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Senior Maintenance Engineering Manager

Key skills required for this role

Maintenance Engineering - Facilities - Hospitality - Aviation - Management

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Senior Maintenance Engineering Manager

Job description

Location: Heathrow
Salary: £70,000 - £85,000 + BUPA Medical + 28 Days Holiday + Pension

We're hiring a Senior Maintenance Engineering Manager to lead and develop the engineering function at our flagship 30,000 sqm industrial kitchen site in Heathrow. This high-throughput operation supports daily production for thousands of meals-from chilled sandwiches to complex plated dishes-serving a workforce of around 2,700 on-site staff.

This is a hands-on leadership role. We're looking for someone with strong technical knowledge and a proactive approach to driving reliability, compliance, and performance across the plant. You'll lead an in-house engineering team and oversee a large group of external contractors to ensure the site runs smoothly, safely, and efficiently.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve critical systems: steam boilers, refrigeration, AHUs, DAF plant, MEIKO dishwashers, and electrical infrastructure (including substations)

• Ensure full compliance with maintenance legislation and internal standards (PPMs, electrical checks, documentation)

• Identify training needs and improve engineering team capability

• Be available for urgent issues-while not on-call formally, the role requires emergency availability due to operational criticality

• Manage and develop a core team of 8 engineers (expanding to 11-15)

• Oversee 50-60 contractors across gas, electrical, waste, and other technical areas

What We're Looking For

• Experience you have with boilers, refrigeration, air handling units and waste units

• Experience with legal compliance (electrical, maintenance, safety)

• Experience managing internal and external stake holders

• Able to interpret data to make decisions

Benefits

• Salary: £70,000 - £85,000 (DOE)

• BUPA medical insurance

• 28 days holiday

• Company pension scheme