Engineering Controls Manager
Tesco
TescoWelwyn Garden City, AL7 1GAView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
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Contract
Permanent
Hours
36 hrs/week · Full-time · Flexible
Closing date
13 November 2026
20 days leftJob description
As our Engineering Controls Manager, you’ll play a key role in shaping the future of our controls and Building Management Systems across our stores and distribution centres. You’ll help us deliver safe, efficient and future ready environments for colleagues and customers by developing world class standards, driving innovation, and ensuring our platforms are fit for today and tomorrow.
You’ll be the expert in your field—often the first layer of management for people or projects—and you’ll bring energy, curiosity and technical leadership to everything you do.
The Hiring Manager for this role is Matthew Reeves-Smith.
- Identifying opportunities to develop and improve our engineering controls platforms, ensuring they remain robust, modern and scalable.
- Creating and maintaining world class technical standards that support delivery of the annual Property business plan.
- Working cross functionally with technical, operational, IT and Property teams to deliver Group technical standards consistently and effectively.
- Understanding our existing controls platforms and collaborating with colleagues to shape short, medium and long term development plans.
- Driving continuous improvement by finding better, simpler and more cost effective solutions that create value for customers and the business.
- Building strong, productive relationships with industry experts, suppliers and internal stakeholders, influencing others to deliver great results.
- Ensuring the right technical solutions are in place to meet the current and future needs of our stores and distribution centres.
- Bringing new ideas and technical innovation to keep our controls strategy aligned with industry best practice and emerging technologies.
- Creating business cases to support trials and initiatives within your product group, contributing to energy reduction and operational improvement plans.
- Leading or supporting project design and delivery, including writing specifications within the controls and BMS sector.
- Applying a strong understanding of industry standards and relevant legislation to ensure compliance and best practice across the estate.
- Experience in engineering controls, BMS or related technical fields.
- A track record of delivering technical projects, writing specifications and managing suppliers.
- Strong communication and influencing skills—you energise others and bring people with you.
- A continuous improvement mindset, always looking for ways to simplify, improve and innovate.
- The ability to balance customer needs, business priorities and long term strategic thinking.
- Confidence working cross functionally and building relationships at all levels.
- A passion for delivering great results, bringing technical innovation and new ideas, ensuring the business stays up to date.
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. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. 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.
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Tesco
First seen
3 October 2026
Last checked
24 October 2026
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