Lead Engineer

  • Skanska UK Plc
  • Aug 06, 2025
Full time Engineering

Job Description

Skanska, one of the world's leading project development and construction groups, is an inclusive and responsible business that is helping to build a better society.

Skanska Building Services are a leader in facilities management, trusted by top-tier clients across critical sectors, including Defence, Education, and Healthcare. Right now, we're looking for an experienced Mechanical Engineer to supervise maintenance and fault analysis of mechanical building operations.

What you'll do:

  • Review the health and status of critical building systems and report on site resilience.
  • Issue and manage planned and reactive maintenance tasks in line with contract requirements.
  • Complete planned and reactive maintenance tasks as per contract specifications.
  • Handle additional requests and project tasks.
  • Deliver cost savings through identification and implementation of process efficiencies.
  • Manage subcontractors, including review of works delivered.
  • Manage team and individual health & safety processes as per Skanska standards.
  • Attend site in a timely manner as part of the site call-out rota.

What you'll need:

  • Minimum of Mechanical/Electrical City & Guilds Level 2, NVQ Level 3 qualification.
  • Experience working in FM/building services environments.
  • Experience with BMS and critical building systems.
  • IOSH Managing Safely or NEBOSH certification.
  • Experience managing or leading engineers and subcontractors.

Equal opportunities

We thrive by embracing differences-social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation, and other protected characteristics. We believe diversity fosters new ways of thinking, helping us build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.

We welcome inquiries about flexibility during the interview process and will explore possibilities for the role.

Reasonable adjustments

If you require any adjustments to support you throughout the application process, please contact us at .

More information about the role

This advert is for our current vacancy and may not include all duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the role, which may be amended at Skanska's discretion. For a full role profile, contact us at .

The closing date for this vacancy may be changed at any time at the company's discretion.

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