Senior Property Engineering Lead

Lloyds Banking Group; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services organization in the UK seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to oversee engineering standards and ensure compliance across its property portfolio. The role involves collaboration with stakeholders to drive innovation, efficiency, and operational excellence, while championing sustainable engineering practices. Adept leadership and extensive experience in building services are essential.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes

30 days holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in building services engineering, ideally within large-scale or complex estates.
• Proven track record of developing and implementing engineering standards.
• Familiar with regulatory compliance and industry best practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain technical standards for building services.
• Lead reviews and updates of engineering standards.
• Provide oversight of engineering systems across the portfolio.
• Conduct technical audits and inspections to ensure compliance.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to apply standards.

Skills

Leadership

Technical oversight

Collaboration

Innovation

Communication

Education

Engineering-related degree

Chartered Engineer status or working towards

Tools

CAFM systems

SFG20

JCT & NEC contracts

Job description

Senior Engineering Manager

As the Senior Engineering Manager, you will be the driving force behind the technical integrity and operational excellence of our entire property portfolio. This is a strategic leadership role where you will define, implement, and govern engineering standards that ensure every asset operates safely, efficiently, and in full compliance with regulatory requirements. You will provide strategic oversight of all engineering systems and infrastructure, setting the benchmark for performance, resilience, and sustainability. Ensuring consistency across assets, embedding best practice in design, maintenance, and lifecycle management. From energy efficiency and smart building technologies to critical systems reliability, you will lead initiatives that reduce risk, optimise cost, and enhance the colleague and customer experience. This role is about more than compliance; it’s about innovation and continuous improvement. You will champion the adoption of emerging technologies, data‑driven maintenance strategies, and sustainable engineering solutions that future‑prove our portfolio. Acting as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, you will influence major investment decisions and represent engineering in governance forums, ensuring that technical excellence underpins every property decision.

What you’ll do:

• Develop and maintain technical standards and specifications for building services, including mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems. Ensuring engineering practices align with statutory regulations, industry codes of practice, and internal policies.

• Lead periodic reviews and updates of engineering standards in response to regulatory changes, innovation, or operational feedback. Ensuring engineering standards are embedded in procurement, contractor management, and project delivery processes.

• Provide expert oversight of engineering systems across the property portfolio, including HVAC, electrical distribution, fire systems, and water hygiene.

• Conduct technical audits and inspections to ensure compliance and performance.

• Support incident investigations and root‑cause analysis for engineering‑related failures or risks.

• Advise on engineering design and technical specifications for capital projects, refurbishments, and lifecycle replacements.

• Review and approve engineering documentation, commissioning plans, and handover procedures.

• Maintain a register of engineering risks and ensure mitigation plans are in place.

• Collaborate with Workplace Experience, Capital Projects, and external consultants/suppliers to ensure consistent application of engineering standards.

• Act as a technical authority and advisor to senior leadership and operational teams.

  Representing the organisation in industry forums and regulatory engagements.

  Systems and Procedures: Familiarity with CAFM systems, SFG20, JCT & NEC contracts, and the RIBA Construction Plan of Work.

• Quality Assurance: Understand industry regulation and best practices, including embedding of procedural compliance and control frameworks.

• Creativity & Innovative Thinking: Experienced at coaching others to identify, analyse, and stimulate new opportunities for growth, profit, and competitive advantage.

• Using external insights to look beyond financial services for ideas and adopts, amends and tailors them to make it fit‑for‑purpose to the Group.

• Business and Commercial Insight: Possesses deep understanding of the business and has experience in shaping priorities and strategy using detailed industry insights as well as external, economic, social and competitor trends.

• Collaboration: demonstrates strong collaboration skills, advocating the value of ongoing collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to realise the Group’s strategy and creates opportunities for cross‑cultural, cross‑business network building and collaboration.

• Values & Behaviours: Is future focussed, able to communicate positions that align with the overall Group Strategy, finds solutions, an early adopter of change and drives transformation at pace with a growth mindset.

• Professional Qualifications: Chartered Engineer status (or working towards) in a relevant discipline (e.g., CIBSE, IET, IMechE).

• Professional Experience: Extensive experience in building services engineering, ideally within large‑scale or complex estates, including a proven track record of developing and implementing engineering standards.

Additional Skills

• Experience in consultancy, FM operations, or engineering asset management.
• Experience in critical infrastructure environments, particularly data centres.
• Working knowledge of digital transformation in building services, including software, automation, and AI.
• An engineering‑related degree.

Culture and Values

At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you’ll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you’ll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop. We keep your data safe and only ask for confidential or sensitive information once you are formally invited to interview or have accepted a verbal offer. We are committed to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve, creating an inclusive workplace where all colleagues can thrive. If you need reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process, just let us know.

Benefits

• Work in a collaborative, agile environment where your ideas matter.
• Enjoy professional development and a supportive culture.
• Influence how thousands of colleagues experience work every day.
• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
• An annual performance‑related bonus.
• Share schemes including free shares.
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
• 30 days holiday, with bank holidays on top.
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.