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Are you an experienced Maintenance Supervisor with a strong technical background and a passion for leading engineering teams?

We're looking for a hands-on Maintenance Supervisor to join our team at the prestigious Royal College of Art (RCA), supporting one of the most unique and exciting estates in London.

The Royal College of Art is a world-leading postgraduate university of art and design, with a diverse estate comprising specialist workshops, studios, teaching spaces, laboratories, offices, public areas and student accommodation. No two days are the same.

This role is ideal for an established Maintenance Supervisor who combines strong mechanical or building services knowledge with proven experience managing engineers, contractors, compliance activities and planned maintenance programmes.

Working closely with the Hard Services Manager, you'll play a key role in ensuring the safe, compliant and effective operation of the estate while supporting, coaching and developing the engineering team.

What You'll Be Doing

Supervising a team of maintenance engineers and technicians,
Leading the delivery of planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive maintenance,
Acting as a technical point of escalation for engineers and contractors,
Supporting fault-finding and diagnosis across building services systems and plant,
Managing contractors, permits to work and safe systems of work,
Monitoring statutory compliance activities and maintaining associated records,
Ensuring health, safety and environmental standards are consistently achieved,
Maintaining and updating CAFM systems and maintenance records,
Planning and coordinating repairs, minor works and maintenance projects,
Coaching and developing engineers, helping to build technical capability within the team.

Essential Criteria

Experience in a Maintenance Supervisor, Lead Engineer or similar supervisory position
Level 3 technical qualification (NVQ, City & Guilds, BTEC or equivalent) in Mechanical, Electrical or Building Services Engineering
Strong hands-on experience within building maintenance, facilities management or a similar environment
Proven experience delivering planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive maintenance
Experience supervising maintenance teams and specialist contractors
Sound understanding of statutory compliance and health and safety requirements within a maintenance environment
Experience using CAFM systems
Strong fault-finding and problem-solving skills

Desirable

Mechanical bias with experience of HVAC systems, pumps, AHUs, LTHW systems and associated plant
IOSH Managing Safely or similar qualification
Experience working within a complex commercial, education, healthcare or public-sector estate
Knowledge of SFG20 maintenance standards

More About You

You're a leader who enjoys being visible, supporting engineers and setting high technical standards. You're comfortable balancing practical maintenance supervision with contractor management, compliance administration and planning activities.
Most importantly, you're someone engineers respect because of your technical knowledge and willingness to support the team when challenges arise.

Why Join Us?

This is an opportunity to work within a unique and inspiring environment where facilities management directly supports world-class education, research and creativity. You'll be part of a collaborative team, working across a varied estate while helping to shape and develop engineering standards for the future.

Benefits

We are a large diverse and ambitious business, which will give you all the challenge you could wish for.

We know that there's always more we can do to make you smile, that's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package with each role, yours will include:

Competitive salary with regular annual review
Pension with matched contributions up to 7%
Bonus scheme for colleagues at 2%
35 days holiday (including bank holiday) with option to buy or sell days
Healthcare cashback plan for everyday medical costs - up to £500 savings per year
Access to wellbeing support such as counselling and flu jabs
Private GP and health support services available
Access to a rewards platform with retail and lifestyle discounts
Savings on groceries, travel, shopping and home products
Ongoing training and development opportunities
Access to professional qualifications and career progression
Internal development programmes and learning support
Recognition schemes such as Star Awards and Colleagues Awards
Strong focus on inclusion, wellbeing and colleague engagement
Free membership to Places Gyms

What's next?

If you meet the criteria and are ready to make the next step in your career then click apply. You will be redirected to our careers site where you can discover more about the role, read a full job description and apply directly to us.

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We are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application or interview experience, please let us know. We're happy to work with you to ensure you have the opportunity to perform at your best.

If you are a Places for People customer and you're looking for support with your application, please contact our skills and employment team on skillsemployment@placesforpeople.co.uk.

We understand the importance of a supportive and inclusive work culture so please talk to us at interview about flexibility you may need. We can't promise to give you exactly what you want, but we promise not to judge you for asking. For this role we are open to discussing the possibility of reduced hours, flexible start and finish times or compressed hours.

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By joining Places for People, you are expected to contribute to our safeguarding culture, following our policies and reporting concerns to protect those in our communities

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