Technical Services Manager in Camden Town)

Salary: £60-62,000

Location: Central London (Camden)

Benefits: Annual Bonus, Pension Scheme, Healthcare

Responsibilities

• Compliance with all current legislation and recommended standards.
• Verify contractors risk assessments are up to date and appropriate to building and maintenance tasks.
• Ensure all written schemes are up to date.
• Ensure contractors emergency lighting log records are up to date.
• Management of water treatment regime ensuring that water treatment manuals are up to date.
• Manage status of lift inspections and report via lift minutes.
• Ensure that all statutory inspections are carried out by the due date and manage/monitor progress of actions via external reports spreadsheet attached to appropriate minutes.
• Provide day-to-day technical and operational support to building managers and occupiers.
• Management of the permit to work system and check method statements where appropriate.
• Liaise with building management and occupiers regarding operational and technical matters such as plant shutdowns and work impacting on occupiers' operation.
• Review occupier license applications.
• Review and comment on drawings, specifications and reports submitted by the occupiers and advise the landlord accordingly of any impact on base build operations or any technical or lease concerns.
• Liaise with tenant consultants on any technical or operational revisions.
• Monitor tenant fit-out work and liaise as necessary to ensure that work complies with the approved license for alteration.
• Carry out random inspections of fit-out works and report, liaise on findings as necessary.
• Undertake regular audits of maintenance programme.
• Review call out sheets and investigate as necessary.
• Review concept ppm sheets/reports and investigate as necessary.
• Carry out random inspections of ppm/reactive works completed and in progress.
• Preparation and management of engineering service charge budgets, to include procurement as per company policies.
• Budget control, preparation of relevant specification, raising orders/instructions/contracts and verifying (processing) invoices.
• To develop, implement and manage environmental and energy conservation programmes, ensuring optimum usage of energy.
• To advise on potential problems, improvements and possible savings.
• Analyse monitoring & targeting reports and investigate and action as necessary.
• Arrange independent energy audits as necessary and action recommendations as necessary.
• Analysis and management of all engineering data/reports, ensuring that appropriate action/follow up is achieved.
• Identify & agree specialist consultant roles and review consultants brief on a regular basis.
• Manage other audit reports.
• Review actions/progress and monitor monthly via external reports spreadsheet attached to m & e minutes.
• Implementation, management, and development of the concept planned maintenance system, ensuring information, plant history, drawings and technical information is accurate and up to date.
• Develop and maintain the base building asset register.
• Review and develop site-specific maintenance tasks.
• Ensure drawing and O & M’s are updated to reflect any changes carried out to the installed systems.
• Develop, implement, and maintain site-specific plant replacement programme.
• To ensure that the production of engineering service specifications, contracts and associated documentation properly represent the service requirement of the premises and are presented and executed in accordance with company guidelines.
• Prepare contract documentation to include: tender documents, agreements and specifications.
• Manage tendering procedures.
• Analyse tenders.
• Undertake post tender interviews.
• Produce client contract placing report.
• Manage contractor closely during mobilisation period and through to completion.
• To ensure that the senior technical services manager, estate director and building management team are regularly appraised of any new developments or issues of a problematic nature.
• Report on any emergency incident that occurs.
• Report on any concerns relating to plant operation.
• Report on any tenant relationship related issue.
• Report any issue that could or will involve the HSE or EHO.
• To ensure that new buildings and areas of public realm are handed over in accordance with company guidelines and that all manuals are in place as soon as is reasonably practicable.
• Set up new utility contracts for handed over buildings and public realm as required.
• Conduct monthly utility recharges via billing platform.
• Report on energy usage as per reporting requirements.
• To ensure that the property's electronic security systems are fully operational and maintained as per the manufacturer's guidance and current best practice.
• Report on any concerns relating to plant operation.
• Liaise with the systems department as required, regarding contract specifications, maintenance regimes, auditing, equipment upgrades, documenting changes etc.
• Ensure maintenance contracts are in place.
• To ensure the requisite engineering standards executed in the management of buildings are commensurate with those standards promoted by the board and detailed in the operations manuals.
• Ensure adherence to company’s pathway to net zero carbon.

Qualifications

• Candidates will be fully qualified in either electrical or mechanical engineering, and with at least five years experience as a Technical / Engineering Services Manager.
• Ideally this experience will have been within the corporate or managing agent / real estate sector.
• Along with core M&E qualifications, additional training such as IOSH, NEBOSH or further education such as HND / Degree in an Engineering discipline will be beneficial.