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Head of Projects – FM (Manufacturing Sector)
📍 Midlands (Hybrid – Derby hub) | 💼 £30–40m Portfolio
The Opportunity
As Head of Projects, you'll lead a portfolio worth £30–40m annually, with full accountability for delivery, commercial performance, and client satisfaction.
You'll act as the single point of contact for all projects, working closely with the client PMO and senior stakeholders to shape strategy, drive consistency, and deliver excellence across multiple sites.
This is a high-impact, visible role where cultural fit, relationship management, and leadership are just as critical as technical capability.
What You'll Be Doing
1. Lead and inspire a team of 20–30 project professionals across the UK
2. Own full P&L responsibility (£30–40m), driving profit, cost control, and growth
3. Oversee delivery of high-volume, complex projects (£25k–£15m), including: M&E and asset upgrades Refurbishments and building fabric improvements Manufacturing environment enhancements and installations Energy and sustainability projects
4. Act as trusted advisor to the client, influencing CAPEX strategy and delivery models
5. Drive best-in-class health, safety, and governance standards
6. Strengthen long-term client relationships in a demanding, high-performance environment
7. Ensure strong commercial discipline, billing accuracy, and cash collection
What We're Looking For
8. Strong leadership experience managing projects in FM, construction, or manufacturing environments
9. Proven track record delivering across complex, multi-site portfolios
10. Commercially astute with experience owning large budgets/P&L
11. Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the ability to operate at senior levels
12. Project Management qualification (essential)
13. A resilient, hands-on leader who thrives under scale and complexity
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Marie Hyde at .