Senior Building Services Engineer

We are the public body that looks after England’s historic environment. We champion historic places, helping people understand, value and care for them.

Historic England has a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as our Senior Building Services Engineer.

This is a full time, fixed-term contract until 31st March 2030.

The location of this role is National where we offer hybrid working, you will be based in one of our following offices and from home - Newcastle, York, Manchester, Birmingham, Swindon, Bristol, Portsmouth (Fort Cumberland), London and Cambridge.

We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive defined benefit pension scheme to which we make 28.97% employer contributions, a generous 28 days holiday, corporate discounts, free entry into English Heritage sites across the country and development opportunities to ensure you achieve your goals.

The Technical Conservation Team in the National Specialist Services Department specialises in the care, repair and conservation of buildings, structures and landscapes. We set standards and provide specialist technical services and strategic leadership on all aspects of the care, repair, maintenance and adaptation of the historic built environment. We do this by developing and promoting evidence-based technical policy, standards and best practice and by providing specialist guidance to support those who care for and make decisions about the stewardship of the historic environment.

As our Senior Building Services Engineer, you will take an active role in promoting the specific sympathetic approaches required when applying building services engineering solutions to all aspects of the historic environment.

You will use both your expert technical knowledge and your excellent interpersonal skills to advise on and develop sustainable proposals for the repair and re-use of traditional buildings. You will join a national team working alongside colleagues in six regional offices to deliver grant programmes that will repair and conserve all types of built heritage, but in particular to focus on grant work related to designated places of worship and museum buildings.

• Chartered Engineer with substantial relevant practical experience
• Member of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers or Institution of Engineering and Technology or Institution of Mechanical Engineers
• Experience in the management of mechanical or electrical building services engineering design and implementation of design solutions
• Experience in assessment and implementation of energy management solutions and good practice.

We are an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusion. If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we would be happy to discuss reasonable adjustments to the job with you.

If you have any recruitment queries, please contact us by email at recruit men

Provisional interview dates:
Mid July 2026 TBC.