Technical Services Manager

Technical Services Manager - Manchester - retail sector - contract opportunity

Our client is a leading facilities management company with 50,000+ colleagues and a turnover in excess of £2bn. They deliver innovative, award-winning services within facilities management, hard services, cleaning, security and catering.Due to a new contract, they now need a Technical Services Manager to be based in Manchester on a single site with a large retail client.
Responsible for the contract management of the staff, operation and maintenance of all electrical and mechanical plants/services, project works and plant performance.
You will be working Monday to Friday, 08:00 to 17:00, 40 hours per week.

Main Duties:

• Leading a team of 25 to deliver a best in class customer focussed engineering service.
• Provide technical advice to the client and support for the team.
• Manage the PPM, Reactive and Projects on a major retail site.
• Leading account engineering team and all associated subcontracted elements including the training all the staff in new methodologies and ways of working.
• Ensure the team operate under the permit procedure and approval. Understanding risk and fill any competency gaps within the site standards.
• Ensure optimum staffing structures operate across contracts, balancing cost reduction with the delivery of service excellence.
• Responsible for the technical development of all staff, which will include appraisals and objective reviews.
• Manage budgets within the engineering workstream
• Auditing to provide assurance of compliance

Requirements :

• HNC level in Electrical/Mechanical or Building Services Engineering or recognised equivalent; possess experience of delivering project and CAPEX works
• A proven track record of delivery within the M&E industry
• Experience in a similar role
• Leadership experience combined with good Mechanical and Electrical technical knowledge
• Lean 6 Sigma and Agile experience to challenge ways of working to optimise value-adding activity within the team (Desirable)
• Extensive operational leadership experience
• Strong communication skills. Ability to lead, motivate and direct a team of technicians/operatives
• Inspirational people leader with experience of managing large teams

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