Mechanical Maintenance Technical Manager

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 the role

At Tesco, everything we do starts with people — our customers, our colleagues, and the communities we serve. To keep our stores safe, legal, and fully operational, we rely on talented engineering professionals who can lead with expertise and deliver with purpose.

We’re now looking for a Mechanical Maintenance Technical Manager to take ownership of our mechanical maintenance discipline across the UK retail estate. If you’re passionate about engineering excellence, continuous improvement, and making a real impact at scale, this could be the role for you.

As our Mechanical Maintenance Technical Manager, you’ll be accountable for driving the strategy, standards, and performance of all mechanical assets across our estate — including automatic doors, loading bay equipment, shutters, and associated systems.

You’ll act as the national subject matter expert, supporting our field teams and ensuring our stores remain safe, compliant, and functioning for customers and colleagues.

The Hiring Manager for this role is Daniel Villiers.

You will be responsible for

• Leading the national Mechanical Maintenance discipline strategy, setting and enforcing technical standards, governance frameworks, and best‑practice processes.

• Acting as the technical authority for mechanical systems — providing expert guidance, escalation support, and clear direction to field teams and stakeholders.

• Ensuring full statutory and regulatory compliance across all mechanical assets, including Machine Directive, LOLER, and relevant ACOPs such as DHF.

• Driving asset performance and availability for automatic doors, gates, loading bays, and shutters — minimising downtime and ensuring service levels are consistently achieved.

• Supporting contractor performance management, including tender reviews, KPI analysis, failure trend insights, and year‑on‑year improvements in cost, compliance, and reliability.

• Developing and optimising the Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) strategy, ensuring maintenance regimes are technically robust, risk‑based, and aligned to asset lifecycle principles.

• Leading root cause analysis for recurring failures and implementing estate‑wide corrective and preventative actions.

• Owning mechanical cost performance, identifying efficiency opportunities and delivering sustainable save‑to‑invest initiatives without compromising safety or standards.

• Overseeing mechanical parts and obsolescence strategy, ensuring critical spares and contingency plans are in place.

• Delivering the annual Mechanical Discipline Improvement Plan, incorporating innovation, process enhancement, and service improvements.

• Ensuring high professional standards in the delivery and close‑out of planned and reactive works.

• Building strong cross‑functional relationships, communicating technical risks, performance metrics, and improvement initiatives clearly and confidently.

• Leading national mechanical engineering improvement projects, driving standardisation and best practice across all sites.

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You will need

• Degree‑qualified in an engineering discipline or time‑served equivalent.

• Professional registration (e.g., EngTech, IEng, CEng) or working towards it.

• Significant leadership experience within a technical or maintenance engineering environment.

• Advanced knowledge of mechanical, hydraulic, control, loading bay, automated gate, and shutter systems.

• Experience managing engineering operations across a large, multi‑site or remote estate.

• Strong senior stakeholder management skills.

• Proven track record of engineering innovation and continuous improvement.

• Understanding of asset lifecycle management and maintenance methodologies.

• Demonstrable experience in mechanical operation, maintenance, and compliance.

About us

You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award-winning mobile network. Truth is, we’re all of those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.

At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

We're proud to be an accredited Disability Confident Leader, where everyone’s welcome. That’s why we commit to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you need support with your application, click here for more information. And if you're interested in joining our team but don't tick every box, don't let that hold you back from applying.