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Job Description: Control Room Operator
Mitie is the UK's leading facilities management and professional services company, looking after a large, diverse, blue-chip customer base, from banks and retailers, to hospitals, schools and government offices. Mitie has over 77, people, + office locations, and thousands of customers across the country, there's no limit to what you can achieve if you work for us.
£16.50/h
Full Time working hours to be discussed on the interview
About the Role:
1. Ensure staff are booked on to shifts at the correct locations and times.
2. Monitor and respond to missed check calls, booking emergency cover when needed.
3. Communicate with field officers, managers, and clients to provide operational updates.
4. Accurately log all incidents, call outcomes, and shift changes in the system.
5. Liaise with recruitment teams to fill short-notice vacancies or open shifts.
6. Escalate issues according to set protocols when appropriate.
7. Handover cleanly and clearly between shifts to maintain continuity of service.
About You:
8. Previous experience in a control room, helpdesk, or coordination environment is desirable but not essential – full training will be provided.
9. Good IT skills and the ability to use Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word, and bespoke systems confidently.
10. Excellent written and verbal communication.
11. High attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
12. Strong customer service mindset – professional, polite, and solutions-focused.
13. Reliable, punctual, and able to work rotating 12-hour day and night shifts.
Our market-leading flexible benefits scheme 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 benefits platform, Choices. This gives you the chance to customise your benefits to best suit your lifestyle. You can choose from dental insurance, dining cards, coffee clubs, buying technology products at an affordable cost and much more!
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 is the greater of your equivalent annual salary or a minimum of £10, - giving peace of mind for your dependants. We also offer 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 at .