Head of Estates in Coventry

The Head of Estates will oversee the delivery of engineering and estates services across the Coventry and Rugby hospital sites, ensuring excellence in both day‑to‑day operations and long‑term infrastructure planning. With a strong engineering background, the postholder will be responsible for the safe, efficient, and compliant management of all building services, critical systems, and infrastructure, including capital projects and lifecycle management provision in line with the requirements of the PFI Facilities Management Agreement. They will produce comprehensive weekly and monthly estates reports for the Account Director, proactively identifying risks and maintaining an up‑to‑date risk register. This role is integral to supporting clinical services through resilient estate operations and will play a key part in advancing sustainability, capital investment, and lifecycle innovation across the estate.

Main Duties

• Lead all engineering and building services, ensuring statutory compliance, financial sustainability, and safe operations.
• Deliver annual capital, lifecycle, and PPM programmes in line with the PFI FM Agreement, minimising failures and deductions.
• Provide senior technical leadership, applying HTMs, HBNs, SFG20, CIBSE and statutory requirements.
• Deputise for the Account Director and support budget planning, value for money, and contract negotiations.
• Ensure sufficient Authorised/Responsible/Competent Persons and maintain full compliance with governance, IMS, audits, and statutory inspections.
• Oversee design, procurement, and delivery of capital and lifecycle projects, ensuring adherence to NHS standards and PFI change processes.
• Manage and develop staff, including H&S, appraisals, performance, training, and succession planning.
• Lead service improvement, sustainability, value engineering, and standardisation initiatives.
• Maintain operational policies, ensure compliance with Trust SFIs/SIs, and manage all H&S responsibilities.
• Provide PAM and ERIC data, support performance measurement, and maintain strong communication with the Client and Project Company.
• Build effective working partnerships and ensure staff are briefed on service development.

What We Are Looking For

• Degree in Engineering (Mechanical/Electrical/Building Services)
• Must be a Chartered Engineer – or working towards
• Significant senior‑level experience in healthcare estates
• Deep understanding of HTM, NHS compliance and engineering systems
• Leadership, strategic planning, technical problem‑solving, stakeholder engagement
• Commitment to NHS values, compassion, respect, integrity, and excellence
• Champion of equality, diversity, and inclusion

Why This Role Matters

Hospitals rely on resilient engineering infrastructure to save lives. In this role, you will shape the safety, reliability, and future of two major NHS sites — ensuring patients, clinicians, and communities benefit from a world‑class healthcare estate. If you are a senior leader who is an engineering estates professional with the expertise, authority, and ambition to lead in a demanding NHS PFI environment, we want to hear from you.

Benefits

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, offering expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme (access 50% of earned pay before payday for a small fee, competitive loans). A flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices, allows you to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year, critical illness insurance, dental treatment, or technology products at an affordable cost. We give you access to high‑street discounts from thousands of well‑known retailers, gyms, and more through our MiDeals platform. We have a cycle‑to‑work scheme, life cover of up to four times your salary, enhanced pension contributions, a save‑as‑you‑earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (possible free shares). We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. Cash prizes are available each month and a chance to win a £10,000 top prize at the end of the year. Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us, offering a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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 reasonable adjustments, please let us know by emailing Karen Hayes at.

Since 1987, Mitie’s 80,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, with clients ranging from household names in banking, critical government sites, hospitals and schools.