Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services
Data Centre IFM Technical Manager
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Location: Peterborough
Contract: Full Time
At Mitie, our people are our greatest strength, and we're committed to creating a workplace where you can thrive and be your best every day. We're looking for a Data Centre IFM Technical Manager to lead integrated facilities management operations within a critical data centre environment, ensuring the safe, compliant and resilient operation of essential engineering infrastructure.
You'll play a key role in maintaining business-critical services, leading engineering teams and specialist partners, and working closely with client stakeholders to deliver exceptional operational performance.
Role Responsibilities
- Lead day-to-day engineering and IFM operations across critical electrical and mechanical systems, ensuring safety, compliance and operational resilience.
- Manage maintenance, change control, incident response and technical assurance activities across the site.
- Lead and develop on-site engineering teams, contractors and service partners, driving high performance and continuous improvement.
- Oversee compliance with statutory regulations, permit-to-work processes, safe systems of work and audit requirements.
- Act as the primary operational contact for client stakeholders, providing clear communication on performance, risks, planned works and incidents.
Required Qualifications
Applicants must meet the following requirements:
- HNC, HND, Degree or recognised apprenticeship in Electrical, Mechanical or Building Services Engineering, or equivalent industry experience.
- IOSH Managing Safely (or equivalent) as a minimum.
- Relevant HV/LV or critical environment authorisation, or the ability to obtain site-specific authorisation.
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What We're Looking For
- Proven experience within a data centre, critical environment or high-availability engineering facility.
- Strong knowledge of critical infrastructure including electrical distribution, UPS, generators, cooling systems, BMS and fire systems.
- Experience managing multidisciplinary engineering teams, contractors and service providers.
- Confidence leading incident response, change management and operational risk activities.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
What's In It For You?
- Opportunity to lead operations within a highly prestigious and technically challenging data centre environment.
- Exposure to critical engineering systems and large-scale infrastructure projects.
- Career development opportunities within one of the UK's leading facilities management organisations.
There's a place for you at Mitie, join us today!
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!
- 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 Inder Mann at Inder.Mann@mitie.com.
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