Head of Technical Operations in Swindon

Better places, thriving communities. At Mitie, our people are our greatest strength, and we're committed to creating a place to work where you can thrive and perform at your best every day. We're looking for a Head of Technical Operations to play a pivotal role in supporting the success of our logistics client by driving outstanding Hard Services delivery across multiple sites. This is a regional role, covering sites across Swansea, Swindon, and Luton. The role offers a Monday to Friday working pattern, 40 hours per week, a company car, and a competitive salary depending on experience.

Job Objectives And Responsibilities

• Act as the head of frontline operations, leading both directly employed engineering teams and subcontractors to deliver a high‑quality Hard Services provision across the region.
• Ensure exceptional customer satisfaction while consistently meeting Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Serve as the key client contact for Hard Services, building strong, collaborative relationships through effective communication and a commitment to high‑quality service delivery.
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying innovative industry opportunities and supporting the ongoing development of the Mitie–client offering.
• Ensure full compliance with Quality, Health, Safety, and Environmental (QHSE) standards across all locations.

Main duties

• Act as the primary client point of contact, providing updates, resolving issues, managing escalations, and supporting meetings, reporting, and action plans with stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of engineers and technicians, ensuring high performance, safety compliance, training development, and maintenance of training matrices. Including supporting the Engineering Apprentice/Development programme.
• Oversee recruitment and ensure robust engineer coverage is in-place.
• Coordinate with scheduling and planning teams to manage workforce allocation, resource constraints, annual leave, and ensure service delivery aligns with operational plans.
• Own the P&L, delivering revenue, margin, and cash targets.
• Ensure compliance with Health & Safety, Quality, Environmental and industry regulations.
• Protect company reputation through strong governance and incident management.
• Monitor regulatory changes impacting operations and commercial viability.
• Manage asset lifecycle, utilising data to provide insights and generate client proposals.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Technically qualified background with evidence of CPD.
• Industry recognised Health and Safety qualification.
• Driving licence.
• Chartered status, desirable.
• Proven experience working within highly regulated environments in an engineering leadership role.
• Strong knowledge of engineering standards, statutory compliance, safety regulations, and technical risk management.
• Experience managing multi-disciplinary teams with the ability to inspire and motivate, delivering complex technical projects, and engaging with stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities under pressure.
• Demonstrable understanding and experience of CAFM systems, SLA and KPI models.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Strong presentation and negotiation skills.
• Must be able to complete a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service check.

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 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, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

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