Team Lead - Delivery Lead, Technical Services
// Role Summary
Lead and manage technical services for QinetiQ's Portsmouth site, ensuring safe and compliant maintenance of property operations assets while fostering a high-performing team.
// Key Responsibilities
- Lead a high-performing team focused on continuous improvement and QinetiQ values.
- Manage facilities, maintenance operations, and critical assets with a focus on safety and compliance.
- Coordinate with stakeholders to meet site objectives, budgets, and service requirements.
- Ensure all maintenance actions and operational responsibilities are completed to required standards.
- Requires a C&G, BTEC Level 3, ONC/OND, or NVQ Level 3 in Mechanical & Electrical disciplines.
- Must be eligible for SC clearance as a minimum.
// Role Specification
Team Lead - Technical Services
Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we are creating tomorrow by empowering and protecting lives through cutting-edge defence technology and ground-breaking innovations. Join us as a Team Lead - Technical Services at our Portsmouth site and collaborate with brilliant minds on advanced technology.
The Role
As a Team Lead - Technical Services within our Estates Delivery discipline, your primary responsibility is to ensure the safe and compliant maintenance of Property Operations assets across the site within your technical specialization. You will manage daily operations to ensure the site remains maintained, statutorily compliant, and operational for core business activities. You will also work across the management team to deliver a best-in-class service and engage with employees at all levels.
Your Responsibilities Will Include:
- Lead and develop a proactive, engaged, high-performing team, fostering QinetiQ values, capability, resilience, and continuous improvement.
- Coordinate with Team Leads and stakeholders to prioritize workloads, resolve conflicting demands, and ensure the delivery of site budgets, objectives, and service requirements.
- Lead the management of facilities, maintenance operations, buildings, infrastructure, and critical assets, ensuring effective contractor coordination, regulatory compliance, planned and reactive maintenance delivery, and continuous improvement in safety, performance, and service quality.
- Ensure maintenance actions, audit findings, risk management activities, and assigned operational responsibilities are completed on time and to the required standards.
- Manage work delivery to agreed time, cost, quality, and safety standards, while driving best practice and operational excellence.
- Provide strong leadership through effective communication, performance management, strategic planning, professional development, and stakeholder collaboration.
Essential Experience:
- Strong understanding of health, safety, environmental, security, and compliance requirements within operational and maintenance environments.
- Proven leadership experience managing teams and engaging multiple stakeholders to deliver operational objectives and service excellence.
- Experienced M&E, maintenance, or multi-skilled engineering professional with strong fault-finding, diagnostic, and planned maintenance expertise (including SFG20 standards).
- Skilled in influencing stakeholders and decision-makers, building collaborative relationships, and driving operational strategies across diverse teams.
- Analytical and detail-oriented problem solver with the ability to manage risk, resolve complex issues, and maintain business continuity.
- Advocate for continuous improvement, best practice, and effective communication, with a track record of delivering solutions and improving team performance.
Essential Qualifications:
- Relevant C&G, BTEC level 3, ONC/OND or NVQ level 3 in a mechanical & electrical discipline.
We value difference and welcome applications from candidates with the required experience and a willingness to learn, regardless of background or education.
This role is based at our Portsmouth site, 37 hours per week. Travel to other QinetiQ and customer sites will be expected.
Portsmouth Technology Park (PTP) is a key QinetiQ facility focused on advanced technology development and engineering services, utilizing sophisticated modelling and simulation to ensure complex systems meet operational requirements.
Please note that all applicants for this role must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.
Our Recruitment Process:
QinetiQ is committed to building an inclusive, accessible, and welcoming workplace. We believe diversity drives innovation and leads to better outcomes. We encourage applications from all candidates and are a disability confident committed employer. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please contact internal_recruitment@qinetiq.com.
Many QinetiQ roles require national security vetting. Applicants holding appropriate vetting may be able to transfer it. Some roles have additional restrictions related to nationality.
Why Join QinetiQ?
Join QinetiQ during an exciting period of growth and innovation. Our success is driven by our appetite for innovation and the courage to tackle complex challenges. Experience a unique working environment where diverse teams collaborate openly, blending disciplines and technologies to solve complex problems in an inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued, and realize your full potential. Visit our website to learn more about our workplace culture: www.qinetiq.com/en/careers/life-at-qinetiq.
Our Benefits:
- Matched contribution pension scheme with life assurance.
- Generous holiday allowance with the option to purchase additional days.
- Options for Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance, and Dental Insurance.
- Employee discount portal offering savings on Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets, and more.
- Proud support for the Armed Forces community, honoring the Armed Forces Covenant and holding a Gold Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
- Volunteering Opportunities with charities and the local community.