Building Engineer - Store Development
Marks & Spencer · United Kingdom
What You’ll Do
Your key accountabilities will include:
- Work across multiple stakeholders in property to own and deliver a building specification that performs to the required standards of the business needs and regulatory requirements.
- Identify opportunities to develop and improve the building specification standards from a structural, civil and building methodology point of view.
- Drive innovation, identify opportunities, and provide technical solutions to challenges that the business may face across all projects in the estate, whilst maintaining focus on sustainability and commercial efficiency.
- Partner with the feasibility team at the very inception of a project to assess existing buildings, shells and site conditions, identifying engineering constraints and developing effective solutions.
- Review the output of external Design Teams and Contractors to ensure compliance with M&S and Regulatory technical standards and specifications.
- Provide subject matter expertise to delivery teams on complex engineering constraints arising from fitting out existing units of varying age, size, type and status.
What You Will Be
Your skills and experience will include:
- A strong collaborator, able to work across multiple stakeholders and disciplines.
- Organised, with strong process management skills.
- Comfortable challenging engineering solutions in an articulate, well-reasoned and correct way to achieve business goals.
- Commercially minded, with a focus on sustainability and efficiency.
- A confident communicator with strong interpersonal and influencing skills.
- Experienced in managing relationships with structural engineers, architects, contractors, consultants and wider supply partners.
What You Will Bring:
- Delivery of complex fit out projects is essential.
- Minimum 5+ years of experience and a proven track record in engineering, construction or the development of building and technical specifications for retail stores/buildings.
- Fire, Health and Safety and Building Regulations experience, with detailed knowledge of requirements.
- A recognised engineering degree or qualification and/or industry experience, with a degree or HND/HNC and relevant experience accepted.
- Experience supporting investigations, scoping visits, engineering tenders and technical delivery across diverse retail environments.
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.