Location
Bedford, Bedfordshire | United Kingdom
Job description
Accountable for the delivery of Maintenance in Tesco Distribution Centre at Bedford & Herts. Managing a team of circa 10 multi skilled technicians covering HVAC, Electrical, Mechanical, Building, Refrigeration, Working collaboratively with all functions inside Property and our external contractors.
Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details before your agreed start date.
You will be responsible for:
Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence and have these specific risk responsibilities:
- Delivering great standards across the site.
- Putting community, customer, and planet at the heart of everything I do.
- Building effective relationships and communication across all functions and with key stakeholders.
- Attending DCM Meetings, working day to day with DC Management.
- Delivering change across business areas to consistently deliver performance and improve productivity.
- Delivering great results with year-on-year improvement.
- Driving problem solving, identifying key issues, and developing effective solutions.
- Managing the workload and capacity of my team.
- Forecasting and managing my budgets effectively, always being cost conscious.
- Locally managing contractor’s performance on site to ensure first fix.
- Collaborating with the rest of the business to ensure the solutions are truly co-developed and owned at a local level.
- Developing, leading, and coaching a high performing team, giving them the opportunities to be their best.
- Effectively using the insight developed to shape strategic thinking and identifying potential opportunities.
- Being a custodian of Health and Safety.
- Driving the diversity and inclusive agenda throughout my team.
- Delivering KPI'S and implementing improvement plans when they are not achieved.
- Escalation management.
- Ensuring that all legal and compliance standards are met as a minimum and exceeded where possible.
- Delivering great brand through the team, uniform, service and work standards
Driving the team through the Maintenance Pathway to business required levels
You will need:
Communication and stakeholder management
Lead a diverse and remote team
Building internal and external networks
Analysis of data to achieve timely decisions
Financial competency
Computer literacy – EAM, Office 365
Change management
Problem solving and root cause analysis
Influencing skills
Previous Technical and Maintenance Engineering Experience.
Experience in a similar scale remote facilities or maintenance business
Demonstrated operational success in people leadership and development.
Technical qualification in either HVAC, Electrical, Mechanical, refrigeration or Building.
What's in it for you:
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving. And helps make every day a little better for you and your family. These include but are not limited to:
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
Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
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 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
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
A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here
Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want
Click Here to read more about the full range of benefits we have available for our colleagues
About us:
Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is 'Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day'. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.
We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We're a big business with diverse working patterns and many business areas which means that we can find something that works for you. Everyone is welcome at Tesco.
We have recently announced that we will be moving towards a more blended working week – combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. Please talk to us to about how this can work for you.
NOTE: Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details on your agreed start date.
We're proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we're committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please visit
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