Technical Services Manager

Location: Central London (with flexibility to travel to other client sites)

Hours: 40 hours per week | Working 5 out of 7 days

Salary: Highly competitive + 10% bonus + £1,300 flexible benefits

️ Perk: Free onsite gym access

We’re supporting a prestigious, high-profile site in Central London in the search for an experienced Technical Services Manager to provide calm, credible leadership in a complex and fast-paced environment.

This role suits someone who enjoys owning the bigger picture while staying close to the detail. You’ll lead onsite technical teams and specialist partners, maintain high standards of compliance and risk control, and ensure the site is always audit-ready. You’ll also play a key role in modernising maintenance and asset performance, using data, continuous improvement and new technology to drive reliability, efficiency and long-term value for the client.

If you’re confident engaging with senior stakeholders, coaching teams to perform at their best, and turning complex technical delivery into consistent, future-focused outcomes, this could be an excellent next step.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead engineering optimisation initiatives to improve maintenance strategies and asset performance
• Ensure all activities comply with relevant statutory requirements and industry codes of practice
• Deliver all technical services safely, compliantly, diligently and cost-effectively
• Maintain strong governance around engineering and statutory compliance
• Build effective industry and client networks to support continuous improvement
• Manage key relationships with the client and senior decision-makers
• Develop and support an engineering apprenticeship pipeline, ensuring progression and long-term value
• Drive best-practice maintenance delivery techniques across the site

What We’re Looking For - Essential

• Professionally qualified engineer
• Experience working in complex or critical environments with high business risk
• Strong knowledge of engineering and statutory compliance
• Excellent communication, influencing and stakeholder-management skills
• Proven leadership of critical technical functions
• Sound commercial awareness and budget management experience
• Strong people-management capability
• Asbestos awareness and management experience

Desirable

• NEBOSH qualification
• Previous Authorised Person experience (trade-specific)
• Membership of a professional engineering institute
• Risk assessment certification
• Experience managing legionella and water quality

Why Apply?

This is an opportunity to join a values-driven organisation delivering critical services in a flagship environment. You’ll be supported to grow, develop and make a real impact, while benefiting from a strong package of rewards and wellbeing support.

Benefits include:

• Comprehensive wellbeing and mental health support platform
• Employee Assistance Programme (including legal and financial advice)
• 24/7 virtual GP access
• Retail and lifestyle discount schemes (available to friends and family)
• Pension scheme
• Ongoing learning and development opportunities
• Bike to Work scheme
• Enhanced benefits and leave policies