Critical Engineering Lead

ISS Facility Services UK; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Facilities Management provider in the UK is seeking a Critical Engineering Lead to manage the CEM system for major banking accounts. You will lead a small engineering team, ensuring governance and effectiveness in critical maintenance activities. Ideal candidates will have strong engineering credentials, experience in critical engineering, and a background in compliance. This role offers a competitive salary, bonus, and benefits, with potential for travel across the UK.

Benefits

Salary plus car allowance

Bonus

Private healthcare

Qualifications

• Strong level of engineering qualification, whether Electrical and/or Mechanical.
• Strong experience in Critical Engineering.
• Leadership of Managers or Senior Engineers.
• Background in operational engineering before progressing into compliance/auditing.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership over the Authorising Engineer team within the Account.
• Manage the CEM Product including its Administration and operational effectiveness.
• Lead Change Management within the CEM.
• Work closely with other Account SMEs, notably Asset Management staff.

Skills

Leadership

Critical Engineering

Compliance

Engineering Operations

Education

Engineering qualification (Electrical and/or Mechanical)

Job description

Overview

• Mon to Fri
• Salary plus car / allowance, bonus & private healthcare
• Home based with some travel to major client sites in the UK
• Leading a small Engineering team

Job Summary

Here at ISS as one of the UK's leading Facilities Management (FM) providers, we are looking to recruit a Critical Engineering Lead to manage the "Critical Environmental Management" (CEM) system underpinning critical engineering within a truly major banking account.

The Account consists of Retail, plus a sizeable and high profile corporate estate, encompassing a Canary Wharf Head Office, Mission Critical Campuses, a Data Centre and several smaller buildings dotted across the UK.

The criticality of these sites can be extremely high with any power outages at immense cost to the client financially and in reputation.

Therefore, a robust and comprehensive CEM is required to provide governance and control over all Critical Engineering maintenance activities.

You will be the Product Owner of the CEM, overseeing day to day function, Change Management, and to line manage the Authorising Engineers involved within the system.

Working as an SME on a massive Account you will be working with a wide range of technical stakeholders and reporting into the Account's Technical Director.

We are looking for a qualified engineer, with an appreciation for Engineering Operations, but has progressed into compliance within the Critical Engineering space, while remains keen on career progression.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership over the Authorising Engineer team within the Account, leading appointment and development.
• Manage the CEM Product including its Administration and operational effectiveness.
• Have leadership over Change Management within the CEM.
• Work closely with other Account SMEs notably Asset Mgmnt staff.

Qualifications

• A strong level of engineering qualification, whether Electrical and / or Mechanical.
• Strong experience of Critical Engineering.
• Leadership of Managers or Senior Engineers.
• Ideally, an operational engineering background before having progressed into compliance / auditing.