Technical Lift Manager
Location: Nationwide Travel & Overnight Stays Required
£56,110.60 per annum, and a car allowance off £9,800.73 per annum
35 hours per week
When you join Sanctuary Care, you’re joining an award-winning team where colleagues and residents truly matter. We’re proud winners of the 2025 Nursing Times Award for Care of Older People and the 2025 Care Home Awards Best for Training and Development, and Outstanding Larger Care Home Group.
Are you an experienced lift engineering professional who’s ready to lead a major, high impact programme? Do you want to shape the future of lift safety, compliance and modernisation across a national organisation providing vital housing, accommodation and care services?
We’re looking for a Technical Lift Manager to take ownership of our lift renewal and servicing programmes — ensuring safety, compliance, innovation and exceptional customer experience at every step.
Your Role:
• Leading the project management of lift replacement programmes, ensuring value for money and an excellent customer experience.
• Overseeing lift servicing, compliance and maintenance activities, ensuring safe working and strong performance.
• Preparing specifications, tender documents and conducting value for money assessments.
• Providing expert advice on lift regulations, standards, safety and compliance across the Group.
• Supporting the development of lift installation and modernisation standards, guidance and commissioning procedures.
• Monitoring lift servicing performance, conducting audits and identifying improvements.
• Keeping up to date with lift regulations and health & safety best practice.
• Building effective relationships with internal stakeholders, engineers, contractors and service users.
• Supporting wider reinvestment and development programmes.
• Contributing to Group wide initiatives and continuous improvement activity.
Your Skills:
• Level 3 NVQ in Engineering Maintenance (Lift Servicing/Repair or Installation)
• Level 4 Certificate in Lift & Escalator Testing (or equivalent)
• CIBSE membership (or working towards)
• Extensive lift engineering/technical experience with strong knowledge of Lift Regulations 2016, EN81 and related legislation
• Skilled in fault diagnosis, solutions implementation and lift risk management
• Experienced in contract administration, stakeholder management and report writing
• Supports design/specification reviews and works effectively with project teams
• People management experience, including staff development and motivation
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, negotiation and presentation skills
• Able to interpret building design plans
• Intermediate Microsoft 365 proficiency
• High standards of customer care and professionalism
Your rewards:
You deserve more than the basics. That’s why, alongside 28 days’ annual leave pro rata (including bank holidays), occupational sick pay linked to length of service, and a contributory pension, we’ve created a package to help you thrive:
• Health and wellbeing support – including Aviva Digicare+ with virtual GP appointments, plus an Employee Assistance Programme offering medical, financial, and legal advice, as well as short-term counselling
• Company-paid life insurance
• Enhanced Parental leave arrangements and annual leave purchase scheme
• Company-funded training and ongoing career development opportunities, including our Team Leader Development Programme
• Flexible working options and an inclusive culture where everyone belongs, supported by our staff networks including PRISM, Disability, Race Equality and Parent networks
• Exclusive retail discounts, Cycle to Work, and salary sacrifice arrangements
Some rewards are subject to a qualifying period or other criteria – visit our website for more information.
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We can only accept applications from individuals with the right to work in the UK.
All roles require safeguarding and pre-employment checks, including criminal records and overseas police checks if needed; for more information, please get in touch.
Internal candidates should apply via their internal careers account.
We may close this advert early, so please apply as soon as possible.
Inclusion is one of our core values We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive organisation where everyone can thrive. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and will make reasonable adjustments throughout the
We are Sanctuary.
We were set up more than 50 years ago and now provide housing and care in England and Scotland to more than a quarter of a million people, owning and managing around 120,000 units of accommodation. We exist to serve our customers and communities.
Our mission is to build affordable homes and sustainable communities where people choose to live.
We are a not-for-profit housing association, which means we don’t make profits for shareholders. Instead we invest all the income we make – every penny – into delivering on our social purpose.
We play our part in tackling the national housing crisis by building good quality affordable homes all over the UK. We build to a wide variety of needs and styles, with the aim of creating or adding to a sustainable community. Our regeneration projects transform communities by listening to residents and putting their needs first.
Social housing is at the core of what we do, and we believe secure, good quality accommodation can be the foundation that enables people to achieve their goals in life.
