Technical Services Engineering Manager

Job Purpose

The role is responsible for leading and managing the engineering team to ensure that all engineering responsibilities are delivered efficiently, within the appropriate cost levels, and in line with project deadlines. The position promotes a strong collaborative culture across estimating, commercial, and operations teams, recognising that flexibility and cross-functional support are essential to successfully deliver work. The role includes responsibility for recruiting, managing, training and developing staff.

This includes overseeing annual performance reviews and maintaining or evolving the existing 6-month graduate training programme through regular monthly reviews. The postholder will maintain positive team discipline and implement performance improvement measures where required, while ensuring the team remains up to date with regulatory changes and emerging technologies. The role also provides engineering support to site teams by resolving technical issues and developing practical solutions, holds financial accountability for the team, and contributes to the ongoing development of the engineering team’s roles and responsibilities, in line with the company’s growth.

Job Purpose

The role is responsible for leading and managing the engineering team to ensure that all engineering responsibilities are delivered efficiently, within the appropriate cost levels, and in line with project deadlines. The position promotes a strong collaborative culture across estimating, commercial, and operations teams, recognising that flexibility and cross-functional support are essential to successfully deliver work. The role includes responsibility for recruiting, managing, training and developing staff.

This includes overseeing annual performance reviews and maintaining or evolving the existing 6-month graduate training programme through regular monthly reviews. The postholder will maintain positive team discipline and implement performance improvement measures where required, while ensuring the team remains up to date with regulatory changes and emerging technologies. The role also provides engineering support to site teams by resolving technical issues and developing practical solutions, holds financial accountability for the team, and contributes to the ongoing development of the engineering team’s roles and responsibilities, in line with the company’s growth.



The Role

• The JA Brooks business has both a UK and GmBH element – and is involved with prefabrication at its own facilities in Colchester where there is a 5–6-man CAD / BIM team and has its main office in London.
• Its main areas of work are data centres in Europe and the UK, and commercial M&E works in the UK, mainly, but not solely in London.
• The Technical Services Engineering Manager (TSEM) will manage the engineering team (ET) which is predominately office based and includes members in the UK and Europe (currently Germany and Denmark). This will include control of the BIM team, based in Colchester.
• The TSEM will be responsible for developing the existing team and assist in recruiting new staff as required. The business places a big emphasis on recruiting young graduates and technician engineers, as well as more experienced engineers at both intermediate and senior level.
• The candidate must be able to demonstrate a strong team-building ethos, a good degree of empathy towards the younger members of the team and a willingness to spend time mentoring and helping in their development.
• They must bring with them a broad wealth of knowledge of M&E services and systems in the commercial, healthcare and fit out arenas. It is essential that this includes data centre experience as this is a significant part of the business.
• The successful candidate will need a strong ability to understand and assess risk, as a key responsibility of the engineering team is the evaluation of tenders as they are received. Working closely with the pre-construction team, the role involves identifying potential design issues, typically within projects progressing from stage 3/4 through to stage 5.
• The candidate must have a solid understanding of the design process to ensure that…