Technical Services Manager - CNI

Mitie Group plc.; Warwick; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Mitie is seeking a CNI Technical Services Manager to lead a multi-disciplinary engineering team at a critical national infrastructure site in Warwick. The role focuses on resilience, compliance, and operational continuity within a data-centre operating model while coordinating with the client and contractors.

You will oversee electrical and mechanical infrastructure, safety systems, and risk management, ensuring high standards of engineering practice and continuous improvement in a regulated

Qualifications

• Engineering qualification or equivalent technical experience.
• Experience leading engineering teams in critical or highly regulated environments.
• Knowledge of safety, statutory compliance and risk management in engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a multi-disciplinary engineering team with high safety and compliance standards.
• Oversee planned and reactive maintenance, remedial works, projects and contractor activities.
• Provide technical oversight of critical electrical and mechanical infrastructure (power, cooling, UPS, standby generation).
• Ensure Safe Systems of Work, permits, isolations and higher-risk engineering activities are effectively managed.
• Work with the client to manage technical risk and drive continuous improvement.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Safety & compliance

Client stakeholder management

Education

Engineering qualification or equivalent

Job description

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 a CNI Technical Services Manager to join our team at Warwick, supporting a critical national infrastructure environment aligned to a data centre operating model. You'll lead technical operations across a complex engineering estate where resilience, compliance and operational continuity are at the heart of everything we do.

Role Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a multi-disciplinary engineering team, ensuring high technical, safety and compliance standards.
• Oversee planned and reactive maintenance, remedial works, projects and specialist contractor activities.
• Provide technical oversight of critical electrical and mechanical infrastructure, including power, cooling, UPS and standby generation systems.
• Ensure Safe Systems of Work, permits, isolations and higher-risk engineering activities are effectively managed.
• Work closely with the client to manage technical risk, support incident response and drive continuous improvement.

Relevant engineering qualification or equivalent technical experience within building services, electrical or mechanical engineering.

• Experience leading engineering teams within a critical, highly regulated or operationally complex environment.
• Strong understanding of engineering safety, statutory compliance, Safe Systems of Work and technical risk management.

What We're Looking For

• Experience within critical environments such as CNI, data centres, utilities, telecommunications, defence or energy.
• Ability to build strong relationships and provide clear technical advice to clients and stakeholders.
• Experience managing specialist contractors and maintenance delivery.
• Knowledge of asset lifecycle planning, reliability and operational resilience.
• Understanding of critical infrastructure including HV/LV systems, UPS, cooling, standby generation or BMS would be advantageous.