Head of Engineering Services

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Job Reference nhg/TP/36088/2032

Apply for this job Number of Positions: 1 Contract Type: Permanent Salary: £95,255 to £105,839 per annum for 40 hours per week. Working Hours: 40 Location: 2 Killick St Closing Date: 01/11/2026 Job Category: Compliance and Energy Business Unit: Homes Directorate

Job Introduction

As Head of Engineering Services, you’ll lead Notting Hill Genesis’s Engineering Services function and establish it as our centre of technical excellence across mechanical and electrical engineering, heating, energy, water and fire safety.

Leading a multidisciplinary team of specialists, you’ll define engineering standards and strengthen the technical control environment across our housing portfolio. Operating as an independent second line of defence, you’ll provide technical assurance and constructive challenge to ensure work delivered in residents’ homes and communal areas is safe, compliant, high quality and provides value for money.

As Head of Engineering Services, you’ll play a key role in improving contractor performance, maintaining the golden thread of asset information and strengthening confidence in building safety, regulatory compliance and asset performance.

How you’ll do it

• Define and maintain engineering policies, technical standards and assurance requirements across M&E, heating, heat networks, energy, water and fire safety, ensuring they remain aligned with relevant legislation and regulations.
• Establish an independent, reliable and auditable engineering assurance system, maintaining clear separation between service delivery, contract ownership and technical assurance.
• Provide technical authority and constructive challenge across Engineering Services, improving contractor performance, reducing defects and ensuring work meets defined safety, compliance, quality and performance standards.
• Lead, develop and build the capability of a multidisciplinary engineering team, embedding consistent professional standards and meeting building safety and regulatory competency requirements.
• Use inspections, certification, assurance data and performance insight to identify systemic risks, maintain audit-ready golden thread information and support investment and asset-management decisions.
• Oversee cost assurance and capital-work handovers, while working with senior leaders, regulators, contractors and other stakeholders to improve value for money, asset quality and engineering outcomes.
• Identify and escalate systemic engineering and safety risks, using data and insight to support early intervention, improve asset performance and inform investment decisions.
• Work collaboratively with senior leaders, regulators, contractors and external partners, ensuring engineering insight informs organisational strategy and that capital works meet engineering standards at handover.

The ideal candidate

We believe great service starts with great people, and we are committed to recruiting and developing passionate, enthusiastic, and talented individuals who can add value to our thriving organisation. 

Pending confirmation of legislative changes, this role may require a qualification to demonstrate competence. If not already qualified, there may be an expectation to study towards a professional qualification. 

Essential:

• A degree in a relevant discipline such as Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Building Services or Fire Engineering, together with professional membership or chartered status with an appropriate body such as CIBSE, IET or IGEM, or evidence that you are working towards this.
• Significant experience in a senior engineering or technical leadership role, including setting technical standards, policies and processes, leading and developing specialist teams, and effectively challenging contractors on quality and performance.
• Strong technical expertise in at least one of the following areas: M&E systems, heating, including gas and heat networks, or fire safety. You’ll also have good working knowledge across the other disciplines and a strong understanding of relevant housing and engineering legislation, technical assurance, governance, audit requirements and accurate golden thread asset information.
• Good understanding of key housing and engineering legislation and regulations, including the Buildi