Shift Charge Engineer in MAINT & ENG - HEAD OFFICE
Location - London
The Bank of England is the UK's central bank, our mission is to deliver monetary and financial stability for the British people.
The Bank of England is a diverse organisation with each of its 4,000+ people are committed to public service and dedicated to promoting the good of the people of the United Kingdom by supporting monetary and financial stability.
The role of the banks Property department through its Infrastructure Engineering team, is to maintain, enhance and support the occupied building environment, and to provide excellent engineering services for all Bank staff. In addition to maintaining and supporting the Bank's primary business function, The Property team has responsibility for significant annual capital investment, supports business continuity, strategic health & safety management, internal & external events, general building facilities (switchboard, help desk and reception), catering, cleaning, post services and travel team whilst ensuring value for money is achieved in all Bank wide procurements.
The Property department's overall mission is to maintain, enhance and protect the Bank's building environment including its engineering systems and to provide resilient services to maintain business as usual functionality.
The Engineering team comprises <56 FTE and covers the Bank's (x3) core properties located in London & Debden (Essex). The London properties, comprise of (x2) properties; the Banks grade 1 listed Head Office at Threadneedle St and a more traditional modern office building at 20 Moorgate. Our property located at Debden is the Banks print works. All (x3) buildings are highly critical to the Banks operations and possess various levels of critical systems to support those operations.
The Engineering team is responsible for maintaining and operating all installed engineering systems, providing reliable and resilient operations 24x7x365 across office, data centre, front/back office and production environments, consequently a wider breadth of engineering exposure exists.
- Critical Shift Engineer
The scope of services to be provided by the engineering critical shift engineer are as follows but are not exhaustive.
- Issue and closure of various work Permits etc as required.
- Raising of work requests and/or authorisations for reactive type of works.
- Delivery of relevant statutory maintenance requirements.
- Support the Engineering Shift Leads to conduct monthly system/s integration tests.
- Responsible for maintaining critical system resilience and asset availability 24/7/365.
- Undertake planned critical and preventative maintenance tasks working within our Planon Intelligent Work Management System (IWMS).
- Responsible for supporting critical system/asset reactive maintenance tasks allocated via the IWMS.
- Update both planned and reactive critical maintenance tasks within the IWMS system.
- Undertake daily & periodic building system & equipment checks to maintain installed systems operational 24/7/365.
- Manage critical engineering faults and failures to set priority response and fix times, assuring safe working environments and maintaining business operations with minimal down time experienced.
- Undertake routine inspections & reports across critical and essential building systems and assets across HVAC; electrical; public health; fire and all other building engineering systems.
- Deliver a proactive approach to engineering maintenance seeking to bring innovation and ideas to the attention of management.
- Manage statutory testing across life safety systems, critical assets and other building systems as directed via the IWMS system.
- Across office and engineering environments, validate and manage measurements and surveys as directed.
- Support and coordinate statutory testing of all Life Safety systems across the portfolio.
- Support specialist OEM contractors undertaking critical system and asset periodic maintenance, reactive and emergency call-out tasks.
- Participate as an Authorised Person (HV/LV) - Electrical and/or Mechanical to support the 24/7 operations of the Bank while working within the banks SSoW.
- Complete all allocated annual training and performance objectives.
- Act as a Health & Safety ambassador across all areas of the properties engaged in delivering your role and to support the safe working environment of others.
- Ensure all assigned work is completed in accordance with agreed methods, risk assessments, SLAs and customer service standards.
- Contribute to encouraging embedding a strong team working and continuous improvement environment.
- Participate in the weekly On-Call technical support rota to support incident response across all (x3) sites.
- As directed conduct incident management and recovery exercises across engineering systems.
Minimum Criteria
- Minimum City & Guilds Level 4 (or transferable) within a relevant engineering subject
- IOSH Managing Safely qualification.
- Security Vetting to SC Clearance - will be provided by the Bank.
- Experience of IWMS planned and reactive maintenance tools using handheld HMI.
- Experience operating and maintaining of HVAC; BMS; Electrical; Public Health and Life Safety Systems
Essential Criteria
- Demonstrable Authorised Person experience at HV and LV system operation.
- Experience of operating with a defined Safe Systems of Work (SSoW).
- Knowledge of statutory and compliance obligations relevant to engineering systems.
- Ability to develop, absorb and follow prescribed Standard and Emergency Operating Procedures (SOP's & EOP's)
- Ability to read and understand complicated mechanical, electrical, control and public health drawings.
- Ability to understand the inter-dependencies across building services and the risks of delivering maintenance within operational buildings.
- Excellent communicator both verbal and written form.
- Ability to make judgments based on evaluating information against defined procedures, contributing to decision-making and continuous improvement.
- Ability to receive and convey regular information, including sharing and reporting information.
- Work collaboratively to leverage the knowledge, skills and experiences of the team.
- Strong commitment to working flexibly and effectively with a range of staff and contractors.
- Maintains high standards in all work undertaken.
- Prioritisation/Time Management with an ability to prioritise workload and manage time effectively.
- Maintain resilience with an ability to work under pressure.
- Deliver engineering maintenance through excellent customer service standards.
Desirable Criteria
- Previous experience of working on a 24/7 shift, covering critical systems and operations.
- Currently a non-contributory, career average pension giving you a guaranteed retirement benefit of 1/80th of your annual salary for every year worked. There is the option to increase your pension (to 1/65th) or decrease (to 1/105th) in exchange for salary through our flexible benefits programme each year. The Bank has the discretion to vary standard accrual rates and dial up and dial down rates at any time and to withdraw dial up and dial down options at any time.
- A discretionary performance award based on a current award pool.
- An 8% benefits allowance with the option to take as salary or purchase a wide range of flexible benefits.
- 26 days' annual leave with option to buy up to 12 additional days through flexible benefits.
- Private medical insurance and income protection.
The Bank of England welcomes applications from all candidates, but as a UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) approved sponsor, we have a responsibility to comply with the Immigration Rules and guidance. As such, our ability to employ individuals who require sponsorship for immigration purposes is limited. The Bank cannot guarantee that you and / or the role you are applying for will be eligible for sponsorship and that any application made to UKVI will be successful. Eligibility will therefore be considered on a case by case basis.
The Application ProcessImportant: Please ensure that you complete the 'work history' section and answer ALL the application questions fully. All candidate applications are anonymised to ensure that our hiring managers will not be able to see your personal information, including your CV, when reviewing your application details at the screening stage. It's therefore really important that you fill out the work history and application form questions, as your answers will form a critical part of the initial selection process. The assessment process will comprise of two interview stages. This role closes on 31/08/25 Please apply online, ensuring that you complete your work history and answer ALL the application questions fully and in detail as your application will not be considered if all mandatory questions are not fully completed.Recommended Jobs
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