Technical Manager

Serco: Bisham Abbey, SL7 1RR

Permanent, Full Time (Mon – Fri, flexibility options available)
£35,000 - £42,000 per annum plus excellent benefits

Ready to impact a better future?

As a Technical Manager in our Serco Leisure team, you’ll make sure our facilities are safe, efficient, and operating at their best so our colleagues and community can rely on spaces that truly support wellbeing and positive impact. You’ll bring expertise, care, and a forward‑thinking approach to ensure our sites remain compliant, resilient, and ready for the future.

You’ll help create environments where our work touches lives every day — whether that’s improving comfort, ensuring safety, or supporting wider community programmes. Your leadership and technical insight will directly contribute to creating spaces people trust and feel proud to use.

What you’ll do as a Technical Manager

You’ll be entrusted to:

• Lead and motivate colleagues, ensuring a positive, organised, and safe working environment.
• Plan and manage workloads across reactive maintenance, planned preventative maintenance, and minor works.
• Oversee and administer the site’s computer‑aided facilities management system and performance management system.
• Manage site energy consumption through data analysis, profiling, and implementing improvement plans.
• Procure, coordinate, and oversee contractors and sub‑consultants for maintenance and capital project work.
• Support long‑term planning and budgeting, including five‑year maintenance strategies.
• Produce clear and accurate reports to support operational and strategic decision‑making.

Does this sound like you?

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

• Proven experience as a technical supervisor, building services manager, or similar facilities leader (minimum five years).
• Strong knowledge of statutory regulations, building systems, and compliance requirements.
• Hands‑on expertise across electrical and mechanical systems desirable, supported by relevant City and Guilds or equivalent qualifications.
• Confident leadership skills with the ability to motivate, plan, and support colleagues.
• Strong analytical skills and confidence working with CAFM systems, compliance processes, and maintenance planning.

• Qualification in electrical, mechanical or plumbing desirable

Vetting and checks
As well as checking eligibility to work in the UK, 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 (and the option to buy up to five additional leave days each year)
• 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.

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Serco/Serco Leisure Operating Limited are appointed as the Trust’s Managing Agents. We manage the recruitment process and the Trust’s employees in the delivery of the service on their behalf. The Trust is committed to equal opportunities and requests any potential applicant to contact the Recruitment Team on 0345 010 4000 as soon as possible if an applicant has any additional queries, requirements or will need additional time in submitting an application. Applicants should be aware that in line with the company’s policy, employees will have a DBS check where appropriate.

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