Technical Supervisor

Job Req ID: 310851

Posting Start Date: 29 Jun 2026

Location:

Kent, Kent, GB, TN1

Contract Type: Full Time

Job Advertisement:

Permanent, Full Time (40 hrs p/w – various working patterns available)

Site Locations: Covering Tunbridge Wells Leisure Centre, TN4 9TX, The Weald (Cranbrook) TN17 2PN and Putlands (Paddock Wood) TN12 6NZ

£31,907 per annum + excellent benefits

Ready to impact a better future?

As a Technical Supervisor in our Leisure Centres, you’ll lead the delivery of safe, efficient, and compliant building services across multiple leisure sites, helping to create spaces where communities can thrive. Your leadership will ensure essential systems run reliably, supporting both customer experience and operational excellence.

This is a hands-on role where you’ll combine technical expertise with team leadership to maintain high-performing facilities. From optimising energy use to overseeing maintenance and compliance, your work will have a direct and positive impact on customers, colleagues, and the wider community.

What you’ll do as a Technical Supervisor

You’ll be entrusted to:

Deliver planned preventative maintenance (PPM), statutory inspections, and reactive repairs across building services systems and plant
Supervise technical colleagues and specialist subcontractors, ensuring safe, high-quality, and compliant delivery of all works
Oversee swimming pool plant operations, monitoring water quality and ensuring systems meet required standards
Respond to faults and breakdowns, diagnosing issues quickly and minimising disruption to operations
Ensure all activities meet health, safety, and environmental requirements, providing technical guidance to site teams
Monitor system performance and optimise plant and controls to improve reliability, energy efficiency, and customer comfort

Does this sound like you?

You’ll be a great fit for this role if you have:

A recognised technical or trade qualification with strong hands-on experience in building services or engineering
Proven experience supervising maintenance activities or technical teams in a similar environment
Strong knowledge of health and safety, compliance, and industry best practice
Experience managing contractors and coordinating workloads effectively
Confidence using computer-aided maintenance or asset management systems
A valid UK driving licence

Vetting and checks

This role requires a Basic DBS check, which will disclose any unspent convictions in line with the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. You will also complete an Occupational Health Questionnaire to help us identify and provide any support you may need to undertake the role effectively.

Discover all you need to keep growing

We’re one of the top 1% of international employers, so you can have confidence you’ll be part of a highly supportive culture with leaders you can count on to help you achieve your goals. From mentoring and training to our focus on internal progression, we’re proud to offer clear development opportunities – and the support and tools to help you seize them.

What we offer

25 days plus bank holidays
Up to 6% contributory pension scheme
Over 1,100 internal courses available, funding for qualifications and apprenticeships (including L3 Team Leader and L5 Operations Manager apprenticeships), mentoring opportunities, and a focus on internal progression
Employee Assistance Programme, Bupa Anytime HealthLine, wellbeing app, 30% off at Serco-managed leisure centres, and 24/7 access to a virtual GP service
Discounts across around 1,000 retailers, from food and clothing to days out, entertainment and travel
Paid volunteering day, tax-free charitable giving through Payroll Giving Scheme, donate your pennies from your monthly pay to the Serco People Fund Charity
Our networks support inclusion and connection by providing spaces for collaboration, learning, and belonging. They represent and empower all our colleagues including LGBTQIA+ employees, women, parents and carers, people with disabilities, veterans, and people from all cultural backgrounds.

Let’s impact a better future, together. Apply today.

About Serco
At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services. We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world in areas including defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare and citizen services. We are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.

By joining Serco you will have unlimited access to our Global Employee Networks – SercoInspire (Gender), SercoEmbrace (Multicultural), SercoUnlimited (Disability) and In@Serco (LGBT & Networks). Serco Employee Networks, led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging.

Apply
Please click on the apply button to complete your application. Occasionally we receive a large volume of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

At Serco, we see people first and foremost for their performance and potential. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates and strongly encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool. We are open to discussions around flexibility and flexible working. We operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas. We are proudly Disability Confident Leader employers and holder of the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview. For help with your application please contact 0345 010 4000.

At Serco we support fair access to employment for those with unspent criminal convictions through the ‘Ban the Box’ pledge (some may be exempt due to the nature of the role and the security clearance required). Please contact our recruitment team directly on 0345 010 4000 to discuss.

About Serco
At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services. We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world in areas including defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare and citizen services. We are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.

By joining Serco you will have unlimited access to our Global Employee Networks – SercoInspire (Gender), SercoEmbrace (Multicultural), SercoUnlimited (Disability) and In@Serco (LGBT & Networks). Serco Employee Networks, led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging.

Apply
Please click on the apply button to complete your application. Occasionally we receive a large volume of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

At Serco, we see people first and foremost for their performance and potential. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates and strongly encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool. We are open to discussions around flexibility and flexible working. We operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas. We are proudly Disability Confident Leader employers and holder of the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview. For help with your application please contact 0345 010 4000.

At Serco we support fair access to employment for those with unspent criminal convictions through the ‘Ban the Box’ pledge (some may be exempt due to the nature of the role and the security clearance required). Please contact our recruitment team directly on 0345 010 4000 to discuss.