DIO - Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Manager

You will lead Mechanical and Electrical Engineering excellence across Scotland and Northern Ireland, supporting some of Defence's most diverse and strategically important infrastructure assets.

Join the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and apply your expertise across airfields, fuel infrastructure, accommodation, training facilities and major capital projects. As one of the Region's Mechanical and Electrical specialists, you will provide technical leadership, influence infrastructure investment decisions, assure safety and compliance, support Net Zero ambitions and help deliver infrastructure that enables Defence capability.

Collaborating with military customers, industry partners and technical specialists, you will tackle diverse and complex engineering challenges while benefiting from flexible working, excellent Civil Service benefits and professional development opportunities.

Regional Delivery Scotland and Northern Ireland is responsible for managing and maintaining the Ministry of Defence built estate across the region and is committed to delivering infrastructure services, facilities maintenance and customer-directed billable works programmes.

This is a varied and influential role requiring effective engagement across DIO, industry and wider-government. Strong communication and stakeholder management skills are essential for ensuring activities conform with DIO's customer processes and operating procedures.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week. The Ministry of Defence supports flexible working where business needs allow however due to the volume, complexity and safety-critical nature of the work, the role is not suitable for reduced hours or job share arrangements.

The role involves managing a high volume of complex technical outputs, requiring rapid responses to compliance issues, operational risks and engineering challenges. It also includes remote management over a wide geographical area and challenging stakeholder management with diverse customers that require access to a single point of contact full-time.

A full UK driving licence is essential as many sites across the Region are not accessible by public transport. The role is primarily site-based in Northern Ireland with travel required to fulfil the role successfully and effectively, including travel across wider Scotland and Northern Ireland region and some national travel across the UK. Approximately 60% of working time will be spent at your permanent duty station or other Ministry of Defence sites.

Reporting to the Regional Technical Lead and working alongside other specialist technical advisers, this role provides strategic oversight, technical assurance and leadership across maintenance, compliance, and infrastructure projects.

You will influence decisions across a diverse estate, engaging with senior military, civilian and industry stakeholders, in a role supporting the delivery of Defence Infrastructure Services' contracts for maintenance services and new construction projects on the Defence Estate.

You will have the opportunity to:

• Influence engineering strategy across a diverse multi-billion pound Defence estate.
• Deliver Net Zero and sustainability initiatives including solar, EV charging and low-carbon heating projects.
• Support major infrastructure investments across airfields, fuel installations, accommodation, and training facilities.
• Work with industry-leading suppliers, consultants, and government stakeholders.
• Play an important role in ensuring the safety and resilience of critical Defence infrastructure.

As a key member of the Regional Technical Team, you will provide first-hand support on a wide range of technical specialisms to the Site Teams and wider DIO, using an agile approach to identify and implement solutions.

We have a Safety-First Ethos focusing on assuring safety standards in key areas such as asbestos, gas safety, electrical, fire safety, fuels, legionella and DSEAR management. The role will involve planned and preventative maintenance, project management, contract management, collaboration with customers, suppliers and consultancies to deliver a safe place for service personnel to work, live and train. DIO is investing in strategic asset management, and you could be part of the future management of the Defence Estate.

Proactively managing work tasks through clear and effective direction; supporting and participating in a culture of continuous improvement.

Providing support to maintain all DIO Business as Usual operational requirements and respond effectively to assist management requests to support changing departmental priorities.

Encouraging a working culture which promotes a healthy, safe and inclusive environment. Prioritising people's development and supporting smart ways of working. Building strong collaborative, professional working relationships with colleagues and other teams across DIO & the wider Ministry of Defence, to provide the continued level of support needed across a diverse estate in support of Defence.

A degree (BEng) in either Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related engineering subject relevant to the maintenance of the MOD estate

OR

Alternatively, BTEC/ SQA HNVQ or SCOTVEC HNC/ HND in a construction, infrastructure or engineering related discipline.

Applicants with a background in either Mechanical or Electrical Engineering are encouraged to apply, although experience across both disciplines would be advantageous.

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

For the Technical skills, please use The Government Property Profession career framework to assist you in the demonstration of your technical skills.

Your suitability for the role will be assessed using the specific Success Profile elements that have been chosen for this campaign. Each element will be scored accordingly, and the successful candidate will be appointed on merit.

At application you will be assessed against the following:

• Experience:CV detailing your job history, qualifications and previous skills and experience.
• Personal Statement (500 Words) demonstrating your experience in managing mechanical and electrical services within a complex construction, estates or property management environment.

At interview you will be assessed against the above, along with the following:

• Behaviours:Managing a Quality Service
• Communicating and Influencing
• Technical:Government Property Career Framework: 5. Analytical Decision Making (Practitioner level)
• Government Property Career Framework: 10. Health and Safety, Compliance and Inclusion: Property Leadership (Practitioner level)

Interviews will be in person. A minimum of five full working days’ notice will be provided for interviews.

To assist with your application please find attached:

• DIO Candidate Information Guide
• DIO Candidate Information Guide (Accessible version)

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

There may be occasions where it is not practicable or appropriate to interview all DCS candidates that meet the minimum criteria for the job. For example, in certain recruitment situations such as a high volume of applications, seasonal demand, or peak periods, the employer may wish to limit the overall number of interviews offered to both DCS and non-DCS applicants.

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points-based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category, and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system.

Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

The Ministry of Defence requires all candidates who are successful at interview to declare any outside interests. These declarations will be discussed with successful candidates following the interview process and before a formal offer of employment is made, as some outside interests may not be compatible with MOD civilian roles. This will not, in the majority of cases, prevent employment in MOD, but it is a measure that must be taken to ensure that appropriate mitigations can be put in place to manage any potential, perceived or actual conflicts of interest from the first day of employment.

The Ministry of Defence adopts a zero-tolerance approach to unacceptable behaviours, which includes bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, and victimisation. You will not be eligible and will not be considered for this post if you have been dismissed from a role for such unacceptable behaviours within the last five years. This will also apply if you resign or otherwise leave a role but, because of an adverse decision, would have been dismissed for gross misconduct had you continued in that employment. Pre-employment checks will be carried out.

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