Maintenance Manager

What’s in it for you

We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work! These include but are not limited to:

• Annual bonus scheme.
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus 8 Bank holidays).
• Retirement savings plan
• Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home.
• Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.

Click here to read more about the benefits we have available for our colleagues.

About the role

Accountable for the delivery of Maintenance in Tesco Distribution Centre at Didcot/Southampton. Managing a team of circa 10 multi skilled technicians covering  HVAC, Electrical, Mechanical, Building, Refrigeration,  Working collaboratively with all functions inside Property and our external contractors.

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

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:

·        Delivering great standards across the site.

·        Putting community, customer, and planet at the heart of everything I do.

·        Building effective relationships and communication across all functions and with key stakeholders.

·        Attending DCM Meetings, working day to day with DC Management.

·        Delivering change across business areas to consistently deliver performance and improve productivity.

·        Delivering great results with year-on-year improvement.

·        Driving problem solving, identifying key issues, and developing effective solutions.

·        Managing the workload and capacity of my team.

·        Forecasting and managing my budgets effectively, always being cost conscious.

·        Locally managing contractor’s performance on site to ensure first fix.

·        Collaborating with the rest of the business to ensure the solutions are truly co-developed and owned at a local level.

·        Developing, leading, and coaching a high performing team, giving them the opportunities to be their best.

·        Effectively using the insight developed to shape strategic thinking and identifying potential opportunities.

·        Being a custodian of Health and Safety.

·        Driving the diversity and inclusive agenda throughout my team.

·        Delivering KPI'S and implementing improvement plans when they are not achieved.

·        Escalation management.

·        Ensuring that all legal and compliance standards are met as a minimum and exceeded where possible.

·        Delivering great brand through the team, uniform, service and work standards

• Driving the team through the Maintenance Pathway to business required levels

You will need

• Communication and stakeholder management
• Lead a diverse and remote team
• Building internal and external networks
• Analysis of data to achieve timely decisions
• Financial competency
• Computer literacy – EAM, Office 365
• Change management
• Problem solving and root cause analysis
• Influencing skills

• Previous Technical and Maintenance Engineering Experience.

• Experience in a similar scale remote facilities or maintenance business

• Demonstrated operational success in people leadership and development.

• Technical qualification in either HVAC, Electrical, Mechanical, refrigeration or Building.

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.  

Everything we do in Tesco Maintenance is focused on supporting continuous improvement to the overall shopping experience for our customers.

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. Please talk to us about how this can work for you - Everyone is welcome at Tesco.