Engineering Controls Manager

As our Engineering Controls Manager, you’ll play a key role in shaping the future of our controls and building management systems across our stores and distribution centres. You’ll help us deliver safe, efficient and future ready environments for colleagues and customers by developing world class standards, driving innovation, and ensuring our platforms are fit for today and tomorrow.

You’ll be the expert in your field—often the first layer of management for people or projects—and you’ll bring energy, curiosity and technical leadership to everything you do.

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

You will be responsible for:

Identifying opportunities to develop and improve our engineering controls platforms, ensuring they remain robust, modern and scalable.
Creating and maintaining world class technical standards that support delivery of the annual Property business plan.
Working cross functionally with technical, operational, IT and Property teams to deliver Group technical standards consistently and effectively.
Understanding our existing controls platforms and collaborating with colleagues to shape short, medium and long term development plans.
Driving continuous improvement by finding better, simpler and more cost effective solutions that create value for customers and the business.
Building strong, productive relationships with industry experts, suppliers and internal stakeholders, influencing others to deliver great results.
Ensuring the right technical solutions are in place to meet the current and future needs of our stores and distribution centres.
Bringing new ideas and technical innovation to keep our controls strategy aligned with industry best practice and emerging technologies.
Creating business cases to support trials and initiatives within your product group, contributing to energy reduction and operational improvement plans.
Leading or supporting project design and delivery, including writing specifications within the controls and BMS sector.
Applying a strong understanding of industry standards and relevant legislation to ensure compliance and best practice across the estate.

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You will need:

Experience in engineering controls, BMS or related technical fields.
A track record of delivering technical projects, writing specifications and managing suppliers.
Strong communication and influencing skills—you energise others and bring people with you.
A continuous improvement mindset, always looking for ways to simplify, improve and innovate.
The ability to balance customer needs, business priorities and long term strategic thinking.
Confidence working cross functionally and building relationships at all levels.
A passion for delivering great results, bringing technical innovation and new ideas, ensuring the business stays up to date.

What's in it for you:

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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