Maintenance Engineer in Leicester, Leicestershire

Senior Engineer, Maintenance

Midlands, UK

Opportunity to join a major brand in engineering services, working across maintenance operations in a regional Midlands account. This senior engineer role will oversee both planned and reactive engineering estate maintenance activities while mentoring engineers and engineering delivery.

About the Role:  
As Senior Engineer for Maintenance, you will supervise and mentor an estates maintenance team delivering mechanical, electrical and HVAC services across various facilities. Your work will directly influence asset performance, service quality and long-term client satisfaction and retention.

Key Responsibilities:  
* Manage a planned and reactive engineering maintenance team across the Midlands region, ensuring consistent, high-quality service delivery.  
* Implement maintenance plans for mechanical, electrical and HVAC systems to maximise uptime and asset life.  
* Ensure compliance with health, safety and environmental standards, driving a strong safety culture across all maintenance activities.  
* Review and approve technical documentation, maintenance records and reports, ensuring accuracy and alignment with contractual and regulatory requirements.  
* Mentor, coach and develop maintenance engineers and technicians, setting clear performance expectations and supporting skills development.  

Key Requirements:  
* Proven experience in an engineering maintenance management or senior technical role within building services, facilities or industrial environments.  
* Strong background in engineering, including understanding of mechanical, electrical maintenance and HVAC systems, with the ability to oversee multi-disciplinary teams.  
* Demonstrable preventive maintenance planning and reactive maintenance coordination across multiple sites or a regional portfolio.  
* Solid track record in maintenance budgeting and cost control, including forecasting, variance analysis and optimisation of spend.  
* In-depth understanding of health, safety and environmental compliance relevant to engineering and facilities maintenance.  
* Experience managing vendors and contractors, including performance management and contract adherence.  
* Strong technical documentation and reporting skills, with the ability to interpret data and present clear, actionable insights to stakeholders.  
* Proven team leadership capability, with the ability to influence and collaborate across operations.  
* Confident customer skills, able to build relationships, manage expectations and delivery.

Desirable Skills:  
* Experience within a engineering services provider or large-scale facilities management organisation.  
* Background in facilities engineering, strong people leadership and customer skills and driving improvement initiatives.  
* Familiarity with CAFM/CMMS systems and data-driven maintenance optimisation.  
* Experience managing maintenance operations across a regional or portfolio in the Midlands or similar geography.  

Qualifications:  
* Technically qualified in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.  
* Recognised qualification in building services, HVAC or facilities engineering (preferred).  
* NEBOSH, IOSH or equivalent health and safety certification (preferred but strongly advantageous).  

If you are a results-driven maintenance leader ready to take a key role in a world leading business we would like to hear from you.