Mechanical HVAC Building Services Engineer

The Bank exists to ensure monetary stability and to contribute to financial stability. PPSD ensure that the infrastructures required to support the Bank’s critical functions are maintained and enhanced.

Department Overview

Debden ‘Tradeworks’ are a team of Building Services Maintenance Engineers. There are two teams consisting of a Team leader, mechanical, electrical and building technicians responsible for the operations and maintenance of the Debden Printworks. The Tradeworks team have 12 engineers, 2 apprentices, resource planner all reporting to the Building Manager.

The work consists of a mixture of Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM’s) and reactive/ breakdowns working to agreed SLA’s.

The working pattern is Monday to Friday 08.00 until 16.00, with opportunities for overtime.

Job description

Mechanical Maintenance Engineer, responsible for the delivery of planned, preventative and reactive maintenance and project tasks allocated to self, ensuring all work is completed in accordance to agreed methods, risk assessments, SLAs and customer service standards. The role holders will be part of the team delivering electrical, mechanical, and fabric maintenance and project activities across Debden.

Therefore you will be carrying out routines unsupervised (PPM and reactive), diagnose and repair faults on mechanical building services L8, AHU maintenance, fire alarms, remove, lighting testing, lighting repairs, pumps, motors, heating system fault finding and awareness (Heat exchangers, actuators, pipe work).

You will be expected after a short period of training to go onto the teams ‘On-call rota’

Relevant experience should include:

• HVAC/ AHU plant
• Pumps
• Plumbing
• L8 Legionella testing
• PPM & Breakdowns
• Fault finding
• Compressed air and pressure systems– you will be expected after training to be one of the sites Authorised Persons for Pressure Systems

What are we looking for?

• Comfortable carrying out duties independently and unsupervised
• Well presented with good interpersonal skills as this is a client facing role
• Maintenance experience
• Trade trained with at least 3 years experience in building services
• City & Guilds level 3 qualified or equivalent
• Experience of a CAFM system

The Bank values diversity and inclusion – we want to reflect the society we serve better, we want the best people to work for us and we want our workplace to be inclusive. We value all forms of diversity, including but not limited to age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, race, religion and sexual orientation. One way we support diversity and inclusion is through our staff-run networks, which are summarised here.

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The Bank of England is a distinctive institution and our rewards are one of the things that set us apart. As well as enjoying a competitive salary you will work in a collaborative, inclusive environment, with a subsidised restaurant, flexible working opportunities and plenty of wellbeing initiatives.

This specific role offers a Competitive base salary (depending on skills and experience) on a full-time basis.

In addition we also offer a comprehensive benefits package as detailed below. We encourage flexible working & part time working , therefore both salary and associated benefits will be adjusted on a pro-rata basis for part-time colleagues

• A non-contributory, career average pension giving you a guaranteed retirement benefit of 1/95th of your annual salary for every year worked. There is the option to increase your pension (to 1/50th) or decrease (to 1/120th) in exchange for salary through our flexible benefits programme each year.
• A discretionary performance award based on a current award pool.
• A 7% benefits allowance with the option to take as salary or purchase a wide range of flexible benefits. (Note that from April 2023 and for the Benefits year 2023/24, this will increase to 8%)
• 26 days annual leave with option to buy up to 12 additional days through flexible benefits. (Note: effective from April 2023)
• Private medical insurance and income protection.

Employment in this role will be subject to National Security Vetting clearance and the passing of additional Bank security checks in accordance with Bank policy from time to time. Further information of vetting and security clearance requirements for the role will be provided to the successful applicant. Further information about how the Bank processes personal data for these purposes, is set out in the Bank’s Privacy Notice at Privacy and the Bank of England | Bank of England.

The closing date for applications is 4th June 2023