Technical Manager

Shape the Future of Healthcare Estates

Sodexo is seeking an experienced and forward-thinking Technical Manager to lead the delivery of Hard FM services at Wythenshawe Hospital — a complex, high-profile acute healthcare environment. This is not just an operational role. We are looking for a strategic leader who can drive performance, lead compliance excellence, and influence stakeholders across a multi-partner PFI contract landscape. You will play a key role in ensuring that critical estate services are not only maintained but continually improved to support outstanding patient care.

• Strategic service delivery: Lead the optimisation of PPM and reactive maintenance programmes to improve service efficiency, asset performance, and contract outcomes.
• Compliance & governance leadership: Ensure full statutory compliance across the estate, embedding best practice aligned to HTMs, HBNs, and regulatory frameworks.
• Stakeholder influence: Build trusted relationships with NHS Trust representatives, Project Co, and internal teams to deliver aligned, high-performing services.
• Performance & continuous improvement: Use data, KPIs, and audit outcomes to identify improvement opportunities and drive measurable service enhancements.
• People leadership: Develop and lead multi-disciplinary engineering teams, fostering capability, accountability, and a strong safety culture.
• Contract and commercial awareness: Operate effectively within a PFI framework, understanding risk, compliance obligations, and service delivery requirements.

This is a strategic influence role within a major healthcare contract
, offering you the opportunity to:

• Shape how technical services are delivered across a live hospital environment
• Lead compliance across critical infrastructure and life safety systems
• Influence long-term asset management and lifecycle planning decisions
• Partner directly with senior stakeholders across Sodexo, the Trust, and PFI partners

We’re keen to speak to candidates who bring both technical depth and strategic capability
, including:

• A recognised qualification in Mechanical, Electrical, or Building Engineering
• Proven experience managing Hard FM services within a complex environment (healthcare highly desirable).
• Strong understanding of statutory compliance, HTMs, and safe systems of work
• Experience operating within PFI or similar contract frameworks
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams, manage subcontractors, and deliver through others
• A proactive, solution-led mindset with the confidence to challenge and improve existing ways of working

• 100% statutory compliance across all technical services
• High-performing maintenance delivery against KPIs
• Strong, collaborative client and stakeholder relationships
• A culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence

• The opportunity to lead within a mission-critical healthcare environment
• Exposure to complex estates and major infrastructure systems
• A role with genuine strategic impact and visibility
• Career development within a leading global FM provider

If you’re a technically strong leader ready to step into a strategic role where you can influence, improve, and lead at scale — we’d love to hear from you.