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Posted 21 July, 2026

Engineering Operations Manager

Velocity Recruitment
London, ENG, GB Full Time

Job Description

About the Role: As an Engineering Operations Manager, you will manage the team responsible for all mechanical operations, maintenance, communications, energy management, and workforce development programs for a banking client. Role Responsibilities: * Provide formal supervision to employees. Monitor the training and development of staff. Conduct performance evaluations and coaching. Oversee the recruiting and hiring of new employees. * Coordinate and manage the team's daily activities. Establish work schedules, assign tasks, and cross-train staff. Set and track staff and department deadlines. Mentor and coach as needed. * Manage operations and maintenance for assigned facilities. Develop operating and capital budgets. * Recommend and implement improvements for preventive maintenance programs on an on-going basis. Create and maintain effective building-specific maintenance and safety procedure manuals. * Point of contact for maintenance efforts with outside contractors, tenant finish personnel and technicians. * Oversee all building systems including fire/life safety, plumbing, HVAC, and electrical issues. Must remain current with latest technology trends. * Maintain on-going communication with high profile tenants, clients, owners, facility management team and vendors. * Drive the acquisition of new management contracts. Facilitate the development of as-built drawings. * Respond to emergency situations (fire, evacuation, equipment failure etc.) and customer concerns. * Apply a broad knowledge of the business, own discipline, and how own discipline integrates with others to achieve team and departmental objectives. * of view while being guided by policies and departmental plans. * Identify and solve technical and operational problems of complexity. * Understand and recognize the broader impact across the department. * Improve and change existing methods, processes, and standards within job discipline. Role Requirements: * Experience in the areas of staffing, selection, training, development, coaching, mentoring, measuring, appraising, and rewarding performance and retention is preferred. * Ability to lead the exchange of sensitive, complicated, and difficult information, convey performance expectations and handle problems. * Leadership skills to motivate the team to achieve broad operational targets with impacts on own job discipline, multiple job disciplines, and department. * In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office products. Examples include Word, Excel, Outlook, etc. * Extensive organizational skills and an advanced inquisitive mindset