Engineering Lead

Role PurposeSupport the Engineering Manager in the day-to-day delivery of engineering services across the Scottish administration office estate, providing hands-on supervision of engineers, contractors and maintenance activities.

The Engineering Supervisor will ensure planned and reactive works are delivered safely, compliantly and efficiently, maintaining high standards of building performance, customer service and engineering governance.

Key Responsibilities

-Support the Engineering Manager with the day-to-day management of engineering services across the administration office portfolio.

-Provide visible, hands-on supervision and technical support to engineers and contractors.

-Coordinate daily engineering activities, workloads and priorities across the sites.

-Ensure planned preventative maintenance (PPM) is completed to programme and to the required technical standard.

-Manage and coordinate reactive maintenance, ensuring faults are appropriately prioritised, escalated and resolved.

-Supervise specialist suppliers and subcontractors, ensuring work is completed safely, professionally and in accordance with agreed requirements.

-Carry out pre-work briefings and ensure engineers and contractors understand the relevant RAMS, permits, SOPs and safe systems of work.

-Monitor outstanding defects, remedial works and maintenance actions through to completion.

-Ensure statutory and mandatory maintenance activities are completed and appropriately evidenced.

-Support the Engineering Manager with engineering audits, compliance reviews and site inspections.

-Maintain accurate engineering records, including maintenance evidence, permits, contractor documentation and site logs.

-Identify recurring faults, asset condition issues and potential engineering risks and escalate these to the Engineering Manager.

-Support minor works, lifecycle activities and engineering improvement initiatives.

-Ensure engineering teams maintain good housekeeping, plant room standards and engineering discipline.

-Act as the first point of escalation for day-to-day engineering issues across the administration sites.

-Provide cover and additional supervisory support across the wider Scottish estate where required, excluding management responsibility for the data centres.

-Promote a positive engineering culture focused on safety, compliance, ownership, quality and customer service.

-Ensure callout rotas and resource availability

People & Supplier Management

-Provide day-to-day supervision and direction to engineers.

-Coordinate engineer and supplier attendance to meet operational priorities.

-Ensure clear communication of daily activities, risks and outstanding actions.

-Monitor supplier performance and challenge poor quality, delays or non-compliance.

-Coach engineers and support the development of technical competency.

-Escalate significant performance, safety, resource or technical issues to the Engineering Manager.

-Act as AP for required permitted activities

Experience & Competence

-Recognised electrical, mechanical or building services engineering background.

-Relevant engineering qualifications and trade experience.

-Previous experience supervising engineers, contractors or maintenance teams.

-Good understanding of planned and reactive building maintenance.

-Understanding of statutory compliance, health and safety, RAMS, permits and safe systems of work.

-Experience managing specialist engineering suppliers and contractors.

-Strong organisational skills with the ability to coordinate multiple activities and priorities.

-Confident communicator with a practical, hands-on approach.

-Comfortable using CAFM and maintenance management systems.

-Customer-focused with a strong commitment to engineering standards and service delivery.

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