Engineering Manager

Mitie Group plc.; Swindon; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Mitie is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead day-to-day engineering delivery across the South administration sites, ensuring safe, compliant and resilient operation of critical building services while driving uptime and service continuity.

You will manage engineering teams, suppliers and contractors, enforce maintenance programmes, coordinate reactive work, and foster a culture of safety and continuous improvement within a high-profile facilities management environment.

Qualifications

• Recognised electrical, mechanical or building services engineering background with relevant technical qualifications and operational experience.
• Strong engineering management experience within critical environments or 24/7 settings.
• Experience acting as an Authorised Person (AP) or eligible for AP appointment.
• Understanding of planned and reactive maintenance, safe systems of work, permit controls, and risk management.
• Proven record leading engineering teams and managing contractors in critical environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day engineering delivery across the South administration site portfolio, ensuring availability, reliability and safe operation of critical infrastructure.
• Manage engineering teams, suppliers and subcontractors, providing technical leadership and clear priorities.
• Ensure maintenance programmes, compliance and critical activities are delivered to plan with recovery where needed.
• Coordinate reactive maintenance and incidents, triage faults and minimise operational impact.
• Foster safety, resilience and continuous improvement through governance, risk management and performance monitoring.

Skills

Engineering management

Electrical engineering

Mechanical engineering

Building services

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

ROLE: Engineering Manager
HOURS: Full Time
LOCATION: Swindon

At Mitie, our people are our greatest strength, and our promise is to create a place to work where you can thrive and be your best every day. We're looking for an Engineering Manager who will lead and control all engineering activity across Nationwide's South administration offices, ensuring the safe, compliant and resilient operation of critical building services whilst driving uptime, service continuity and operational resilience.

Role Responsibilities:

• Lead day-to-day engineering delivery across the South administration site portfolio, ensuring the availability, reliability and safe operation of critical infrastructure.
• Manage engineering teams, specialist suppliers and subcontractors, providing technical leadership, clear priorities and effective escalation routes.
• Ensure planned preventative maintenance (PPM), statutory compliance and critical maintenance activities are delivered to programme, with appropriate recovery plans where required.
• Coordinate reactive maintenance and engineering incidents, ensuring faults are triaged, escalated and resolved with minimal impact to operations.
• Drive a strong culture of safety, compliance, resilience and continuous improvement through effective engineering governance, risk management and performance monitoring.

Required Qualifications: Applicants must meet the below defined requirements for the role.

• Recognised electrical, mechanical or building services engineering background, supported by relevant technical qualifications and operational experience.
• Strong engineering management experience within critical environments or similar resilient 24/7 operational settings.
• Experience acting as an Authorised Person (AP), or the competence and eligibility to hold the required AP appointment.
• Strong understanding of planned and reactive maintenance, safe systems of work, permit controls, technical compliance and risk management.
• Proven experience leading engineering teams and managing specialist contractors and suppliers within a critical engineering environment.

What's in it for you?

• Opportunity to lead engineering operations within a high-profile critical facilities environment.
• Ongoing development, training and career progression opportunities within a market-leading facilities management organisation.
• Access to Mitie's comprehensive benefits package, designed to support your lifestyle, wellbeing and financial security.

There's a place for you at Mitie, join us today!