Engineering Operations Manager

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
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed