Maintenance Technician, Debden

Loughton, United Kingdom Bank of England Job Description

Location: Debden

Role Description

The scope of services to be provided by the engineering Shift Technician are as follows but are not exhaustive.

• Responsible for the delivery of planned, preventative tasks working within our Plan on Intelligent Work Management System (IWMS).
• Responsible for supporting reactive maintenance tasks allocated via the IWMS.
• Update both planned and reactive maintenance tasks within the IWMS system.
• Undertake daily & periodic building system & equipment checks to maintain installed systems operational 24/7/365.
• Attend to engineering faults and failures to set priority response and fix times, assuring safe working environments and maintaining business operations with minimal down time experienced.
• Undertake routine maintenance tasks across critical; essential and non-essentials building systems and assets across HVAC; electrical; public health; fire and all other building engineering systems.
• Deliver a proactive approach to engineering maintenance seeking to bring innovation and ideas to the attention of management.
• Undertake statutory testing across life safety systems, critical assets and other building systems as directed via the IWMS system.
• Across office and engineering environments, undertake measurements and surveys as directed.
• Support statutory testing of all Life Safety systems across the portfolio.
• Support specialist OEM contractors undertaking system and asset periodic maintenance, reactive and emergency call-out tasks.
• Provide data & information to facilitate the Shift Leader to produce their daily shift hand-over log and report.
• Participate as an Authorised Person (LV) - Electrical and/or Mechanical to support the 24/7 operations of the Bank while working within the banks SSoW.
• Complete all allocated annual training and performance objectives.
• Act as a Health & Safety ambassador across all areas of the properties engaged in delivering your role and to support the safe working environment of others.
• Ensure all assigned work is completed in accordance with agreed methods, risk assessments, SLAs and customer service standards.
• Contribute to encouraging embedding a strong team working and continuous improvement environment.
• Participate in the weekly On-Call technical support rota to support incident response. (TBC)
• As directed conduct incident management and recovery exercises across engineering systems.

Person Description

Minimum Criteria:

• Minimum City & Guilds Level 3 (or transferable) within a relevant engineering subject
• IOSH Operating Safely qualification.
• Experience of IWMS planned and reactive maintenance tools using handheld HMI.
• Experience operating and maintaining of HVAC; BMS; Electrical; Public Health and Life Safety Systems.
• Demonstrable Authorised Person experience at HV or LV system operation.
• Experience of operating with a defined Safe Systems of Work (SSoW).
• Knowledge of statutory and compliance obligations relevant to engineering systems.
• Ability to absorb and follow prescribed Standard and Emergency Operating Procedures (SOP's & EOP's)
• Ability to read and understand complicated mechanical, electrical, control and public health drawings.

Essential Criteria:

• Ability to understand the inter-dependencies across building services and the risks of delivering maintenance within operational buildings.
• Excellent communicator both verbal and written form.
• Ability to make judgments based on evaluating information against defined procedures, contributing to decision-making and continuous improvement.
• Ability to receive and convey regular information, including sharing and reporting information.
• Work collaboratively to leverage the knowledge, skills and experiences of the team.
• Strong commitment to working flexibly and effectively with a range of staff and contractors.
• Maintains high standards in all work undertaken.
• Prioritisation/Time Management with an ability to prioritise workload and manage time effectively.
• Maintain resilience with an ability to work under pressure.
• Deliver engineering maintenance through excellent customer service standards.

Our Approach to Inclusion

The Bank values diversity, equity and inclusion. We play a key role in maintaining monetary and financial stability, and to do that effectively, we believe we need a workforce that reflects the society we serve.

At the Bank of England, we want all colleagues to feel valued and respected, so we're working hard to build an inclusive culture which supports people from all backgrounds and communities to be at their best at work. We celebrate all forms of diversity, including (but not limited to) age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation and socioeconomic status. We believe that it's by drawing on different perspectives and experiences that we'll continue to make the best decisions for the public.

We welcome applications from individuals who work flexibly, including job shares and part time working patterns. We've also partnered with external organisations to support us in making adjustments for candidates and employees in the recruitment process where they're needed.

From 1st October 2026, we expect all our colleagues to spend a minimum of 50% of their working time in the office per month. This is to capitalise on the benefits of working together in person across teams, while maintaining the flexibility offered by home working. Subject to that minimum requirement, individuals and managers should work together to find what works best for them and their team.

Finally, we're proud to be a member of the Disability Confident Scheme. If you wish to apply under this scheme, you should check the box in the 'Candidate Personal Information' under the 'Disability Confident Scheme' section of the application.

Salary and Benefits Information

We encourage flexible working, part time working and job share arrangements. Part time salary and benefits will be on a pro-rated basis as appropriate.

The salary for this role is £32,220. In addition, we also offer 8% benefits allowance with the option to take as salary or purchase a wide range of flexible benefits

We also offer a comprehensive benefits package as detailed below:

• Currently a non-contributory, career average pension giving you a guaranteed retirement benefit of 1/80th of your annual salary for every year worked. There is the option to increase your pension (to 1/65th) or decrease (to 1/105th) in exchange for salary through our flexible benefits programme each year. The Bank has the discretion to vary standard accrual rates and dial up and dial down rates at any time and to withdraw dial up and dial down options at any time.
• A discretionary performance award based on a current award pool.
• 26 days' annual leave with option to buy up to 12 additional days through flexible benefits.
• Private medical insurance and income protection.

National Security Vetting Process

Employment in this role will be subject to the National Security Vetting clearance process (and typically can take between 6 to 12 weeks post offer) and the passing of additional Bank security checks in accordance with the Bank policy. Further information regarding the vetting and security clearance requirements for the role will be provided to the successful applicant, and information