Maintenance Manager

The Management Recruitment Group; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

The Royal Ballet & Opera seeks a Maintenance Manager to lead operational maintenance across its facilities, ensuring compliance and reliability. This diverse role requires substantial experience in building services and a commitment to high-quality service delivery in a dynamic environment. The position offers an excellent opportunity to work at a renowned cultural institution in London.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing planned & reactive maintenance.
• Expertise in delivering services in high public footfall environments.
• Technical support experience for maintenance teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage the operational maintenance team for building services.
• Provide technical support and direction for maintenance operations.
• Support stage engineering contract for stage support services.

Skills

Operational management

Building services knowledge

Reactive maintenance

Planned maintenance

Education

Qualification in building services discipline

Job description

The estate of the Royal Ballet & Opera comprises of three sites: the main site in Covent Garden includes a 2,000+ seated theatre which dates from 1858, and redeveloped stage and newly developed rehearsal rooms, dressing rooms, workshops offices and ancillary spaces seating from a large-scale capital project completed in 1999, and a second theatre and refreshed front of house spaces delivered via the Open Project in 2018. The RBO’s Production Workshop and Costume Centre are located in Thurrock, Essex and a 14,000m2 store in Aberdare, Wales.

Together the facilities enable the organisation to deliver a complex and busy production schedule and support the work of 1,000s staff, artists and creative people to stage opera and ballet to exacting standards.

Reporting to the Head of Estates Engineering Services, the Maintenance Manager is responsible for managing the operational maintenance team to deliver safe, reliable, and compliant operational maintenance of all building services within the Royal Opera House and its subsidiary buildings. You would provide technical support and direction for the maintenance team and external contractors working across all ROH estates in addition to supporting the stage engineering contract for provision of stage support services.

The successful candidate will be qualified in a building services discipline with extensive experience in the management of planned & reactive maintenance. This is a wide-ranging role which will suit professionals with experience across diverse, complex estates who are adept in delivering ‘best in class’ services in similar high public footfall environments.

The candidate briefing pack can be viewed atRoyal Ballet & Opera - Estates Maintenance Manager.

For a confidential discussion contact our advisor at The Management Recruitment Group, Connor Humpage [e-mail]

Applications should consist of a CV and Cover Letter and should be sent to [e-mail]

Closing date for applications is Sunday 6th July 2025

The Royal Ballet and Opera is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment in which everyone can thrive. We welcome applications from those who are currently underrepresented in our workforce; in particular those who are ethnically diverse and/or disabled. As a Disability Confident Employer, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential minimum criteria for our vacancies.

Applicants must have eligibility to work in the UK.