Mechanical Maintenance Technical Manager - 12 Month FTC

Salary: Competitive

Location: National

United Kingdom

Apply by: 24/12/2024


Mechanical Maintenance Technical Manager - 12 Month FTC

National

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About the role

At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. So, during your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in one of our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We also recognise that life looks a little different for each of us. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome a conversation about flexible working. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

Accountable for the Mechanical Maintenance, exceptional service, and store standards across circa 3600 retail sites. driving the maintenance strategy and improvements.  Providing support to the Mechanical field teams ensuring a safe, Legal, compliant and functioning estate for customers, retail colleagues & stakeholders. 

You will be responsible for

Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence and have these specific risk responsibilities: 

  • Periodic review of contractor day to day performance as well as representing the Operations team at contractor performance meetings. 
  • Provide the resource and expertise that drives health and safety, compliance and Tactical plans that needs a consistent approach across all regions. 
  • Ensuring a consistent approach across processes. 
  • Provide daily technical support for all work including escalations that require expert input. 
  • Lead the process and technological improvements across this area of the business. 
  • Provide technical input for planned maintenance developments & regularly review content and effectiveness. 
  • Input into planned maintenance implementation across the technical teams
  • Provide expertise relating to parts holding, obsolete parts and temporary solutions. 
  • Driving problem solving, including identifying key and common issues, and developing effective solutions cross functionally. 
  • Provide exceptional service and standards, demonstrating clear year on year reductions in our cost lines. 
  • Provide a national view of Mechanical compliance and legal issues to senior stakeholders with defined actions for resolutions and improvement in line with relevant British and European standards.
  • Investigate KPI trends and develop plans to deliver year on year improvements. 
  • Support Loading Bay, Shutters and Lifts and Escalators delivery and availability targets  
  • Support the relevant compliance requirements for Loading Bay, Shutters and Lifts and Escalators
  • Building effective relationships and communicating clearly with stakeholders, managing expectations where required. 
  • Leading and implementation of technical improvements and projects across the category 
  • Delivering great standards across the estate and ensuring compliance to all internal policies and applicable legislation. 
  • Developing and delivering an annual improvement plan. 
  • Ensure that the execution and close out of planned maintenance and reactive tasks is to a high professional standard. 

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You will need

Operational skills relevant for this job:

  • Communication and stakeholder management 
  • Building internal and external networks 
  • Analysis of data to achieve timely decisions 
  • Computer literacy – EAM, Office 365 
  • Change management   
  • Advanced problem solving, including root cause analysis 
  • Project management 

Experience relevant for this job: 

  • Considerable and demonstrable Leadership, Technical and Maintenance Engineering experience 
  • Experience in a similar scale remote / site maintenance engineering business 
  • Effective multi-directional influencing skills  
  • Senior stakeholder management 
  • Degree / HND Qualified in Engineering discipline
  • Advanced technical knowledge and understanding of Mechanical, Hydraulic, PLC Controls logic, Loading Bay,  Shutter systems and Lifts and escalators.
  • Engineering Innovation 
  • Knowledge of asset life cycle management and maintenance methodologies 
  • Hold professional registration.  
  • Mechanical operation, maintenance, and compliance experience with knowledge of  British and European standards related to technical discipline.

What’s in it for you

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!

  • Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
  • Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
  • Private medical insurance
  • 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
  • Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

About us

At Tesco Property – Maintenance, it’s our people that make us one of the leading retail maintenance providers in the UK. We operate in over 3,500 Tesco and One Stop stores, distribution centres, Tesco banks and head offices, to deliver first class maintenance and engineering solutions and support.  

With our comprehensive induction and our technical competency plan, we invest in training for our field colleagues to have the right level of skills and expertise for each role to work safely and provide first-rate asset management across our estate. We create a culture where every colleague is competent, motivated and professional, maximising the level of support we offer to Tesco stores. 

From multi-skilled, to technically-savvy technicians, we’ve got it covered. Our Operations and Maintenance Managers span the entirety of the UK; technically-minded individuals who support our field engineers to get the job done.  Our Engineering team work to introduce a broad spectrum of award-winning new technological initiatives; from compliance testing to refrigeration, security to sustainability.  

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern -combining office and remote working.  Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.

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