Technical Services Manager in Manchester

Energy Jobline CVL; Manchester; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Energy Jobline CVL is seeking a Technical Services Manager in Manchester to ensure engineering compliance, safety, and operational efficiency on site for a major UK facilities management provider.

You will bridge maintenance operations with long-term asset lifecycle management, focusing on HTM/Statutory compliance and patient requirements.

Qualifications

• Chartered/professional membership in a relevant body, or aiming to become chartered within 12 months.
• Authorised Person (AP) qualifications in one or more critical disciplines (e.g., High Voltage, Ventilation, or Water).
• Strong knowledge of critical mechanical and electrical systems found in typical UK PFI environments (healthcare, education, blue light, gov accommodation).

Responsibilities

• Monitor and review maintenance compliance (statutory and HTMs).
• Provide expert technical support to Lifecycle Project Managers for compliant capital replacement works.
• Audit maintenance activity, asset replacement activity, and maintenance records/PPM plans.
• Engage in technical discussions on HTM/HBN/Statutory compliance and patient requirements.

Skills

Chartered membership

Authorised Person (AP) qualifications

Mechanical & Electrical systems knowl

Job description

Ref: (phone number removed)
Location: Manchester M13
Hours: Monday to Friday 8am-5pm
Pay: £500 per day paid weekly via umbrella – inside IR35
Duration: Ongoing Contract – Long Term

Duties

As the Technical Services Manager, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring continued absolute engineering compliance, safety, and operational efficiency. Working for a major UK facilities management provider, you will act as the technical authority on site alongside the maintenance provider, bridging the gap between maintenance operations and long-term asset lifecycle management.

This role would be ideally suited to someone who has worked within a challenging PFI environment, has an eye for detail and enjoys unpicking installed assets and systems, understanding compliance, system, design and asset replacement. Noting that this is not a project management role.

Your dual focus will be monitoring and reviewing maintenance compliance (statutory and HTMs) and providing expert technical support to a dedicated team of in house Lifecycle Project Managers to ensure major capital replacement works are executed compliantly and seamlessly.

Hold a operational understanding of all assets and systems normally found within a UK Healthcare Environment and an awareness of all building services related topics

Have an educated background in either Mechanical, Electrical and Building Fabric but must have a solid understand of all three to allow appropriate decisions to be made

Be able to hold technical conversations and debates relating to compliance discussions providing a balanced true response which progresses issues in line with business objectives, HTM/HBN/Statutory compliance and patient requirements

Audit maintenance related activity, asset replacement activity, and maintenance records/PPM plans, commissioning data with a view to ensuring compliance, whilst considering the commercial environment

Person Specification

• Chartered/professional membership with a relevant body or able to become chartered /hold a professional membership within a 12 month period
• Obtained Authorised Person (AP) qualifications in one or more critical disciplines (e.g., High Voltage, Ventilation, or Water).
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of all critical mechanical and electrical systems found within a normal PFI environment (e.g. healthcare, education, blue light and government accommodation)