Lead National Technical Manager

As a Lead National Technical Manager, you’ll play a strategic and vital part in keeping our stores safe, legal and fully operational for our customers and colleagues, overseeing multiple technical disciplines across a national estate. You will be accountable for the direct leadership of a high-performing team of technical specialists and service support engineers, with full ownership of a £5m budget and associated supplier contracts. You'll be accountable for the delivery of large-scale national programmes and projects exceeding £5m across Mechanical Assets, Electrical LV & HV Infrastructure, Building services, CCTV and Security. Oversees end-to-end planning, resource allocation, governance, and performance reporting, while managing supplier relationships and contract performance to ensure operational excellence, compliance, and value for money.

The Hiring Manager for this role is Daniel Villiers.

You will be responsible for:

Strategic Direction: Lead technical improvement programs aligned with Tesco’s operational, compliance, environmental, and safety goals. Stay ahead of regulatory changes through market insights and industry networks.
People Leadership: Coach and empower a team of technical experts, driving high performance, accountability, and engagement while embedding Tesco values.
Financial Oversight: Manage a £5m+ annual budget, ensuring accurate forecasting, cost efficiency, and effective contract negotiations with procurement.
Technical Governance: Oversee standards, documentation, and compliance for installations, commissioning, and emergency plans. Act as business lead on enforcement and litigation avoidance.
Collaboration & Standardisation: Partner with Engineering, Safety, and Legal teams to harmonize technical disciplines and champion standardisation for efficiency and repeatable solutions.
Performance & Analytics: Use data to measure program impact, prioritize improvements, and communicate results to senior stakeholders.
Culture & Development: Foster a collaborative, accountable culture and lead initiatives that embed learning and continuous improvement.

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You will need:

• Qualified to degree level in mechanical / electrical engineering

• Considerable and demonstrable technical, mechanical and electrical experience and thorough understanding of discipline specific statutory legal compliance.

• Hold professional registration to IEng / CEng level (Desirable)

• Experience in a similar scale remote / site maintenance engineering business

• Senior stakeholder management and Influencing skills

• Advanced technical knowledge and understanding of hard services categories

• Engineering Innovation through collaboration with stakeholders

• Knowledge of asset life cycle management and maintenance methodologies / RCM / predictive maintenance strategies

• Experienced in lean methodologies, RCA and PM techniques

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