Head of Technical Assurance and Engineering Excellence

60% hybrid working from either :

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Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, Portsmouth or Worthing

Job summary

Explore the world of HMRC Estates, where we lead the way in government property transformation. As a key player in one of the UK’s largest property programmes, HMRC Estates offers safe, inclusive workplaces and exceptional career development opportunities. Our team is dedicated to delivering high-quality, user-friendly services that enable our colleagues to thrive in an environment where they truly belong. Watch the video below to meet some of our team and come and discover a career in your hands at HMRC.

Build a Career in Property with HMRC Estates

Explore the world of HMRC Estates, where we lead the way in government property transformation. As a key player in one of the UK’s largest property programmes, HMRC Estates offers safe, inclusive workplaces and exceptional career development opportunities. Our team is dedicated to delivering high-quality, user friendly services that enable our colleagues to thrive in an environment where they truly belong.

Estates & Locations are at the forefront of delivering one of the biggest property programmes in the UK. We are at the leading edge of Government property transformation. The purpose of Estates & Locations is to provide HMRC with an estate which is the right size and shape to meet both the current and future needs of our customers in HMRCs business areas.

We are a customer service organisation which exists to offer high quality, easy to use services to enable our colleagues to perform at their best by providing working environments in which they want to work.

The Head of Technical Assurance and Engineering Excellence role sits within the Professional Services and Estates Assurance (PS&EA) team, a centre of excellence responsible for shaping and delivering Estates policy on Building Services Engineering, Assurance and Environmental initiatives. This includes Net Zero strategy, BMS ownership, Smart Buildings development, and the delivery of technically complex projects such as EV charging infrastructure and wider Net Zero programme.

You will operate in as part of a highly technical and specialist team setting standards, driving change and assuring key technical interventions to ensure resilience for HMRCs core operational activities.

The Head of Technical Assurance and Engineering Excellence is a critical leadership role within HMRC Estates & Locations, requiring an accomplished leader with broad and demonstrable technical expertise across Electrical and Mechanical Building Engineering Services, including Electronic Security and Automatic Access Control Systems.

The postholder will lead a specialist team of Building Services Engineers responsible for delivering Technical Assurance and engineering excellence across Major Capital Projects, Minor Capital schemes, Lifecycle Programmes, HMRC Estate’s asset portfolio, FM and Refurbishment works. They will ensure that Technical Scopes of Work and Client Side Employer’s Requirements are developed, applied, and maintained to consistently high standards whilst offering expert advice and oversight to engineering and technical services activities across the estate portfolio.

The Head of Technical Assurance & Engineering Excellence is a key member of the (PS&EA) Senior Leadership Team, with responsibility for supporting the Deputy Director on their key objectives across Estates & Locations, taking by taking ownership for the technical standards, functional alignment and technical assurance. The postholder will represent the team across a range of internal and external forums, contributing to the strategic direction, professional standards, and continuous development of PS&EA.