Electrical & Lighting Engineering Manager

At Tesco, we’re proud to put customers at the heart of everything we do. As an Electrical & Lighting Engineering Manager, you’ll work closely with stakeholders and technical suppliers across the group to deliver innovative, sustainable solutions that create real value for our customers. You’ll play a key role in shaping our long-term engineering strategy—ensuring our stores are well-lit, energy-efficient, and fit for the future.

The Hiring Manager for this role is Matthew Reeves-Smith.

You will be responsible for:

Identifying opportunities to develop and improve equipment within your product groups, ensuring our stores are equipped with reliable, efficient, and future-ready solutions.
Creating and maintaining world-class standards that support the delivery of the annual Property business plan, helping us build better stores for our customers and colleagues.
Working cross-functionally with stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery and consistent application of Group technical standards.
Understanding equipment performance and collaborating with colleagues to explore root causes of issues—developing proposals that inform short, medium, and long-term plans.
Driving continuous improvement by finding ways to deliver better, simpler, and more cost-effective solutions across your product areas.
Building strong relationships with industry experts, colleagues, and stakeholders across Retail and Property—energising and influencing others to deliver great results together.
Ensuring the correct application of technical standards for all electrical and lighting equipment, supporting safe and efficient store operations.
Bringing technical innovation and fresh ideas to keep Tesco at the forefront of engineering excellence.
Acting as the notified Electrical Duty Holder for Tesco Engineering, ensuring compliance and safety across all electrical systems.

You will need:

Experience of project design and delivery, writing specifications in this sector.
Good understanding of industry standards and relevant legislation.
Understands Health & Safety and how to best approach specifications to deliver easy to maintain products.
Degree level, HNC or IET qualified

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:

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is 'Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day'. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We're a big business with diverse working patterns and many business areas which means that we can find something that works for you. Everyone is welcome at Tesco.

We have recently announced that we will be moving towards a more blended working week – combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. Please talk to us to about how this can work for you.

NOTE: Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details on your agreed start date.

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 visit https://www.tesco-careers.com/accessibility