Senior Manager – Engineering Standards & Asset Strategy; Refrigeration & HVAC)

Job Title

Senior Manager – Engineering Standards & Asset Strategy (Refrigeration & HVAC)

Asda House

Full time

Permanent

37.5

Competitive Salary plus benefits

Construction Project Delivery - SF

8 September 2026

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The Senior Engineering Manager is responsible for leading Asda’s engineering strategy across refrigeration, HVAC and M&E systems, ensuring all asset models, designs and specifications deliver operational suitability, energy efficiency and strong lifecycle value. Acting as the senior engineering authority within the Property team, the role governs technical standards, ensures compliance, supports capital planning, and drives cost‑effective solutions across new stores, refits and maintenance programmes.

Through strong supplier leadership, performance optimisation and the adoption of innovative technologies, the Senior Engineering Manager ensures Asda’s estate remains safe, resilient, sustainable and commercially efficient while providing expert guidance to cross‑functional teams.

You will:

Own the development and continuous evolution of Asda’s engineering strategy across refrigeration, HVAC, and M&E systems, ensuring solutions are safe, scalable, energy‑efficient, and aligned with business and sustainability priorities.

Define and maintain the technical models and specifications for all engineering assets, ensuring systems are designed for operational suitability, lifecycle value, resilience, and alignment with industry best practice.

Provide senior‑level governance to ensure all engineering systems comply with statutory legislation, British Standards, environmental regulations, and internal engineering policies, maintaining audit‑ready documentation.

Oversee the analysis of asset performance data to identify opportunities for optimisation, rationalisation, and innovation, ensuring the estate delivers maximum uptime, energy efficiency, and cost performance.

Lead the technical input into capital planning, developing robust business cases and cost‑effective engineering strategies for new stores, refits, maintenance programmes, and asset replacement cycles.

Set the technical direction for strategic suppliers and contractors, ensuring models, specifications, and installation standards are consistently met across the supply chain. Support procurement with technical assessment and contract input.

Act as the senior engineering authority across property programmes, ensuring refrigeration, HVAC, and M&E solutions are correctly specified, installed, commissioned, and handed over in line with Asda standards.

Champion the evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies—including natural refrigerants, low‑carbon HVAC solutions, digital monitoring, and smart building systems to future‑proof the asset base and reduce total cost of ownership.

Work closely with construction, maintenance, energy, sustainability, store operations, and commercial teams, providing expert engineering insight to support strategic decision‑making across the estate.

Provide senior technical leadership across the engineering function, driving continuous improvement, managing engineering risks, and cultivating a culture of safety, compliance, and engineering excellence.

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