Senior Technical Manager

Equans is looking for a Senior Technical Manager to join our team in Edinburgh on a permanent basis. This is a full-time role working 37.5 hours per week. On offer is a competitive salary, company vehicle or allowance, bonus and benefits package. Reporting to the Head of Technical Services, the Senior Technical Manager is to be based at Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. This role is to lead the team of technical managers, supervisors and operatives in providing the technical service delivery at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

Core elements will include Health and Safety, communication at all levels, owning statutory compliance within span of control and ensuring financial targets are adhered to and to provide leadership and direction to technical teams at other sites in the region and to deputise for the Head of Technical Services when required. The Senior Technical Manager operates within a high‑acuity, 24/7 clinical environment, where engineering decisions have direct consequences on patient safety, regulatory compliance, and clinical service continuity. The role demands expert oversight of mechanical, electrical, and building‑fabric systems across a major teaching hospital, ensuring full adherence to the Scottish Health Technical Memoranda (SHTM) frameworks and statutory legislation. You are accountable for end‑to‑end statutory compliance across all building engineering systems, aligning operations with the NHS Scotland engineering governance model defined in SHTM 00 – Policies & Principles of Best Practice. This includes maintaining full evidence trails for audits, risk assessments, validation, competent person activities, and safe systems of work across EQUANS and subcontractors.

What will you deliver?

• Ensure the provision of healthy and safe working conditions and that both clients and Company health and safety policy and process is effectively implemented across both EQUANS and subcontractors activities and are regularly reviewed.
• Oversight Management of respective Technical Managers and systems.
• Lead and support agreed technical safety working groups.
• Responsible for the technical performance and maintenance of standards.
• Drive digitalisation and modernising working practices which demonstrate industry leading best practice.
• Maintain compliance is fully up to date from technical managers.
• Delivery Monthly KPI’s Evidence & Promote harmonised team working.
• Allow Technical Managers (Elec, Mech & Fabric) to run and concentrate on BAU, being the lead interface between client communications.
• Ensure contract is staffed by fully competent teams, ensuring post holders are fully competent, and that effective succession planning arrangements are in place.
• Working with their reports to ensure the collaborative development of the business, effective teamworking, and support to colleagues.
• Provide leadership in both the context of the technical services team at RIE and the wider region if required.
• Manage, organise and control the resource available to ensure that the mechanical and electrical engineering and building fabric services are delivered in line with contract requirement and client expectation.
• Ensure that financial targets are met for each budget year.
• Actively seek out opportunities to grow the business.
• Ensure safe systems of work are in place and used at all times.
• Manage continuous improvement activities to deliver improved service delivery year on year.
• Manage all aspects of the performance of technical services team.
• Ensure adherence to all Statutory Standards and Regulations and Department of Health requirements.
• Attend Union meetings, Health & Safety forums, Employee Forums and other regular meetings with staff and the client on a regular basis.
• Delegate when required for the Head of Technical Services.
• Responsible for participating in the ‘on call’ rota, after suitable training and relevant experience is gained.
• Ensure that staff performance is managed as required through for example, performance appraisals, disciplinary proceedings and grievances.
• Ensure that the Technical Services Team have a customer focussed and service delivery culture.
• Liaise, co-ordinate and support other EQUANS managers to ensure that cross service and wider contractual requirements are met.

What can we offer you?

• On offer is a competitive salary, car or car allowance, bonus and benefits package, which includes; 25 days annual leave (+ public holidays).
• Life Cover equivalent to 2x times annual salary.
• Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers.
• Gym membership discounts.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Holiday purchase scheme.
• 2 corporate social responsibility days per year.
• Broad range of learning opportunities, such as professional qualifications, collective/individual training, and personalized support programmes.
• Attractive Employee Referral Rewards Scheme.
• Access to our growing employee networks including AccessAbility (representing those with physical and mental disabilities), Encompass (representing the LGBTQ+ community), RISE (representing people from ethnic backgrounds), WOMEN TOGETHER (representing women in Equans), Working Parents, and Young Professionals.
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app.

Who are we looking for?

• HNC in an engineering discipline; building services related or relevant.
• Extensive technical competence in Electrical and/or Mechanical disciplines.
• Previous management experience leading technical services delivery in a healthcare or critical services environment.
• An understanding of alternative maintenance regimes.
• Carrying out technical monitoring, audits and reviews.
• Preparation of technical reports.
• Managing a planned preventative maintenance system.
• Maintaining record systems.
• Management of sub-contractors.
• IOSH Managing Safely or equivalent.
• Experience of Private Finance Initiative / Public Private Partnership contracts.
• Membership of a relevant professional institution.
• Held a position as an Authorised Person.
• Conversant with SHTM’s e.g. SHTM 03‑01, SHTM 04‑01, SHTM 02‑01 Overarching Engineering Governance - SHTM 00 – Policies & Principles of Best Practice.

Who are we?

Equans is a world leader in energy services with nearly 100,000 employees working in more than 50 countries, with an annual turnover of over 17 billion euros. In the UK & Ireland, Equans is a provider of technical, FM, regeneration and energy services – with specialist capabilities in smart buildings, green mobility, district & embedded energy and decentralised renewables. Equans’ 13,500 UK & Ireland employees combine these activities to help businesses, public sector organisations and government to embrace the energy transition towards net zero, and also the digital & industrial transitions that are redesigning the way we move, work and live. Equans is a Bouygues group company.

What’s next?

If this role is of interest to you, please click below to register, apply, and track your progress! A member of our Resourcing Team will review your application and be in touch.

As part our commitment to better reflect the markets within which we operate, we encourage applications from women, ethnically diverse individuals and people with disabilities, along with all candidates who identify with protected characteristic groups under the Equality Act 2010. At Equans we’re committed to delivering a culture where everyone’s voice is heard and supported. We know the value a diverse workforce creates, delivering better results for our people, customers, and stakeholders. Diversity and inclusion is at the core of what we do, should you join Equans you will find a welcoming and open workplace where you’re supported and encouraged to be your true self at work.

You will also have access to our growing employee networks including AccessAbility (representing those with physical and mental disabilities), Encompass (representing the LGBTQ+ community), RISE (representing people from ethnic backgrounds), WOMEN TOGETHER (representing women in Equans), Working Parents, Young Professionals, Veterans and Reservists Network (VaR).

For this role, you must have evidence of the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we are not able to offer a re-location package with this job role. Certain roles may require applicants to undergo a Disclosure check, as noted in the role requirements.

The Equans Resourcing Team supports this job advert. Agency involvement is not required. All related enquiries must come to the resourcing team not direct to Equans Managers.