UK Ministry of Defence
DIO - Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Manager
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Job Summary
You will lead Mechanical and Electrical Engineering excellence across Scotland and Northern Ireland, supporting some of Defence's most diverse and strategically important infrastructure assets.
Join the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and apply your expertise across airfields, fuel infrastructure, accommodation, training facilities, and major capital projects. As one of the Region's Mechanical and Electrical specialists, you will provide technical leadership, influence infrastructure investment decisions, assure safety and compliance, support Net Zero ambitions, and help deliver infrastructure that enables Defence capability.
Collaborating with military customers, industry partners, and technical specialists, you will tackle diverse and complex engineering challenges while benefiting from flexible working, excellent Civil Service benefits, and professional development opportunities.
Regional Delivery Scotland and Northern Ireland is responsible for managing and maintaining the Ministry of Defence built estate across the region and is committed to delivering infrastructure services, facilities maintenance, and customer-directed billable works programmes.
This is a varied and influential role requiring effective engagement across DIO, industry, and wider-government. Strong communication and stakeholder management skills are essential for ensuring activities conform with DIO's customer processes and operating procedures.
This position is advertised at 37 hours per week. The Ministry of Defence supports flexible working where business needs allow; however, due to the volume, complexity, and safety-critical nature of the work, the role is not suitable for reduced hours or job share arrangements.
The role involves managing a high volume of complex technical outputs, requiring rapid responses to compliance issues, operational risks, and engineering challenges. It also includes remote management over a wide geographical area and challenging stakeholder management with diverse customers that require access to a single point of contact full-time.
A full UK driving licence is essential as many sites across the Region are not accessible by public transport. The role is primarily site-based in Northern Ireland with travel required to fulfil the role successfully and effectively, including travel across wider Scotland and Northern Ireland region and some national travel across the UK. Approximately 60% of working time will be spent at your permanent duty station or other Ministry of Defence sites.
Job Description
Reporting to the Regional Technical Lead and working alongside other specialist technical advisers, this role provides strategic oversight, technical assurance, and leadership across maintenance, compliance, and infrastructure projects.
You will influence decisions across a diverse estate, engaging with senior military, civilian, and industry stakeholders, in a role supporting the delivery of Defence Infrastructure Services' contracts for maintenance services and new construction projects on the Defence Estate.
You Will Have The Opportunity To:
- Influence engineering strategy across a diverse multi-billion pound Defence estate.
- Deliver Net Zero and sustainability initiatives including solar, EV charging, and low-carbon heating projects.
- Support major infrastructure investments across airfields, fuel installations, accommodation, and training facilities.
- Work with industry-leading suppliers, consultants, and government stakeholders.
- Play an important role in ensuring the safety and resilience of critical Defence infrastructure.
As a key member of the Regional Technical Team, you will provide first-hand support on a wide range of technical specialisms to the Site Teams and wider DIO, using an agile approach to identify and implement solutions.
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We have a Safety-First Ethos focusing on assuring safety standards in key areas such as asbestos, gas safety, electrical, fire safety, fuels, legionella, and DSEAR management. The role will involve planned and preventative maintenance, project management, contract management, collaboration with customers, suppliers, and consultancies to deliver a safe place for service personnel to work, live, and train. DIO is investing in strategic asset management, and you could be part of the future management of the Defence Estate.
Proactively managing work tasks through clear and effective direction; supporting and participating in a culture of continuous improvement.
Providing support to maintain all DIO Business as Usual operational requirements and respond effectively to assist management requests to support changing departmental priorities.
Encouraging a working culture which promotes a healthy, safe, and inclusive environment. Prioritising people's development and supporting smart ways of working. Building strong collaborative, professional working relationships with colleagues and other teams across DIO & the wider Ministry of Defence, to provide the continued level of support needed across a diverse estate in support of Defence.
Person Specification
Delivery Of Maintenance And Construction Projects:
- Developing requirements and solutions with key project partners, supporting pricing and procurement.
- Providing expert technical challenge and assurance of engineering solutions proposed by suppliers and consultants.
- Ensuring infrastructure investments and engineering projects are delivered safely, compliantly, and in accordance with Defence requirements.
- Supporting with project handover and resolution of issues in use.
- Contract Compliance and Assurance.
- Undertaking compliance reviews for contracted works, including planned and reactive maintenance, reporting findings, and making recommendations for statutory and mandatory compliance as well as operational capability.
- Working with our Strategic Compliance Team in planning, undertaking, and reporting on programmed and reactive assurance checks, including learning from experience and continuous improvement.
Safety & Risk Management:
- Supporting the Regional Technical Team investigating Mechanical & Electrical safety alerts and notices within the Region.
- Identifying Mechanical and Electrical related risks and collaborating proactively with other partners in the identification, mitigation, and closure of risks.
Technical Support:
- Providing technical guidance on electrical, mechanical, heating, cooling, power distribution, and building services infrastructure.
- Contributing to a strong ethos of team development and continuous improvement through personal development and mentoring.
Desirable Skills & Experience:
- Previous experience on the Ministry of Defence estate or within large, complex, highly regulated infrastructure environments.
Licences
- Full and valid UK Driving Licence.
Qualifications
- A degree (BEng) in either Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related engineering subject relevant to the maintenance of the MOD estate
OR
- Alternatively, BTEC/ SQA HNVQ or SCOTVEC HNC/ HND in a construction, infrastructure, or engineering related discipline.
Applicants with a background in either Mechanical or Electrical Engineering are encouraged to apply, although experience across both disciplines would be advantageous.
Memberships
- Having attained or be working towards appropriate membership of a relevant professional body, e.g. Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE), Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), or Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).
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Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Managing a Quality Service
- Communicating and Influencing
Technical Skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Government Property Career Framework: 5. Analytical Decision Making (Practitioner level).
- Government Property Career Framework: 10. Health and Safety, Compliance and Inclusion: Property Leadership (Practitioner level).
Benefits
- Alongside your salary of £46,040, Ministry of Defence contributes £13,337 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
- Learning and development tailored to your role.
- An environment with flexible working options.
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
- The opportunity to join one of our several D&I Networks. We value diversity and are committed to being an equal opportunities employer.
- 25 days annual leave rising (1 day per year) to 30 days upon completion of 5 years’ service.
- Additional 5 days Stress and Strain leave.
- Enhanced Parental Leave.
- Most sites have free car parking, Sports & Social Clubs, Gym, on-site shops, and subsidised canteens.
- Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and working from home as part of a non-contractual hybrid working arrangement. All office-based employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in the office, subject to site capacity and any required workplace adjustments. Requirements to attend other locations for official business, or work in another MOD workplace, will also count towards this level of office attendance.
Applicants can request further information regarding how this and other flexible working arrangements may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details). Defence Business Services cannot respond to any questions about working arrangements.
The post does not offer relocation expenses.
External recruits who join the MOD who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a six-month probation period.
Please Note: Expenses incurred for travel to interviews will not be reimbursed.
Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay-related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.
Any move to MOD from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/.
The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment however some exemptions are in place, please refer to local guidance. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors, and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.
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