Electrical Shift Lead
HVAC Recruitment Limited
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Job summary
HVAC Recruitment Limited is recruiting an experienced Electrical Shift Lead for a major Wembley venue. You will lead the electrical operation on shift, guide engineers, and manage maintenance and faults across a 24/7, high-demand environment.
The role requires strong leadership, HV exposure, and the ability to resolve technical issues, with training and certification available for HVAP. A competitive salary and overtime are offered within a large, prestigious building services organisation.
Qualifications
- NVQ / City & Guilds Level 3 Electrical Installation or equivalent.
- 18th Edition Wiring Regulations.
- Strong commercial electrical maintenance experience.
- Excellent fault-finding and diagnostic ability.
- Experience working with large building electrical systems.
- Experience supporting or leading other engineers.
- Good understanding of BMS and building controls.
- Strong Health & Safety and safe-isolation knowledge.
- Ability to make technical decisions under shift pressure.
Responsibilities
- Lead electrical engineering activity across the shift.
- Provide technical guidance to electricians and engineers.
- Manage planned and reactive electrical maintenance.
- Respond to faults and escalations.
- Monitor building and plant performance via BMS.
- Ensure SLA-compliant PPM and reactive work.
- Manage electrical isolations and safe systems of work.
- Issue and control permits where appropriate.
- Support emergency response and incidents.
- Supervise specialist contractors.
- Maintain statutory compliance and engineering standards.
- Maintain shift logs and technical docs.
- Support energy-efficiency initiatives.
- Collaborate with other shift leads and technical management.
Skills
Education
Job description
Want to work at one of the UK's most recognisable venues?
We're recruiting an experienced Electrical Shift Lead to join the engineering team responsible for maintaining a major landmark stadium in Wembley.
This is a large, technically demanding, 24/7 environment hosting some of the biggest sporting and entertainment events in the country.
You'll take responsibility for the electrical operation of the building during your shift, leading engineers, dealing with technical escalations and ensuring critical electrical and M&E systems remain safe, compliant and operational.
If you're a technically strong electrician with the experience and capability to lead a shift, the business is prepared to provide the necessary HV training and development.
Your normal rota will be:
4 on, 4 off, 6 on, 4 off, 4 on, 6 off
Working a combination of:
Days: 07:00 - 19:00
Nights: 19:00 - 07:00
There are also regular overtime opportunities.
You'll be the senior electrical presence on your shift and the person engineers turn to when technical issues arise.
Responsibilities will include:
- Leading electrical engineering activity across the shift
- Providing technical support and guidance to electricians, engineers and apprentices
- Managing planned and reactive electrical maintenance
- Responding to faults, incidents and technical escalations
- Monitoring building and plant performance through BMS systems
- Ensuring PPM and reactive work is completed within SLA
- Managing electrical isolations and safe systems of work
- Issuing and controlling permits where appropriately authorised
- Supporting emergency response and incident management
- Supervising specialist contractors
- Ensuring statutory compliance and engineering standards are maintained
- Maintaining accurate shift logs and technical documentation
- Supporting continuous improvement and energy-efficiency initiatives
- Working closely with other shift leads and the wider technical management team
This isn't simply an electrician position with a Lead title.
You'll need to be comfortable being the go-to technical person on shift, diagnosing problems, making decisions and supporting less experienced engineers.
You'll need:
- NVQ / City & Guilds Level 3 Electrical Installation or equivalent
- 18th Edition Wiring Regulations
- Strong commercial electrical maintenance experience
- Excellent fault-finding and diagnostic ability
- Experience working with large building electrical systems
- Experience supporting or leading other engineers
- Good understanding of BMS and associated building controls
- Strong Health & Safety and safe-isolation knowledge
- The confidence to make technical decisions during a shift
- Good communication and leadership skills
We're keen to hear from experienced electrical engineers and electrical shift leads who have worked around HV systems but haven't yet obtained full HVAP status.
For the right person, training and certification can be provided.
Candidates could currently be working as:
Electrical Shift Lead | Electrical Shift Engineer | Lead Electrical Engineer | HVAP Engineer | Electrical Supervisor | Critical Services Engineer | Senior Electrical Engineer
Experience within any of the following would be particularly relevant:
- Large commercial buildings
- Stadiums or major venues
- Hospitals
- Airports
- Data centres
- Critical environments
- Large corporate estates
- 24/7 engineering operations
Data-centre experience is absolutely relevant, but this role needs someone who is interested in the wider building-services environment rather than someone who only wants to remain within data centres.
There aren't many electrical maintenance jobs where you can genuinely say you're responsible for helping keep one of Britain's most famous buildings operational.
You'll get:
- Salary up to £60,000
- Regular overtime opportunities
- Continental shift pattern with substantial periods away from work
- Private Medical Insurance
- Pension with employer contribution
- Life Assurance
- Sick Pay
- Personal Wellbeing and Volunteer Days
- Hybrid / Electric Vehicle salary-sacrifice scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Flexible benefits including dental insurance, gym membership, travel insurance and Cycle to Work
- Fully supported technical training and development
- Opportunity to gain HV Authorised Person qualifications
- Long-term career opportunities within a major UK engineering and facilities-services organisation
If you're a strong commercial electrician or electrical shift engineer ready to take genuine technical responsibility for a shift, we'd like to hear from you.
Existing HVAP status is desirable, but don't rule yourself out if you haven't got it.
If you've got the electrical knowledge, leadership ability and the right attitude, the technical training can be provided.
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