Engineering Team Lead Location: James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, TS4 3BW Salary: £47,900per annum Schedule: Full Time, Permanent (37.5 hours per week) 8-week cycle working a mixture of days and nights (07:00 - 19:00 and 19:00 to 07:00) Ready to impact a better future? As an Engineering Team Lead in our Estates and Maintenance Service, you’ll help us keep essential engineering services running smoothly across the hospital estate. Your work will support a safe, well‑maintained environment that directly affects patient experience and community wellbeing. You’ll play a key role in ensuring our engineering services, trades colleagues, and maintenance activity all run efficiently and safely. You’ll guide colleagues, support improvements, and help us deliver a service that makes a positive, lasting impact. What you’ll do as an Engineering Team Lead You’ll be entrusted to: Supervise and support the daily work of maintenance colleagues and specialist subcontractors. Plan, allocate, oversee, and implement planned and reactive maintenance across engineering services, plant, and equipment. Maintain accurate records and ensure full compliance with health, safety, and environmental standards. Provide technical guidance in your core trade and help develop and train colleagues. Assist with costing, resourcing, and assessing minor works and life‑cycle schemes, as well as supporting stores with bespoke materials and stock. Does this sound like you? You’ll be a great fit for this role if you have: An NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent) in a relevant engineering trade, plus 18th Edition IEE Regulations. Experience supervising colleagues in a building services or engineering environment. Strong technical knowledge across key building services areas such as control engineering, medical gases, building fabric, or mechanical/electrical systems. Good computer literacy and familiarity with facilities management systems. A collaborative, customer‑focused approach, with the ability to work under pressure and adapt to changing priorities. Vetting and checks: A Standard DBS check will be carried out for this position. This includes spent and unspent convictions, cautions, reprimands, and warnings as permitted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. An Occupational Health Questionnaire will also be completed so we can ensure you have the necessary support to perform your duties. Discover all you need to keep growing We’re one of the top 1% of international employers, so you can have confidence you’ll be part of a highly supportive culture with leaders you can count on to help you achieve your goals. From mentoring and training to our focus on internal progression, we’re proud to offer clear development opportunities – and the support and tools to help you seize them. What we offer: Holidays: 28 days plus bank holidays (and the option to buy up to five additional leave days each year) Pension: Up to 6% contributory pension scheme Training and development: Over 1,100 internal courses available, funding for qualifications and apprenticeships (including L3 Team Leader and L5 Operations Manager apprenticeships), mentoring opportunities, and a focus on internal progression Health and wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme, Bupa Anytime Healthline, wellbeing app, 30% off at Serco‑managed leisure centres, and 24/7 access to a virtual GP service Discounts: Discounts across around 1,000 retailers, from food and clothing to days out, entertainment and travel Charity: Paid volunteering day, tax‑free charitable giving through Payroll Giving Scheme, donate your pennies from your monthly pay to the Serco People Fund Charity Employee networks: Our networks support inclusion and connection by providing spaces for collaboration, learning, and belonging. They represent and empower all our colleagues including LGBTQIA employees, women, parents and carers, people with disabilities, veterans, and people from all cultural backgrounds. Let’s impact a better future, together. Apply today. About Serco At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services. We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world in areas including defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare and citizen services. We are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone. By joining Serco you will have unlimited access to our Global Employee Networks – SercoInspire (Gender), SercoEmbrace (Multicultural), SercoUnlimited (Disability) and In@Serco (LGBT & Networks). Serco Employee Networks, led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging. Apply Please click on the apply button to complete your application. Occasionally we receive a large volume of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment. At Serco, we see people first and foremost for their performance and potential. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates and strongly encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool. We are open to discussions around flexibility and flexible working. We operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas. We are proudly Disability Confident Leader employers and holder of the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview. For help with your application please contact 0345 010 4000. At Serco we support fair access to employment for those with unspent criminal convictions through the ‘Ban the Box’ pledge (some may be exempt due to the nature of the role and the security clearance required). Please contact our recruitment team directly on 0345 010 4000 to discuss.