Head of Maintenance - North

What’s in it for you

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• Annual bonus scheme of up to 45% of base salary
• Car Cash Allowance
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• Retirement savings plan - save between 6% - 10% and Tesco will contribute 1.5 times this amount
• 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

About the role

We know life looks a little different for each of us. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome chats about flexible working. 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. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

At Tesco Property Maintenance, we’re on the lookout for a leader who will champion the maintenance operations across the Northern UK regions. This pivotal role goes beyond traditional oversight; it’s about crafting a vision for maintenance that integrates both operational excellence and innovative technical solutions.

We are looking for an individual who will be able to set the strategic direction within Tesco Property Maintenance and act as a vital part of the functional leadership team, consistently inspiring change, improvement and innovation.

You will be responsible for

• Encouraging and leading a large team across the region, supporting them to build highly motivated, diverse, and inclusive capable teams across your areas.
• Define and implementing plans that drive business performance always planning.
• Working collaboratively with internal and external partners to build successful teams and building effective relationships with partners and peers.
• Owning, leading, and negotiating for resources, including budgets & forecasting to reflect changing priorities.
• Responsible for the talent agenda – making decisions on strategic development and use of internal/ external capability.
• Leading, mentoring and nurturing the team to put customers and colleagues at the heart of what we do, where everyone knows their purpose and ensuring we are service, and customer led at all times.
• Ensuring your team are passionate about providing the tools, training, and direction to all our colleagues & working hard to embed an environment in which our colleagues want to work beneficially and collaboratively
• Being a custodian of health and safety across the business, following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence.

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You will need

• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Previous experience within a facilities management or retail environment, running & leading a multi-disciplined delivery function.
• Ensure successful delivery of process improvement initiatives
• Excellent team player, able to develop positive relationships with colleagues, teams, and peers.
• Commercially aware and able to understand budgets.
• Customer focused.
• Clear understanding of service delivery & maintenance
•  Consistent record of developing vast, successful teams.
• Awareness and experience of safe & legal compliance

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.