Estates Engineering Manager

Royal Academy Of Dance; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent arts organization based in Covent Garden seeks an experienced Engineering Manager to join its Estates and Facilities team. The role involves overseeing the maintenance and security of its historic and complex buildings, ensuring statutory compliance and delivering projects on time and within budget. Strong project and people management skills are critical. The organization values diversity in its hiring and encourages applicants from all backgrounds to apply.

Qualifications

• Exceptional track record in a similar managerial role.
• Detailed knowledge of demands of large complex public buildings.
• Experience in maintaining historic and heritage buildings.

Responsibilities

• Manage Estates team and service providers.
• Ensure Health & Safety and compliance duties are met.
• Deliver projects to budget and deadlines.

Skills

Project management skills

People management skills

Knowledge of statutory compliance

Ability to react under pressure

Education

Degree qualified engineer/HNC/HND

Job description

Permanent Contract
Full time; 40 Hours per week
circa £55,000 - £60,000 per annum dependent on experience
Based in: Covent Garden, London

The Royal Ballet and Opera continues to lead the way in opera, ballet, music and dance both live on stage and through multiple digital platforms, from live streaming to worldwide cinema screenings. Our Covent Garden theatre has been at the heart of London and British cultural life for three centuries. We are home to two world-class Companies:The Royal BalletandThe Royal Opera.

The Royal Opera House describes the place we work, not who we are. The whole is always more than the sum of its parts – we may be a House, but three quarters of our audiences experience what we do outside this building. While our Covent Garden theatre is the nerve centre, the impact and influence of the organisation can be felt in every corner of the country, and around the world.

The role:

The Estates and Facilities team are responsible for the maintenance and security of our sites, with a strong focus on engineering solutions and innovation across all sites. The department is currently in a new period of change and growth, making this a very exciting time to join.

We are now seeking to recruit to the new role of Engineering Manager, working with the Head of Estates Engineering Services in the management of Estates team and service providers, to include engineering and Stage engineering support services and security, ensuring Health & Safety and compliance duties are met and the highest level of customer experience provided.

What you’ll bring:

This role will suit a candidate who has an exceptional, extensive and proven track record in a similar role. You will be able to react quickly to situations, performing consistently under pressure and responding positively to changing circumstances. You will also be able to demonstrate:

• Degree qualified engineer/HNC/HND or proven competence through practical experience
• A detailed knowledge of the working practices and demands of a large complex public building and/or listed building.
• Good working knowledge of statutory compliance within a medium to large, diverse and complex estate.
• Previous knowledge and experience of maintaining buildings of historic, heritage importance.
• Strong project management skills and ability to deliver to budget and deadlines. Track record of taking and accepting responsibility for projects and initiatives.
• People management skills and experience, and the ability to support the team through training and coaching to achieve consistently high standards of performance.

We value the diversity new hires can bring to our workforce. A working knowledge of our repertoire is not essential, but the ability to learn quickly is.

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Closing date for applications: 11:59pm, Tuesday 20th January 2026.

Interviews will be held the week of 2nd February 2026.

To ensure a fair process, late applications will not be considered under any circumstances.

The Royal Ballet and Opera is one of the UK’s leading arts organisations and our aim is to inspire imagination, ignite emotion and make the extraordinary for everyone. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion underpin all that we do. We want our people to be representative of the diversity in the UK. We understand the creativity and innovation that diversity can bring and strive to create an inclusive environment in which everyone can thrive.

We encourage applications from people with a wide range of backgrounds, experiences and skills to join our teams. We particularly welcome applications from those who arefrom a global majority background and/or those who aredisabled,as they are under-represented within our organisation.

We are a Disability Confident Employer, which means that we are actively working to ensure that candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions feel supported, engaged and able to fulfil their potential in the workplace. We will endeavour to offer an interview to candidates who tell us they wish to participate in the scheme and who demonstrate in their application that they meet the essential criteria for the role, though sometimes due to the volume of qualified candidates with declarations this is not possible.

Applicants must have work authorisation for the UK. No agencies.