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Join Equans, a leading energies and services contractor and a proud member of the global industrial group, Bouygues. With a rich history of excellence in designing, constructing, and maintaining buildings and critical infrastructure worldwide, we are now offering exciting new opportunity for a Technical Services Manager within our Embedded Generation business.

Equans Embedded Generation operates multiple customer sites with large-scale embedded energy capacity across the UK, providing specialist management of onsite generation for industrial processes and the ability to export to the Grid. We combine multiple technologies to meet our customers’ specific needs, and provide design, build, operate and maintenance services. Our skills and expertise can help industrial businesses to achieve their carbon reduction goals.

We are experts in many technologies, including combined heat and power (CHP), biomass, and energy from waste. By locating generation on customers’ sites we provide our customers with industry leading safety management, reduced energy costs and carbon footprint and assured energy security for their operational needs.

General Overview:

The Technical Services Manager (TSM) will report to the Operations Manager. They will be the line manager for the on-site maintenance team (max. 6 technicians). The TSM will have a supervisory role of operations staff. They will act as a deputy for the Operations Manager in case of absence, holidays or work away from site.

The TSM will be responsible for the management of all maintenance carried out, both reactive and planned, on all items of plant within the Generating Station, including steam boilers, water treatment plant, gas fired CHP engines, medical air compressors, chilled water system, standby generators and ancillary equipment.

The TSM will ensure the plant is compliant with all relevant statutory requirements, industry good practice is followed and health, safety and environmental requirements are met through upkeep of a thorough and comprehensive CAFM system. They will support the operations manager to ensure that LGSC is audit-ready at all times.

Key activities

• Maintaining the plant to ensure compliance with appropriate safety and environmental standards, and statutory requirements including BG01/BG04, HTM’s and SFG20.
• Ensure plant-related routine duties and plant performance, availability and reliability are maintained
• Managing the legislative maintenance activities on-site, including ensuring that PSSR inspection requirements are undertaken, functional Safety tests are carried out, Legionella management, and ensure that statutory routines are programmed and carried out in line with the maintenance plan.
• Ensure correct application of the chosen safe systems of work
• Planning, organising and supervising maintenance activities utilising the CAFM.
• General day-to-day management of the on-site maintenance technicians.
• Leading the on-site technicians for maintenance, project work and outage preparation activities.
• Ensure data and records pertaining to site maintenance activities are compiled to the required standard, are retained and managed in a suitable electronic document management system
• Support the Operations Manager to identify, produce and maintain identified, required site documentation and procedures
• Form part of the escalation chain for managing safety and any emergency response plans in line with EQUANS and the end users policies.
• Liaising with internal and external customers.
• Managing the procurement of spares and consumables in line with the budget.
• Display behaviours and standards outlined in the Equans fundamentals.
• The role will be measured on H&S, O&M excellence and customer satisfaction.
• Line Manager for 5/6 Technicians/Site Administrator.

Skills, qualifications & experience

• Minimum HNC or equivalent in a relevant engineering discipline.
• Industrial Steam Boiler operations and maintenance experience (BOAS desirable)
• NEBOSH Cert, IOSH Managing safely or similar safety qualification (desirable)
• Operation & Maintenance of Utility Plant including Generation Equipment
• Leadership skills to balance financial, technical and people priorities
• Good presentation and communication skills
• Flexible and pro-active approach, both personally and by influencing others
• Customer and employee focussed
• Excellent IT skills and experience of operating a range of management systems

What can we offer you?

On offer is a competitive salary and benefits package, which includes;

• 25 days annual leave (+ public holidays)
• 5% bonus
• Private health
• Life Cover equivalent to 2 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 WiE (Women in EQUANS), RISE (BAME), LGBTQI+, Working Parents, YPN (Young Persons Network) and our Disability Network
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app

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 of a positive action drive to address under-representation in senior management positions 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.

In support of our positive action measures, we will consider applications that do not meet all the technical requirements if candidates can demonstrate how transferable skills will enable them to successfully deliver the remit of the role in an environment which promotes a flexible working culture.

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'll find a welcoming and open workplace where you're supported and encouraged to be your true self at work. You'll 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), Veterans & Reservists, WOMEN TOGETHER (representing women in Equans), Working Parents, and Young Professionals.