Maintenance Team Leader

The role involves hands-on maintenance delivery, coordination of on-shift activities, and monitoring of site performance and asset condition to maintain infrastructure availability and reliability. The Team Leader provides technical leadership, supports operational continuity, and drives high standards of performance, safety, and customer service.

This role operates on a rotating shift pattern and reports to the Operations or Engineering Manager, acting as a peer to the Data Centre Engineering Supervisor.

Core Skills (Required)

- Strong written and verbal communication skills across diverse stakeholder groups.

- Collaborative leadership style with the ability to motivate, develop, and support teams.

- Strong problem-solving capability and continuous improvement mindset.

- Ability to make sound leadership decisions in operational and high-pressure environments.

- Lead by example, providing guidance, support, and mentoring to all site engineering teams.

Qualifications

- Recognised technical qualification in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering (e.g, NVQ Level, City & Guilds, BTEC, or equivalent).

- Authorised Person / AP12 / AP15 or equivalent (Electrical) certification, or demonstrable experience operating as an AP under a formal Safety Rules system.

- IT literate, including MS Office, CMMS/CAFM systems.

- Desired management level training in leading and motivating teams.

- IOSH Working Safely (Desirable)

- Experience (Desired)

- Minimum 2 years post-qualification experience, including proven leadership capabilities.

- Experience working in critical environments (data centre, hospital, pharmaceutical, utilities, or similar).

- Experience operating in customer-facing roles and resolving technical problems in high-pressure environments.

- Understanding of safe systems of work and able to evidence the implementation of these in previous roles (PTW, RAMS, Change Management etc.).

- Strong knowledge of BMS, PPM, CAFM, and Change Management processes.

- Knowledge of and experience working to international HSE standards.

- Knowledge of safe electrical and mechanical practices in line with regulatory standards.

- Experience maintaining HVAC systems, chillers, cooling towers, low/medium voltage electrical systems, UPS, generators, and associated plant.

- Strong troubleshooting and repair experience of critical building infrastructures.

- Competence following documented procedures and maintaining accurate records in a Service Desk/CMMS system.