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Engineering Lead - Mechanical
University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire
Coventry (with occasional travel to Rugby)
Mitie is seeking an experienced Mechanical Engineering Lead to join the engineering team supporting University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire (UHCW), one of the largest and most complex acute healthcare estates in the Midlands. This role has been created as part of a wider investment in engineering capability and will act as the recognised mechanical technical authority across the estate.
Some engineering roles take you away from the technical work you enjoy. This isn't one of them.
We're looking for an engineer who wants to remain hands-on whilst providing technical leadership across a critical environment where reliability, compliance and operational resilience are essential. You'll be the person engineering teams turn to when faced with complex technical challenges, helping to shape engineering standards, improve asset performance and ensure continuity across a busy 24/7 healthcare environment.
The Opportunity
Working within one of Mitie's most significant healthcare contracts, you'll provide expert guidance across complex mechanical systems, support critical engineering decisions and act as the senior technical escalation point for mechanical services across the estate.
This is a technical specialist position rather than a people management role, making it ideal for someone who enjoys solving engineering problems, influencing best practice and remaining close to the operational delivery of engineering services.
What You'll Be Doing
- Acting as the recognised Mechanical Subject Matter Expert across the contract.
- Diagnosing and resolving complex and critical mechanical engineering issues.
- Providing technical assurance and engineering guidance to operational teams.
- Supporting compliance, asset management and lifecycle planning activities.
- Leading root cause analysis investigations and implementing permanent solutions.
- Developing technical standards, procedures and safe systems of work.
- Mentoring and coaching engineering teams to improve technical capability.
- Participating in the senior technical on-call and escalation rota.
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About You
You will likely have:
- A recognised mechanical engineering apprenticeship and relevant engineering qualifications.
- Significant experience within complex building services or critical engineering environments.
- Previous Authorised Person (AP) responsibilities and experience operating within safe systems of work.
- Strong fault-finding, diagnostic and problem-solving capabilities.
- Experience supporting complex mechanical plant and infrastructure.
- The confidence to act as a technical authority and influence engineering decisions.
Desirable Experience
- Healthcare Technical Memoranda (HTM) knowledge or MOD equivalent standards.
- Experience supporting energy centre, steam, water, ventilation or specialist mechanical systems.
- Healthcare or PFI contract experience.
- Professional engineering membership and further qualifications.
- Asbestos awareness certification.
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!
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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 84,000 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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