DIO - Regional Manager Mechanical & Electrical Engineering

Lead Mechanical and Electrical engineering excellence across the Defence Estate in South West England.

Join the Defence Infrastructure Organisation and apply your expertise across airfields, fuel infrastructure, accommodation, training facilities, and major capital projects. As one of the region's senior M&E specialists, you will influence strategic 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 whilst enjoying a strong work-life balance, excellent Civil Service benefits and opportunities for professional development.

Regional Delivery SW are responsible for effective management across the South West Region to maintain the MOD built estate. We are committed to the provision of appropriate Infrastructure Services, Facilities Maintenance and customer directed billable works programmes.

The role enables delivery of departmental goals; ensuring activities conform with all agreed DIO TLB processes and operating procedures, and for providing an efficient administrative support service.

The role has wide ranging requirements with plenty to engage your interest! Interactions across DIO, Industry and wider Government will be an important aspect utilising your communication skills effectively.

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The objectives of the role cannot be delivered within reduced hours or through job share, the role entails management of a high volume of complex outputs which entails a consistent and rapid turnaround for resolutions due to safe and legal compliance and potential risk to lives, it also includes but is not limited to 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 required as the Region is geographically dispersed, and the successful candidate will be site based with a requirement to travel to various locations to fulfil the role successfully and effectively, including occasional travel across the SW region and national travel. Please note Public Transport is not available to many of our locations.

The post advertised is for 37 hours net, however the Ministry of Defence offers a range of flexibilities to enable a better work-life balance for employees. Flexible working patterns will be considered.

Travel between sites to review works, promote effective stakeholder relationships, collaboration, training and development; spending 60% of your time working from your permanent duty station, or other site location.

You will act as one of the region's senior M&E technical advisers providing 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 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 a key role in ensuring the safety and resilience of critical Defence infrastructure.

A key member of the Regional Technical Team (RTT) providing first hand support on a wide range of technical specialisms to the Site Teams and wider DIO, being agile identifying and implementing 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 & 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 MOD, to provide the continued level of support needed across a diverse estate in support of Defence.

Delivery of Maintenance and Construction Projects:

• Developing requirements and solutions with key project partners, supporting pricing and procurement.
• Providing expert technical challenge and assurance of engineering solutions proposed by suppliers and consultants.
• Ensuring infrastructure investments and engineering projects are delivered safely, compliantly and in accordance with Defence requirements.
• Supporting with project handover and resolution of issues in use.
• Contract Compliance and Assurance.
• Undertaking compliance reviews for contracted works, including planned and reactive maintenance, reporting findings and making recommendations for statutory and mandatory compliance as well as operational capability.
• Working with our Strategic Compliance Team in planning, undertaking and reporting on programmed and reactive assurance checks, including learning from experience and continuous improvement.

Safety & Risk Management:

• Supporting the Technical Team investigating Mechanical & Electrical safety alerts and notices within the region.
• Identifying Mechanical & Electrical related risks and collaborating proactively with other partners in the identification, mitigation, and closure of risks.

Technical Support:

• Providing technical guidance and support to Site Teams on all mechanical / electrical infrastructure.
• Contributing to a strong ethos of team development and continuous improvement through personal development and mentoring.

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/ SQAHNVQ or SCOTVEC HNC/ HND together with substantial relevant & recent experience in a construction, infrastructure or engineering related discipline.

A bias towards either mechanical or electrical will be acceptable - it is desirable that experience has been gained across both disciplines

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

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

Please ensure that at the application and interview stages of the campaign you review the Success Profiles Framework to assist you in the demonstration of your skills and experience.

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

Candidates will be required to provide CV details to include job history and qualification details.

Candidates will be required to provide a statement of suitability in no more than 750 words.

At sift, you will be assessed against your CV, Statement of suitability and the following:

Behaviour

• Managing a Quality Service

Technical Skill

• Government Property Career Framework: 10. Health and Safety, Compliance and Inclusion: Property Leadership (Practitioner level).

At interview, you will be assessed against the following:

Behaviours

• Managing a Quality Service
• Communicating and Influencing

Technical Skills

• Government Property Career Framework: 10. Health and Safety, Compliance and Inclusion: Property Leadership (Practitioner level).
• Government Property Career Framework: 6. Technology and Innovation: Estate Strategy (Practitioner level).

Interviews are currently expected to take place in person at Marlborough Lines, Andover.

A minimum of two full working days’ notice will be provided for interviews.

We endeavour to stick to these dates, but these are subject to change around business needs.

To assist with your application please find attached below:

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

Further information:

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.

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.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.