Engineering Operations Manager (1MLP)

Company: Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services
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Location: London
Job Description:

London Bridge | Prestigious Corporate Environment

We are recruiting for a standout opportunity for an experienced Engineering Operations Manager to take full ownership of engineering services at a high-profile, multi-floor corporate headquarters in London Bridge.

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Engineering Operations Manager

London Bridge | Prestigious Corporate Environment

We are recruiting for a standout opportunity for an experienced Engineering Operations Manager to take full ownership of engineering services at a high-profile, multi-floor corporate headquarters in London Bridge.

This is a senior leadership role where you’ll lead from the front—driving performance, establishing credibility, and shaping the future of engineering delivery on a flagship site.

The Role

As Engineering Operations Manager, you will be accountable for the safe, compliant, and efficient delivery of all building engineering and property maintenance operations, ensuring exceptional service standards in a prestige environment.

You Will

  • Lead and manage a multi-skilled on-site engineering team (including engineers, fabric staff, and an apprentice) operating across a 7-day rota
  • Take full ownership of engineering operations, service delivery, and performance on site
  • Deliver planned and reactive maintenance programmes, ensuring compliance with statutory and contractual obligations
  • Drive KPI performance, WIP control, and continuous improvement initiatives
  • Act as the key operational interface with the client, maintaining strong stakeholder relationships
  • Lead on health & safety, risk management, and incident response across all engineering activities
  • Manage budgets, costs, and commercial controls, ensuring transparency and efficiency

The Environment

  • Prestigious, corporate HQ setting with a strong client relationship in place
  • Long-term site commitment with planned major refurbishment in the coming years
  • High visibility role with significant autonomy and responsibility from day one

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for a confident, experienced leader who can step in and make an immediate impact:

Essential

  • Proven experience managing engineering or building operations in a complex commercial or corporate environment
  • Strong people leadership skills with experience managing technical teams
  • Solid understanding of PPM, reactive maintenance, compliance, and H&S
  • Excellent stakeholder engagement and client-facing capability
  • Engineering background (HV knowledge highly advantageous)
  • Track record of delivering KPIs and improving performance

Desirable

  • Experience within integrated FM or contracted services environments
  • Familiarity with CAFM systems and asset management tools
  • Relevant engineering or facilities management qualifications

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.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Marie Hyde at marie.hyde@mitie.com.

Since 1987, Mitie’s 80,000 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.

Join our Mitie Team.

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Posted: May 28th, 2026