Senior Facility & Estates Service Engineer
// Role Summary
Join OMNIA Training as a Senior Facility & Estates Service Engineer, supporting the transformation of the British Army's training system by managing and improving Defence Training Estates.
// Key Responsibilities
- Manage and improve Defence Training Estates for effective military training.
- Coordinate infrastructure-related tasks, ensuring safe and fit-for-purpose training environments.
- Liaise with stakeholders to maintain training site catalogues and facilitate exercise planning.
- Analyse training estate utilisation data to inform efficiency and resource allocation recommendations.
- Deputise for the OMNIA Facilities Supporting Service Lead when required.
// Role Specification
About the Role
This is more than a job – it’s a mission. As a Senior Facility & Estates Service Engineer, you will support the Facilities Lead in managing and improving the use of Defence Training Estates to enable effective military training.
Your role will involve assisting with the planning, coordination, and day-to-day delivery of infrastructure-related tasks, ensuring training environments are safe, accessible, and fit for purpose. Working closely with a range of internal and external stakeholders, you will help maintain a catalogue of training sites and their capabilities to expedite exercise planning.
You will coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to arrange access to training sites, facilitating the setup, execution, and teardown of exercises and activities. In addition, you will monitor and review how training estates are being used, analysing utilisation data to inform recommendations for improved efficiency, better resource allocation, and future expansion.
This role requires strong organisational and communication skills, as well as the ability to balance operational needs with long-term strategic planning. Your contributions will be critical in ensuring operational readiness, enabling data-driven decision-making, and delivering secure, scalable, and integrated simulation training systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Catalogue Management: Collate existing facility and infrastructure capability across Defence training estates, support verification of current infrastructure against operational requirements, and develop/maintain a comprehensive catalogue of Defence Training Estates.
- Training Estate Coordination: Help arrange and coordinate access to training estates for exercises and activities. Liaise with training units to understand scheduling needs and logistical requirements. Support setup, execution, and teardown of training activities, ensuring minimal disruption and adherence to safety protocols.
- Utilisation Review & Reporting: Contribute to the monitoring and analysis of estate usage data. Prepare draft reports and summaries for review. Help identify inefficiencies and suggest areas for further investigation.
- Strategic Improvement: Support the collection of information related to infrastructure capability gaps. Assist in preparing business cases or proposals. Identify continuous improvement opportunities to optimise service delivery.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Maintain contact with internal teams, military units, and contractors. Coordinate logistics and meeting arrangements for DIO, OTIC, and other key stakeholders. Help ensure ongoing compliance with relevant safety, environmental, and operational standards.
- Support to Training: Respond to facility-related requests and escalate issues where appropriate. Support the monitoring, upkeep, and effectiveness of temporary structures used in training environments.
- Deputy Service Lead: Deputise for the OMNIA Facilities Supporting Service Lead when required.
Skills and Requirements
- Proven organisational and project coordination skills, with experience managing multiple concurrent activities in complex environments.
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement abilities, capable of liaising confidently with government personnel, contractors, and internal teams.
- Competent in analysing data and generating clear, concise reports to inform decision-making.
- Solid understanding of facility and infrastructure management principles, including health and safety and compliance standards.
- Proficient in MS Office suite and comfortable using databases or asset management tools.
- Ability to prioritise tasks effectively, demonstrate initiative, and work independently with minimal supervision.
Desirable Skills
- Experience working within Defence or similarly regulated environments, ideally supporting training estates or operational facilities.
- Familiarity with Defence estate management processes and organisations such as DIO and OTIC.
- Knowledge of temporary and modular structures, including their setup and maintenance in training contexts.
- Basic project management skills or certification (e.g., PRINCE2, APMP).
- Understanding of environmental and safety legislation relevant to estate operations.