At a Glance
- Tasks: Keep leisure centres running smoothly and safely while ensuring a great experience for customers.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking organisation dedicated to community wellbeing and sustainability.
- Benefits: Enjoy 25 days holiday, pension scheme, discounts, and access to wellness resources.
- Other info: Diverse and inclusive workplace with excellent career development opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a positive impact on your community while developing valuable technical skills.
- Qualifications: Trade qualification or hands-on experience in maintenance, with problem-solving skills.
The predicted salary is between 27664 - 27664 £ per year.
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.
£27,664 per annum + excellent benefits.
Ready to impact a better future? As a Technician in our Leisure Centres, you’ll help keep vital building systems running safely and efficiently, ensuring customers enjoy a high‑quality leisure environment every day. Your work will directly support the smooth operation of facilities that bring communities together. From maintaining essential plant to supporting energy‑efficient operations, your role will help create safe, comfortable, reliable spaces where people can stay active, connect, and thrive. You’ll play a part in delivering positive impact on communities while contributing to a sustainable and well‑managed future.
What You’ll Do As a Technician:
- Carry out planned preventative maintenance (PPM), servicing, and reactive repairs across building services systems and plant.
- Support the safe operation and basic maintenance of swimming pool water systems, including monitoring water quality.
- Respond promptly to faults and breakdowns, diagnosing issues and minimising disruption to operations.
- Assist with coordinating and overseeing specialist subcontractors, ensuring compliance with site and safety standards.
- Maintain accurate records using computer‑aided maintenance systems and compliance logs.
- Support day‑to‑day technical operations, helping to ensure safe, efficient, and reliable facility performance.
Does this sound like you?
- A recognised trade qualification or demonstrable hands‑on technical experience.
- Strong knowledge of health and safety practices within a maintenance or engineering environment.
- Experience working with building services systems and plant, ideally within leisure or similar settings.
- Good problem‑solving skills and the ability to diagnose faults effectively.
- Confidence using digital or computer‑based maintenance 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.
Benefits:
- 25 days plus bank holidays.
- Up to 6% contributory pension scheme.
- Over 1,100 internal courses available with funding.
- Employee assistance programme.
- Bupa Anytime HealthLine.
- Wellbeing app.
- 30% off at Serco‑managed leisure centres.
- 24/7 access to a virtual GP service.
- Discounts across 1,000 retailers.
- Paid volunteering day.
- Tax‑free charitable giving through Payroll Giving Scheme.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:
We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. We encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool and provide reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment. We are a disability confident leader and holder of the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard. We support fair access to employment for those with unspent criminal convictions through the ‘Ban the Box’ pledge.
