Electrical Shift Lead

  • Randstad Staffing
  • City, London
  • Dec 05, 2025
Full time Trades & Services

Job Description

Electrical Shift Lead

Location: Central London - Liverpool Street

Salary: £60,000 per annum + Generous overtime (Dependent on qualifications/experience)

Shift Pattern: Continental Shift (7am - 7pm - Days & Nights)

Environment: High-End, high rise tower, commercial Office Space

Are you a qualified and experienced Electrical shift lead looking for a leadership role on a flagship site?

Ideally a current HVAP shift lead, however this site will put you on your HVAP course after passing probation.

Key Responsibilities
  • Carrying out High Voltage (HV) switching operations, isolations, and the implementation of safe systems of work.
  • Issuing permits-to-work, switching schedules, and acting as the senior engineering authority on site.
  • Leading the shift team in responding to all plant failures, emergencies, and critical alarms.
  • Overseeing the completion of planned and reactive maintenance on critical plant, including UPS systems, generators, chillers, CRAC units, and building management systems (BMS).
  • Managing specialist sub-contractors and ensuring their full adherence to site health and safety procedures.
  • Maintaining detailed shift logs, producing incident reports, and ensuring a smooth and comprehensive handover to the incoming shift.
Essential Requirements
  • Proven experience as a Shift Lead or Senior Engineer in a critical environment (e.g., corporate banking, data centre, large commercial building).
  • A recognised electrical qualification (e.g., City & Guilds Level 3 in Electrical Installation or equivalent).

Randstad CPE values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.

Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.

Skills

ability to follow job and safetry instructions, assembling furniture, assigning engineers, assisting contracts manager, attend client meetings, boilers, budgets/ wip management, building services, building maintenance, carpentry, carry out reports, changing lamps, client liaison, cleaning skills, closing down jobs, commercial, compliance, concept 500, concept evolution, contractor management, dealing with client and sub contractors, door closers, electrical maintenance, emergency lighting, fire alarms, general administration, geneva, hanging doors, hanging pictures/ noticeboards, h&s, kpi's, maintaining critical plant, maintenance schedules, manage ppm schedule, maximo, mechanical maintenance, office moves, organize sub contract labour, organize permits, organise labour and the procurement of materials and parts, painting and decorating, pipework, planet, p&l responsibility, plumbing, power distribution, ppm, previous cleaning experience, radiators, raising po's, reactive maintenance, reactive & planned maintenance, residential, risk assessments, service charge, showers, sinks, sla's, split systems, supervision of engineers, Team leadership, technical back up, testing and inspection, toilets, unblocking toilets, water treatment, wip reports, woodwork

Qualifications

17th edition, 1st fix, 2nd fix, ABIFM, ACIArb, asta power project, C&G 2391/ 2394/ 2395, C&G carpentry and joinery, C&G level 2 plumbing, C&G mechanical engineering, city & guilds electrical installations, city & guilds bms, city & guilds heating & ventilation, city & guilds pipefitting, city & guilds plumbing, CPCS, CSCS, driving licence, ECS, EHORB, FGAS, first aid, fit to work medical, HHSRS, HNC building services, HNC electrical engineering, HNC mechanical engineering, HNC quantity surveying, HND or HNC building services design, ICES, ICOB, ILM level 3, IOSH, IPAF, JIB Blue, JIB White, JIB Gold, Knowledge of 2D design applications, Knowledge of 3D design applications, L8, level 2 refrigeration air conditioning, LLM, MAPM, MBIFM, MICE, Microsoft Project, MIStructE, MRICS, NEBOSH, NVQ, NVQ level 2, NVQ level 3, NVQ level 7, primavera 6, PTS, RICS, Royal Town Planning Institute, shuttering, roofing, SMSTS, Software, SSSTS

Education

asset degree, BA hons architecture, BEng civil engin