Maintenance Manager

Are you a natural leader with a passion for operational excellence and people development? We’re looking for a dynamic and driven Maintenance Manager - someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is ready to make a real impact.

As a key member of our Maintenance Team, you’ll be more than just a manager—you’ll be a mentor, a collaborator, and a champion of service excellence. Your mission? To lead by example, inspire your team, and ensure our facilities run like clockwork.

In this pivotal role, you will:

• Lead, coach, and empower a high-performing maintenance team, fostering a culture of accountability, growth, and continuous improvement.
• Deliver exceptional service ensuring all maintenance operations are efficient, proactive, and aligned with business needs.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with stakeholders and wider business teams to drive seamless service delivery and operational success.
• Champion innovation and best practices, identifying opportunities to enhance performance, reduce downtime, and improve the colleague experience.
• Be a visible leader, setting the standard for professionalism, safety, and service excellence across the board.

If you're ready to take ownership, lead with confidence, and make a tangible difference in a business that values innovation and teamwork—this is your opportunity to shine.

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!

• 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
• 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 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• 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

• • Lead and support the delivery of Maintenance across multiple stores whilst developing and driving safety Initiatives and campaigns that provide a functional, safe, and legal environment for colleagues and customers.
  • Lead, engage and develop a diverse and inclusive team, circa 150 multi skilled technicians, constantly raising the performance standards every day through regular 1-2-1s, and development/mentor, and performance related conversations.
  • Take ownership for personal development and teams’ development.
  • Consistently review the workload and capacity of my team to ensure prioritization, efficiency, and business continuity.
  • Ensure financial control through excellent analysis and judgement
  • Delivery of Fleet, Headcount, Overtime, Parts, General repairs, capital and budgets. Ensuring clarity on any forecast/budgetary changes
  • Delivery of Critical Asset Availability through Daily Operational Review activity, by diagnosing, and recommending solutions to operational challenges, using specialist knowledge, and operational expertise, and resources, where appropriate.
  • Support Program and Project creation.
  • Delivers plans from 3 months to one year with impact felt at 6 months.
  • Delivering the company KPI`s and supporting improvement where they are not achieved.
  • Communicate and build effective relationships with partners and colleagues internally and externally
  • Ensuring compliance in any audit activities

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• Remote leadership of Technical Management teams
• Comparable Retail, Facilities or Manufacturing Maintenance management experience
• People leadership and Development
• Leading and Implementing change programs
• Technical and Maintenance Eng. appreciation/experience
• Communication and partner management
• Influencing and negotiation
• Change Management
• Leading a large and diverse remote team
• Analysis of data to come to timely decisions
• Building internal and external networks
• Risk management and critical thinking
• Commercial and Eye for business
• Delivering Financial Budgets
• Service Delivery on a similar scale

You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award-winning mobile network. Truth is, we’re all of those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.

At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

We're proud to be an accredited Disability Confident Leader, where everyone’s welcome. That’s why we commit to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you need support with your application, click here for more information. And if you're interested in joining our team but don't tick every box, don't let that hold you back from applying.