Maintenance Manager

Sodexo Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mental health support platform

Employee Assistance Programme

Wellbeing app access

Sodexo Discounts Scheme

Salary Finance / Retirement Plan

Death in Service benefit

Flexible work environment

Full training & protective uniform

Job summary

Sodexo is seeking a skilled Maintenance Manager at King's College Hospital in London to lead engineering and building services across a busy healthcare environment. You will own maintenance operations, statutory compliance, energy management, and team leadership, working with NHS Trust and Sodexo stakeholders to ensure a safe, efficient facilities.

The role requires a degree in engineering, proven leadership of engineering teams and contractors, strong communication, HTM knowledge, energy

Qualifications

• Degree, HNC/HND or equivalent in Engineering with extensive practical experience.
• Proven leadership of engineering, maintenance and contractor teams with focus on performance and compliance.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication across senior levels, NHS and partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering and building services across a complex hospital estate, ensuring safe, compliant service delivery.
• Develop and manage a multidisciplinary engineering team and contractors to drive performance.
• Oversee Planned Preventative Maintenance and reactive maintenance ensuring contractual compliance.
• Serve as key point of contact for the NHS Trust and stakeholders to ensure service excellence.
• Oversee Authorised Person duties and Permit to Work/Safe Systems of Work.
• Support commercial performance through KPI management and budgeting.
• Guide lifecycle, small works and projects to meet standards and specifications.
• Drive energy efficiency and sustainability initiatives for optimum plant performance.

Skills

Leadership experience

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

AP LV Qualification

Job description

• Maintenance Manager
• £50,000 Per Annum, Dependant on Experience:
• 40 Hours Per Week
• Location is Kings College Hospital, Bassemer Road, London, SE5 9RS
• AP LV Qualification required for this role

At King's College Hospital, we are seeking an experienced and dynamic Maintenance Manager to lead the delivery of critical engineering and building services across one of the UK's busiest and most complex healthcare environments. This is an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled facilities professional to take ownership of maintenance operations, statutory compliance, energy management, and team leadership within a prestigious PFI hospital estate. Working closely with senior stakeholders, the NHS Trust, and Sodexo leadership teams, you will play a key role in ensuring a safe, efficient, and compliant environment that directly supports outstanding patient care and operational excellence.

What You'll Do:

• Lead the operational management of engineering and building services across a complex hospital estate, ensuring safe, effective, and compliant service delivery.
• Manage and develop a multidisciplinary engineering team and specialist contractors, driving high performance and service excellence.
• Oversee the delivery of Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) and reactive maintenance services, ensuring full contractual and statutory compliance.
• Act as the key point of contact for the NHS Trust, building strong stakeholder relationships and ensuring exceptional service delivery.
• Hold responsibility for Authorised Person (AP) duties and the management of the Permit to Work system and Safe Systems of Work.
• Support the commercial performance of the contract through effective management of KPIs, performance monitoring, compliance, and operational budgets.
• Lead lifecycle, small works, and engineering projects, working closely with project teams to ensure works are delivered to agreed standards and specifications.
• Drive energy efficiency and sustainability initiatives, ensuring plant and equipment operate at optimum performance whilst identifying opportunities for continuous improvement.

What You Bring:

• Degree, HNC/HND or equivalent qualification in an Engineering discipline, supported by extensive practical experience within a complex operational environment.
• Proven leadership experience managing engineering, maintenance, and specialist contractor teams, with a strong focus on performance, compliance, and service delivery.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence, negotiate, and build effective relationships across all levels, including senior leadership, NHS stakeholders, suppliers, and external partners.
• Comprehensive knowledge of building services engineering, statutory compliance, HTM requirements, and safe systems of work, ideally within a healthcare or critical environment.
• Experience of energy management, sustainability initiatives, and operational efficiency programmes, with the ability to identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills, capable of interpreting complex technical information, assessing risks, and making sound operational decisions in a fast paced environment.

What we offer:

• Unlimited access to an online platform offering mental health and wellbeing support.
• Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or larger problems where you may need additional support, including legal and financial advice, support with work related issues or personal issues such as bereavement.
• Access to a free health and wellbeing app that provides rewards for maintaining a healthy lifestyle and includes access to a 24hr virtual GP and various other services.
• The Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 (also open to friends and family) and/or the prepayment cashback card.
• Money Insights and financial benefits via the Salary Finance Platform.
• Save for your future by becoming a member of the Sodexo Retirement Plan
• A Death in Service benefit for colleagues who pass away whilst employed by Sodexo
• Opportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including a variety of learning and development tools.
• Cycle to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fit.
• Volunteering Opportunities to enable all colleagues to help support worthwhile causes in our communities.
• Flexible and dynamic work environment
• Competitive compensation
• Full training and full protective uniform supplied.

About Sodexo

At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every day for everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100 million consumers each day through our unique combination of Onsite Food and FM Services, Benefits and Rewards Services and Personal and Home Services.

We are committed tobeingan inclusive employer. We are a forces friendly employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds, and identities. We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents and Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, So Together, Generations and Origins.

We're a Disability Confident Leader employer. We're committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. We run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.

Sodexo Disability, Ability network, So Together, Generations and Origins.