Shift Team Leader in Maintenance and Engineering - Central Services (Mon-Fri role. No shift all[...]

LONDON BASED London Maintenance Team Leader – Day working, Monday to Friday, no shift allowance.

Team Overview

The Property department’s Infrastructure Engineering team maintains, enhances, and supports the bank’s occupied building environment. It provides engineering services for all staff while managing significant annual capital investment, business continuity, health & safety, events, facilities, catering, cleaning, post services, and travel. The mission is to keep the building environment and engineering systems resilient, supporting business as usual. The Engineering team covers three core London properties – the Grade 1 listed Head Office at Threadneedle St and the modern office at 20 Moorgate – plus the printing works at Debden, Essex. All buildings are highly critical with varied critical systems.

Role Responsibilities

• Lead the shift team of multi‑skilled engineering technicians.
• Schedule and allocate planned and reactive tasks across the shift team.
• Serve as the primary engineering shift contact during each shift period.
• Manage administrative tasks such as absence, rota, and overtime for team members.
• Issue and close work permits as required.
• Create and authorise work requests for reactive tasks.
• Collaborate with the Critical Shift Engineer team to conduct monthly systems integration tests.
• Provide end‑of‑shift status reports and transfer responsibilities to the incoming shift leader.
• Deliver planned, preventative tasks within the Planon Intelligent Work Management System (IWMS).
• Support reactive maintenance tasks allocated via the IWMS.
• Update planned and reactive maintenance records in the IWMS.
• Conduct daily and periodic building system and equipment checks to keep systems operational 24/7/365.
• Respond to engineering faults and failures, prioritising response to minimise downtime.
• Perform routine maintenance across HVAC, electrical, public health, fire, and other building systems.
• Drive proactive maintenance initiatives, proposing innovations to management.
• Execute statutory testing across life‑safety systems and other critical assets via the IWMS.
• Perform measurements and surveys as directed in office and engineering environments.
• Support statutory testing of all life‑safety systems across the portfolio.
• Assist specialist OEM contractors with periodic maintenance, reactive, and emergency call‑outs.
• Provide data and information for daily hand‑over logs and reports.
• Act as an Authorised Person (HV/LV) to support 24/7 operations within the bank’s Safe Systems of Work (SSoW).
• Complete all allocated annual training and performance objectives.
• Promote health & safety across all areas of the properties.
• Ensure all work is completed according to methods, risk assessments, SLAs, and customer service standards.
• Encourage a strong team culture and continuous improvement environment.
• Participate in the weekly on‑call technical support rota across all sites.
• Conduct incident management and recovery exercises across engineering systems as directed.

Role Requirements – Minimum Criteria

• Minimum City & Guilds Level 3 (or transferable) in a relevant engineering subject.
• IOSH Managing Safely qualification.
• Experience with IWMS planned and reactive maintenance tools and handheld HM.
• Experience in operating and maintaining HVAC, BMS, electrical, public health, and life‑safety systems.
• Demonstrable authorized person experience in HV and LV system operation.
• Experience working under a defined Safe Systems of Work (SSoW) procedure set.
• Knowledge of statutory and compliance obligations relevant to engineering systems.

Essential Criteria

• People management experience.
• Ability to follow prescribed Standard and Emergency Operating Procedures (SOPs & EOPs).
• Strong technical reading skills for mechanical, electrical, control, and public health drawings.
• Understanding of inter‑dependencies across building services and risks in operational buildings.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Sound judgement based on procedures, contributing to decision‑making and continuous improvement.
• Effective information sharing, reporting, and collaboration with the team.
• Strong commitment to flexible and effective staffing with contractors.
• High standards in all work undertaken.
• Prioritisation and time‑management skills.
• Resilience to work under pressure.
• Ability to deliver engineering maintenance with excellent customer service standards.

Desirable Criteria

• Security Vetting to SC clearance (provided by the bank).

Direct Reports

Up to 7 staff members.

Inclusion Statement

The Bank values diversity, equity and inclusion, striving to build an inclusive culture that reflects society. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and are committed to supporting candidates throughout the recruitment process, including adjustments where needed. We are a member of the Disability Confident Scheme.

Salary and Benefits

£40,160 – £45,180 per annum. Non‑contributory career average pension with guaranteed retirement benefit of 1/80th of annual salary per year worked, with flexible adjustment options. Discretionary performance award based on a current award pool. 8% benefits allowance, transferable to salary or flexible benefits. 26 days annual leave, with the option to purchase up to 12 additional days via flexible benefits. Private medical insurance and income protection.

National Security Vetting Process

Employment is subject to the National Security Vetting clearance process, typically taking 6–12 weeks post‑offer, and additional bank security checks. Further details will be provided to the successful applicant.

Equal Opportunity

The Bank of England welcomes applications from all candidates and is an equal opportunity employer, providing equal opportunity to all irrespective of race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.