Building Services Maintenance Manager

About the Role

AirconTech HVAC Engineering UK Ltd is looking for an experienced, organised and technically strong Building Services Maintenance Manager to oversee planned and reactive maintenance activities across commercial and industrial building-services systems.

The successful candidate will manage maintenance schedules, coordinate engineering resources, monitor contractor and supplier performance, support technical problem-solving and ensure that HVAC, mechanical and associated building systems operate safely, efficiently and reliably.

This role is suitable for an experienced building-services, HVAC or facilities-maintenance professional who is ready to take ownership of maintenance delivery, engineering standards, customer relationships and team performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead planned and reactive building-services maintenance activities
• Develop and maintain preventive maintenance schedules
• Coordinate HVAC, mechanical and associated engineering work
• Allocate work to service engineers and technical staff
• Prioritise maintenance activities based on operational requirements
• Monitor completion of planned maintenance tasks
• Coordinate responses to breakdowns and urgent service requests
• Review outstanding maintenance work and technical risks
• Manage service schedules across multiple customer locations
• Ensure maintenance activities are completed within agreed timescales
• Monitor HVAC system reliability and performance
• Oversee air-conditioning maintenance programmes
• Coordinate maintenance of VRF and VRV systems
• Support chiller and chilled-water system maintenance
• Oversee air-handling unit servicing
• Coordinate pump, motor and ventilation maintenance
• Support building-management system activities
• Review technical faults and recurring equipment failures
• Lead root-cause analysis of significant technical issues
• Recommend corrective and preventive maintenance actions
• Review service reports submitted by engineers
• Verify that technical documentation is complete and accurate
• Maintain asset and equipment maintenance records
• Develop equipment-specific maintenance strategies
• Monitor asset condition and lifecycle requirements
• Identify equipment approaching end of life
• Support capital-replacement planning
• Prepare recommendations for major repairs and upgrades
• Coordinate equipment replacement projects
• Support commissioning of new or upgraded systems
• Review technical quotations and scopes of work
• Coordinate external contractors where specialist support is required
• Monitor contractor quality and performance
• Manage relationships with equipment and parts suppliers
• Review spare-parts requirements
• Support procurement of maintenance materials and equipment
• Monitor maintenance budgets and expenditure
• Review labour, materials and contractor costs
• Identify opportunities to reduce unnecessary maintenance expenditure
• Support energy-efficiency and system-optimisation initiatives
• Monitor service-level performance
• Develop maintenance KPIs and performance reports
• Analyse breakdown frequency and response times
• Present maintenance performance to management and customers
• Support customer review meetings
• Maintain clear communication with key customer contacts
• Ensure customer concerns are investigated promptly
• Coordinate planned shutdown and maintenance activities
• Maintain contingency plans for critical building systems
• Lead continuous improvement of maintenance operations

Leadership and Management Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate service engineers and maintenance personnel
• Allocate daily and weekly engineering workloads
• Monitor team productivity and service quality
• Provide technical guidance on complex faults
• Support engineers with troubleshooting and escalation
• Review individual and team performance
• Coach engineers on maintenance standards and procedures
• Identify training and development requirements
• Support onboarding of new technical staff
• Promote safe and professional working practices
• Lead maintenance and engineering meetings
• Coordinate communication between technical and operational teams
• Manage competing customer and operational priorities
• Escalate significant engineering risks appropriately
• Promote accountability for completion of maintenance tasks
• Support workforce and resource planning

Qualifications and Experience

• Degree, HND, NVQ or professional qualification in Building Services Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, HVAC, Refrigeration or a related discipline
• At least five years of experience in building services, HVAC or technical maintenance
• Experience coordinating or supervising maintenance teams
• Strong understanding of planned preventive maintenance
• Practical knowledge of commercial HVAC systems
• Experience managing reactive maintenance activities
• Strong fault-finding and technical problem-solving skills
• Understanding of air-conditioning and refrigeration systems
• Experience with mechanical building-services equipment
• Ability to interpret technical drawings and engineering documentation
• Experience reviewing maintenance reports and service records
• Strong understanding of asset-management principles
• Experience coordinating external contractors
• Strong customer and stakeholder-management skills
• Good commercial and budget awareness
• Strong organisational and planning abilities
• Ability to manage multiple customer sites and priorities
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Confidence providing technical direction to engineers
• Full UK driving licence
• Right to work in the United Kingdom

Pay: £36,000.00-£50,000.00 per year

Work Location: In person