Technical Officer Mechanical Projects Hybrid working - Home and Leicester City Offices

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

Job reference REQ6179 Date posted 14/10/2025 Application closing date 09/11/2025 Location Hybrid working - Home and Leicester City Offices Salary £42,839 - £46,142 per year Package Total benefit value (includes pension contribution and full holiday entitlement) £62,918 Contractual hours 37 Basis Full time Job category/type Project Management Attachments Job Specification - 2024-08-06T212254.626 (7).pdf

Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent

Join us in achieving our goal of providing well maintained, compliant buildings.

With a strong background in construction or maintenance of Mechanical Building Systems, you'll play a key role in managing the delivery of projects, primarily within commercial properties.

Our Estates and Building Service are a professional, multi-disciplinary service, offering a varied workload and an array of opportunities. We have a large and diverse portfolio of property including listed buildings & scheduled monuments, educational buildings, and leisure facilities, to name a few.

What you'll be doing

• You'll provide specialist advice & support across the property portfolio, specifying or coordinating the design of systems including maintenance and testing requirements.
• Managing the delivery of a variety of projects with a bias towards mechanical systems, whilst working within agreed budgets and timescales.
• With excellent people skills, you'll confidently engage with stakeholders including internal colleagues, clients, contractors as well as regulatory bodies.
• With drive and ambition, you'll identify opportunities for modern technology solutions to reduce the carbon footprint of the estate and help address the climate emergency.
• Using strong analytical skills and detailed technical knowledge of building systems compliance, you'll review costings, to deliver best practice.

You'll hold an MIWFM or be able to demonstrate extensive experience and qualifications within a discipline relevant to the role. It is essential that you hold a full UK driving licence and be able to travel frequently between locations.

This is a full-time, permanent post working 37 hours per week from Monday to Friday. Based at City Hall, you'll have the flexibility to work from home or on-site and be required to travel to construction locations in and around Leicester.

So, what can we offer you?

You'll work in an environment that offers plenty of opportunities to develop your expertise, trusts your judgement and encourages you to build a long and rewarding career. Therefore, we are prepared to invest in the right candidate. On top of a competitive salary, you can lookforward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance.

• Bank holidays, plus 5 weeks paid holiday entitlement per year.
• Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme.
• Option of flexibleworking.
• A variety of trainingand development opportunities.
• Staff discounts for shopping and gym memberships.
• Severalflexible benefits,including discounts on city buses and trains.

If you feel like you are the right candidate who wants to come on this journey with us, then we would like to hear from you.

This is an open advert therefore we will complete the short listing soon after receiving your application. If short listed, you'll be called for an assessment and/or interview thereafter.