Director of Technical Solutions

Director of Technical Solutions

Hard FM Services

Kent

Salary guide - £80,000 to £100,000

Insight Executive are pleased to be working with this client again on another key hire to the leadership team, for their recruitment of a Director of Technical Solutions. In the role of Director of Technical Solutions, you will lead the delivery of engineering services across the entire estate, ensuring that buildings are safe, compliant, resilient, and well maintained.

This strategic role gives the autonomy for defining, executing and monitoring a number of business-critical strategies including - Site Infrastructure master-planning, technical leadership, long term maintenance programme, capital investment design oversight, statutory and mandatory compliance delivery, and the development of engineering best practice.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop programmes for embedding Operational Excellence within the minds of the operational engineering management and site team, and primary supply partners.
• Identify and develop operational best practices and drive alignment through procedural alignment, development, training, and quality assurance programs.
• Engage a coaching and mentoring approach to the Continuous Improvement of all Health and Safety, Operational Excellence, Critical Environments activities across the portfolio.
• Delivering consistent and high performing resources globally through competencies, processes and procedures.
• Proactively identifying opportunities to introduce processes and practices that result in cost savings and performance efficiency across the business.
• Assist the Director Strategic operations and site General Management leadership team(s) develop programmes and annual budgets for operational spend.
• Ensure the service provided by the business into the parent Trust remain compliant with all current Health and Safety and Legal Requirements

About YouAn experienced leader with strong commercial engineering knowledge, you’ll have demonstrable experience of embedding a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence in a Lean critical environment.Key Requirements

• Extensive experience of leading and managing the development and implementation of estates strategy to support an organisation’s corporate strategy.
• High level of knowledge and experience in commercial Engineering processes and healthcare engineering best practice.
• Considerable technical knowledge within own profession plus wide understanding of allied disciplines including commissioning and project management. HTM / HBN technical understanding.
• Strong ability to influence and motivate at all levels of a business, with the drive to see through change.
• A clear Safety-first ethos, with a deep knowledge of Health and Safety management.
• In depth knowledge of Operational Excellence principles and demonstrable use through continuous improvement.