Senior Property Engineering Lead

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-proof 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.

Role Profile: 
The Senior Engineering Manger is a pivotal role within our Construction Standards team, which oversees the engineering integrity of the Group’s core data centres, international offices, customer branch network, and UK Office Hub locations. You’ll lead the development and implementation of our MEP engineering standards, ensuring they drive compliance, resilience, and sustainability across our diverse estate.

You’ll work closely with colleagues in asset investment, IT operations, security, sustainability, and project delivery to ensure our engineering services support the Group’s long-term growth and transformation. With ongoing investment in our retail estate to create great spaces for colleagues and customers, and significant upgrades to our office hub locations, this role offers the opportunity to shape the future of our built environment.

The role also includes a supporting responsibility for our core data centre facilities, which are critical to the Group’s operations. Experience in critical infrastructure management is therefore highly desirable. A passion for transforming building services management through software, automation, and AI is also desirable. This includes a willingness to collaborate with stakeholders and contribute to initiatives such as Building Information Modelling (BIM), Digital Twinning, and MEP asset management.

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.

Key Skills:

• 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, economical, social and competitor trends. 
• Collaboration: demonstrates strong collaboration skills, advocating the value of on-going collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to realise the Group’s strategy and creates opportunities for cross-cultural, cross-business network building and collaboration. With the ability to create and sustain a large network of mature professional relationships, build connections and break down silos.
• Values & Behaviours: Is future focussed, able to communicate positions that align with the overall Group Strategy. Finds solutions, not problems. An early adopter of change and drives transformation at pace with a growth mindset. Works with integrity and promotes a collaborative and inclusive environment.
• 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 

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a forward-thinking team driving digital transformation.
• 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.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• 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

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

If you'd like reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process, just let us know. This is a once in a career opportunity to help shape your future as well as ours.

Join us and grow with purpose!