Building Engineer - Store Development
Description
What You’ll Do
Your key accountabilities will include:
Own and deliver a building specification that performs to the required standards of business needs and regulatory requirements across a diverse property estate.
Identify opportunities to develop and improve building specification standards from a structural, civil, fire and building methodology perspective.
Work closely with the M&E, Refrigeration and Store Equipment technical teams to ensure specifications are optimised across all disciplines, free from clashes and compliant with regulatory requirements.
Drive innovation, identify opportunities and provide technical solutions to engineering challenges, whilst maintaining focus on sustainability and commercial efficiency.
Partner with the feasibility team, external partners and the Cost Management team to assess viability, identify engineering constraints, support design briefs and tender documentation, and contribute to value engineering.
Review the output of external Design Teams and Contractors, provide subject matter expertise on complex engineering challenges, and support acquisitions, legal, construction and FM teams with technical due diligence and engineering guidance.
What You Will Be
Your skills and experience will include:
An experienced engineering, construction or property professional with a proven track record of delivering complex fit out projects.
A technical expert who can challenge engineering solutions in an articulate, well-reasoned and commercially focused way to achieve business goals.
A collaborative stakeholder manager, comfortable working with structural engineers, architects, contractors, consultants, procurement teams and wider business functions.
Passionate about sustainability and ensuring specifications support operational and embodied carbon targets, whole-life carbon considerations and regulatory requirements.
Organised and process-driven, with the ability to manage multiple priorities whilst delivering timely technical support and approvals.
A strong communicator and influencer, capable of building relationships, maintaining supplier performance and providing technical direction across a diverse retail estate.
What You Will Bring:
A minimum of 5+ years' experience and a proven track record in engineering, construction or the development of building and technical specifications for retail stores or buildings.
Experience delivering complex fit out projects and ideally client-side experience writing and maintaining technical specifications.
Fire, Health and Safety and Building Regulations expertise, including detailed knowledge of the Building Safety Act 2022 and CDM 2015.
A recognised engineering degree in civil or structural engineering, building surveying qualification, or equivalent industry experience.
Experience in technical due diligence, working with property legal teams, and a strong commercial understanding including NEC and JCT contracts.
A good understanding of retail engineering, along with strong organisational, interpersonal and influencing skills.
What’s in it for you:
Being a part of M&S is exactly that – playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We’re an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us.
Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special…
20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.
Everyone’s welcome
We are ambitious about the future of retail. We’re disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We’re transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.
We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.
If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.
Lead with purpose. Own the outcomes. Raise the bar. This is your store. And your chance to shape the future of M&S. Are you ready for it? Take Your Marks and apply today.