MEP Operations Manager

This post is full time (35 hours p/w) and open ended. Relocation assistance will be provided where appropriate.

The University of Glasgow has been changing the world for more than 575 years, and we are one of the world's top 100 universities, ranked 12^th in the world in the Times Higher Education (THE) World Impact Rankings 2025, demonstrating that we are not only one of the best universities in the United Kingdom, but one of the best universities for the world. Our people have always been at the forefront of innovation, and our past achievements inspire our current world changers.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a new MEP Operations Manager to join the University’s Estates Directorate.

In this role you will be responsible for the management of allocated human, financial and physical resources, providing effective management to the Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) Operations teams, equipping and enabling them to deliver efficient, high-quality buildings, spaces and places, ensuring maximum availability and useability of the same. You shall embrace digital technologies with a strong drive towards sustainability, supporting the development of smart buildings for the benefit of users, and the environment.

You will contribute to the delivery of the department’s strategic and operational targets, overall service delivery aims and be accountable for implementation and delivery of all relevant policy, objectives and standards. This involves the review, development and implementation of continuous improvements in working initiatives and working patterns to ensure value-for-money arrangements which are customer focused, tailored to the needs of stakeholders and which fulfil departmental and University strategies and objectives.

You will ensure suitable professional and technical development of the internal operations/trades teams’ competency and capability to support the operations of the existing Estate and the future complex buildings that will be delivered as part of the University’s Campus Development Plan.

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