Engineering Shift

The Engineering Shift will provide support to the Shift Lead 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 proactively support the Shift Lead and provide technical authority and training whilst ensuring a high standard of work.
• Deputising for the Shift lead during absences is expected.
• Assisting the shift lead in the co-ordination of contractors in resect of reactive, pre planned maintenance and ad hoc works.
• Ensure shift based personnel and contractors 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,
• 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 follow the Concept process and provide all relevant and correct data for each job/task as required by Concept.
• Support a culture of continuous improvement within your shift.
• Work in partnership with other shifts so as to achieve a consistent and efficient operational output.
• Not to undertake any tasks or functions that will compromise the security of self, others or the organisation and to ensure that any acts that are witnessed that appear to breach security procedures are challenged immediately.

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

Performance Measures:

• PPMs are delivered to schedule with 100% completion of statutory and mandatory tasks completed on time.
• Health and safety reactives are made safe within 4 hours and fully remediated as soon as possible thereafter.
• No audit non compliances for Concept data and hard copy reports.

Key Competencies:

• Minimum of 5 years experience in Building Services Engineering and excellent technical (HVAC and critical engineering plant and systems)
• Experience with operating in critical facilities or environments.

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:

• Able to cover for Shift Lead when required
• 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 as dictated by the engineering shift rota.
• Flexibility in hours worked is required 1 hour paid lunch break per shift is included and must be taken at a time suitable to the operation.
• 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

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.