Lead Shift Engineer - Data Centre & Critical Environments

CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS); Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

CBRE Global Workplace Solutions, a leading global provider of integrated facilities and corporate real estate management, is recruiting a Lead Shift Engineer to join the team in London. The successful candidate will apply a risk-focused maintenance approach to plant and systems in data centres and general office environments.

The role requires managing time, budgets, and compliance while ensuring client SLAs are met and critical documentation is maintained.

Qualifications

• Electrician with Level 3 qualification and relevant certifications.
• 18th Edition wiring regulations – essential.
• Experience in operating data centres/critical environments – desirable.
• Knowledge of emergency response/standby/call out activities and protocols.
• Understand the monitoring of utilities and environmental programmes.
• IOSH or equivalent H&S training.
• Excellent contract/supplier management skills.
• Excellent facilitation, communication skills at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Manage own time and allocate works to other team members.
• Manage cost related to delivery of maintenance activities (specialist and self-perform).
• Ensuring all client services, computer rooms, data networks, manufacturing and revenue earning services meet client requirements or appropriate SLAs.
• Operate dilapidation and update plans relating to critical environments.
• Operate change control process covering business critical areas.
• Provide technical management reports as required.
• Provide emergency response standby/call-out.
• Monitor utilities management and environmental programmes.
• Support critical environment related technical audits.
• Support cost-effective procurement of engineering maintenance services.
• Operate within annual engineering budgets for the maintenance and repair of the services.
• Responsibility for ensuring all critical related engineering maintenance documentation/records are kept in clearly identified and retrievable systems.
• Advise the Facilities Management Team of changes in critical environment requirements.
• Plan Statutory Compliance Maintenance and Testing and report as required the Statutory Compliance Audit Report to the Technical Services Manager.
• Ensure all PPM's and Critical Facility PPM's are carried out to schedule.
• Monitor and analyse environmental conditions, review the loading and working conditions of critical equipment regularly.
• Liaise with the CBRE EHS specialist to ensure audit compliance at all times.
• Ensure maintenance is carried out in line with CBRE H&S procedures, using the permit to work system where applicable and action improvements identified during the building and workplace inspections and reviews.
• Escalate urgent issues identified through to the Technical Services Manager.

Skills

Level 3 electrician

18th Edition

Data centres

Emergency response

Utilities monitoring

H&S training

Contract management

Communication skills

Water hygiene knowledge

Tools

BMS Controls

HVAC systems

UPS systems

MS Office

Job description

CBRE Global Workplace Solutions, a leading global provider of integrated facilities and corporate real estate management, is recruiting a Lead Shift Engineer to join the team in London. The successful candidate will apply a risk-focused maintenance approach to plant and systems in data centres and general office environments.

The role requires managing time, budgets, and compliance while ensuring client SLAs are met and critical documentation is maintained.