CHP Supervisor - Internal Applications Only

Campus Experience & Infrastructure (CE&I) is responsible for maintaining and developing one of the UK's most diverse and complex higher education estates. Our Maintenance Operations team manages critical engineering infrastructure across the university, ensuring that essential services remain reliable, resilient and responsive. From district heating and Combined Heat and Power (CHP) systems to reactive maintenance and planned engineering works, our teams play a vital role in supporting teaching, research and student life. If you're looking for a role where your technical expertise has a real impact every day, we'd love to hear from you., This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced maintenance professional to step into a leadership role within one of London's most complex engineering environments. As Maintenance and Operations Supervisor (CHP), you'll lead a team of up to 20 skilled operatives responsible for maintaining critical mechanical and electrical infrastructure across UCL's estate. You'll oversee the safe and effective operation of our district heating network, Combined Heat and Power (CHP) installations and steam systems, ensuring essential services continue to support a world-leading university. Working closely with the Critical Services Manager and wider Maintenance Operations teams, you'll plan and prioritise maintenance activity, coordinate reactive and planned works, manage permits, oversee health and safety compliance and provide technical leadership across a varied portfolio of buildings. This is a hands-on supervisory role where no two days are the same. You'll balance operational delivery with people management, resource planning, customer engagement and continuous improvement, helping to drive high standards of maintenance, safety and service across the campus. Please note that this role is open for applications from internal staff only.

You'll be an experienced maintenance supervisor or team leader with a recognised trade qualification and a strong background in mechanical and electrical building services. You will have experience leading operational maintenance teams, planning workloads, managing priorities and supporting staff performance within a busy engineering environment. You'll be confident making decisions under pressure, diagnosing technical issues and ensuring work is delivered safely, efficiently and to a consistently high standard. You'll also bring:

• Experience supervising reactive and planned maintenance activities within a complex estate or similar environment.
• A strong understanding of building services, plant operation and maintenance, including CHP, steam or district heating systems.
• Excellent knowledge of health and safety legislation, risk assessments, permits to work and safe systems of work.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to coordinate multiple priorities and respond effectively to operational incidents.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to build positive relationships with colleagues, contractors and customers across the university.
• A proactive, solutions-focused approach and a commitment to delivering an excellent maintenance service.
  
  UCL is one of the world's leading universities, home to more than 50,000 students and 18,000 staff. Behind every lecture, laboratory, library and world-leading research breakthrough is an Estates team committed to keeping our campuses safe, sustainable and operational around the clock.
  
  Whether you're already supervising critical engineering services or looking to take the next step into a larger, more complex environment, this is an opportunity to develop your career while helping maintain one of the UK's leading university estates.
What we offer As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:
• 41 Days holiday (including 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women. You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here : https://www.ucl.ac.uk/equality-diversity-inclusion/ Available documents