Location: James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, TS4 3BW Salary: Up to £43,000 per annum, plus excellent benefits Schedule: 8am – 4pm, Monday – Friday. Ready to impact a better future? As a Mechanical Lifecycle Works Project Manager in our UK and E Health team, you'll lead the delivery of Mechanical Lifecycle Works that help maintain a safe and reliable hospital environment. Your work will help ensure essential services operate smoothly, supporting uninterrupted care for the local community. You’ll play a key role in ensuring Mechanical Lifecycle projects are well planned, well delivered, and aligned to high clinical, operational, and safety standards. By helping keep critical hospital infrastructure functioning at its best, you’ll be making a positive impact where it matters most. What you’ll do as a Mechanical Lifecycle Works Project Manager You’ll be entrusted to: Manage and deliver Trust‑initiated Mechanical Lifecycle Works projects, ensuring compliance with time, cost, and quality requirements. Support planning, design, and implementation of SPV (Special Purpose Vehicle) Lifecycle project works, interfacing with Estates and Facilities colleagues. Prepare tender documentation and evaluate tender returns for Mechanical Lifecycle Works. Provide assessment reports on asset condition and identify works necessary to maintain required maintenance standards. Participate in environmental and estates condition audits and input into the Annual Programme of works. Liaise with the SPV, Trust representatives, external consultants, and contractors to support successful project delivery. Carry out assigned Authorised or Responsible Person duties for Mechanical disciplines. Deputise for the Lifecycle Manager when required. Does this sound like you? You’ll be a great fit for this role if you have… Experience working within Private Finance Initiative (PFI) environments, ideally in healthcare. Strong operational and project delivery experience within Hard FM (Facilities Management), including pre‑ and post‑tender activities. The ability to interpret technical issues and propose effective solutions across Mechanical and Capital schemes. Well‑developed financial and analytical skills, with the ability to work with complex data and produce detailed reports. Excellent communication and diplomacy skills, working collaboratively with internal teams and external partners. Vetting and checks: This role requires a Basic DBS check, which will disclose any unspent convictions in line with the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. You will also complete an Occupational Health Questionnaire to help us identify and provide any support you may need to undertake the role effectively. 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What we offer Holidays: 25 days plus bank holidays Pension: Up to 6% contributory pension scheme Training and development: Over 1,100 internal courses available, funding for qualifications and apprenticeships (including L3 Team Leader and L5 Operations Manager apprenticeships), mentoring opportunities, and a focus on internal progression Health and wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme, Bupa Anytime HealthLine, wellbeing app, 30% off at Serco‑managed leisure centres, and 24/7 access to a virtual GP service Discounts: Discounts across around 1,000 retailers, from food and clothing to days out, entertainment and travel Charity: Paid volunteering day, tax‑free charitable giving through Payroll Giving Scheme, donate your pennies from your monthly pay to the Serco People Fund Charity Employee networks: Our networks support inclusion and connection by providing spaces for collaboration, learning, and belonging. They represent and empower all our colleagues including LGBTQIA employees, women, parents and carers, people with disabilities, veterans, and people from all cultural backgrounds. Let’s impact a better future, together. Apply today. About Serco At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services. We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world in areas including defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare and citizen services. We are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone. By joining Serco you will have unlimited access to our Global Employee Networks – SercoInspire (Gender), SercoEmbrace (Multicultural), SercoUnlimited (Disability) and In@Serco (LGBT & Networks). Serco Employee Networks, led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging. Apply Please click on the apply button to complete your application. Occasionally we receive a large volume of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment. At Serco, we see people first and foremost for their performance and potential. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates and strongly encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool. We are open to discussions around flexibility and flexible working. We operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas. We are proudly Disability Confident Leader employers and holder of the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard. 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