Engineering Shift Lead
This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
The Vacancy
The Engineering Shift Lead will provide leadership for the shift team and through them safely deliver a service of excellent value, ensuring that everything works when it needs to and experiences minimal downtime
Main Tasks and Responsibilities:
- To undertake a supervisory role in terms of team leadership, technical
- Authority, training and performance management, ensuring high quality of work from the team.
- Assisting in the co-ordination of contractors in response to scheduled works & emergencies using appropriate working systems e.G. Documented escalation procedures. Deputising for other members of the team during absences is expected.
- Ensure shift based personnel and sub contract staff undertake works in accordance with safe working practices, quality standards and conform to best practice methods.
- Carry out routine and essential planned preventative maintenance tasks as required across LV distribution systems, associated plant and equipment and HVAC mechanical cooling and heating systems as determined by the concept systems work orders, in a safe, efficient and effective manner. Carry out isolation of plant and systems in accordance with safety requirements.
- Investigate faults, identify root causes of faults and prepare accurate and timely reports on plant and equipment failures and communicate findings with all relevant stakeholders.
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of the building layout, function and complexities through developed practices through continuous assessment, staff training and personal development.
- To assist with various ad hoc duties as reasonably required from time to time.
- Pay due care and attention to health and safety procedures and
- Recommendations both on and off site to ensure the safety of yourself, your team and others.
- Ensure health and safety legislative requirements are met such as DSE assessment and health & safety awareness and ensure your shift are adequately trained for the tasks they carry out.
- Shall not undertake any tasks or functions that will endanger self or others and shall ensure that any unsafe acts that are witnessed are challenged immediately.
- Ensure any hazards or unsafe acts are reported through the accident and safety reporting scheme and to the relevant managers.
- To undertake any training required as relevant to job role
- Performance manage your team reports (engineers & technicians)
- Yearly review, full records are kept and training log and personal development plans are kept up to date/actioned
- Setting and agreeing performance measures
- Spending time with team reports ensuring performance measures are meaningful, relevant, understood and met
- Listening to the team and working to ensure issues are logged and resolved in the spirit of continuous improvement
- Site governance responsibilities outside of operational hours – ensuring, where possible, that contractors comply with the airports requirements and standards and that works are done in a way that does not pose a risk to our asset or operation.
- Ensure you and your shift follow the concept process and provide all relevant and correct data for each job/task as required by concept.
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement within your shift.
- Work in partnership with other shift leads so as to achieve a consistent and efficient operational output.
The Lead Engineer will liaise with:
- Head of Contracts - Contractor or 3rd party maintenance issues/updates.
- Head of Asset Integration - Technical – mechanical/electrical authority and steer - Input on future asset design - Input on current asset optimisation - Updates on new asset integration
- Head of Works governance and project delivery. Visibility of contractors on site - Projects / works handover
Key Competencies:
- Extensive experience in building services engineering
- Excellent technical (HVAC and critical engineering plant and systems)
- Experience in customer facing environment.
Qualifications:
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:
- City & Guilds, BTEC or NVQ 3 in engineering related subject
- General education to ‘O’ level, GCSE level standard
ATTRIBUTES:
Delivering Quality Service:
- To monitor and uphold a high quality of service and products to clients.
- Manages time, plans and organises work tasks, monitors and meets deadlines.
- Keeps documentation orderly enough for others to be able to take the work on.
- Handles multiple priorities at one time
- Adapts approach and shows flexibility when priorities change unexpectedly
- Promote team ethic in both the shifts and the wider function.
Leadership:
- Gives clear directions, positive and constructive feedback, in particular
- Acts as an advisor to new team members
- Gives timely feedback to others
- Dynamic, highly motivated and strong team player
- Ability to relate and resolve practical issues
Problem Solving:
- Analyses problems, identifies core issues, investigates, evaluates and integrates information.
- Proposes solutions which solve the core problem or issue
- Evaluates a situation or data based upon the facts, not just upon opinions
- Identifies information gaps and seeks additional information if necessary
Feedback and Learning:
- Continuously learns from experiences. Seek out feedback and development opportunities. Build awareness of strengths and development needs. Share knowledge and experiences with others.
- Proactively evaluates own skills and knowledge
- Identifies own strengths and areas for development
- Asks for and accepts feedback about own performance in the job
- Willingly takes on and learns new skill
- Shares knowledge and experience
- Builds upon and learns from others
Working Hours and Conditions:
- Shift work
- 42 hour week
- On occasion, you will be required to work outside of the stated hours and days.
Benefits:
- Free onsite parking
- Access to discounted Private Medical Insurance for you and immediate family
- Medicash Cash plan
- On site Physiotherapist
- Discounted Gym Membership at many local facilities
- Staff discounts at most of retailers on site & some local restaurants & hotels
- Enrolment into company AE pension scheme
- Access to Salary sacrifice pension scheme
- Bereavement Counselling
- Cycle 2 Work salary sacrifice scheme
- Hastee Pay Advances
- 25 Days Annual leave
- LCY Central discount website
- Annual performance related bonus
- Annual Season Ticket Loan
- Holiday Buy scheme (Ability to purchase up to 1 weeks A/L per year)
- Access to Salary Sacrifice Car leasing Scheme
The Company
London City Airport is one of the largest private sector employment sites in the London Borough of Newham. We offer a wide range of interesting and challenging career opportunities for the local community.
With over 2,000 employees here, working either directly for London City Airport Limited or for one of our concession partners, airlines, or other business partners on site, the scope for career satisfaction and progression is huge.
London City Airport is an Inclusive Employer.
At London City Airport we respect and celebrate each other’s individual differences. We embrace all backgrounds and abilities of all team members and we work closely with our Inclusion Group A Voice for all to ensure we are an inclusive workplace.
Please note that we only ask candidates to go through the necessary security checks (Criminal Record Checks or CRC) once a position has been offered. If you are approached by a third-party site offering to manage the process for you, please ignore it.
London City Airport Ltd is not currently delivering a Graduate Training Programme but we do run a Work Experience Programme. Please click here to find out more.
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Location
As the only airport actually in London, London City Airport is less than a mile from the world-class events venue ExCeL London; three miles from Canary Wharf and six miles from the City of London.
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