Engineering Manager

Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services; Swindon; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary Finance

MiDeals discounts

Cycle to work

Life cover

Job summary

Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and control all engineering activity across Nationwide's South administration offices, ensuring safe, compliant and resilient operation of critical building services.

You will manage engineering teams and specialists, drive maintenance programmes and ensure uptime and service continuity in a demanding 24/7 environment. This role offers development and progression within a market-leading facilities management organisation.

Qualifications

• Recognised electrical, mechanical or building services engineering background with relevant technical qualifications.
• Strong experience leading engineering teams in critical environments or 24/7 operations.
• Experience as Authorised Person (AP) or eligible for AP appointment.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day engineering delivery across the South administration site portfolio.
• Manage engineering teams, suppliers and subcontractors with clear priorities and escalation routes.
• Ensure maintenance and compliance activities are delivered to programme with recovery plans as needed.
• Coordinate reactive maintenance and incidents to minimise operational impact.
• Promote safety, compliance, resilience and continuous improvement through governance and risk management.

Skills

Electrical engineering

Mechanical engineering

Building services

Leadership

AP eligibility

Education

Technical qualifications in engineering

Job description

Better places, thriving communities.

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

• 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 Mit\'s comprehensive benefits package, designed to support your lifestyle, wellbeing and financial security.

There\'s a place for you at Mitie, join us today! Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle. We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans. When you join us, we\'ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days\' holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices! We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie). We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there\'s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000! Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK\'s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

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