Specialist Pools
Head of Swimming Pool Engineering
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Help us build the UK's most respected swimming pool engineering team.
We're looking for an exceptional engineer to become the technical authority behind Specialist Pools' engineering excellence and help shape the future of premium swimming pool engineering.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role for an experienced swimming pool engineer who takes pride in their craft, enjoys solving complex problems, and wants to define the standard for premium swimming pool engineering.
Our ambition isn't to become the biggest company in the industry. It's to become the best.
We're building an exclusive team of highly skilled engineers focused on quality, expertise, and doing things properly. A business where exceptional engineers are trusted, respected, and rewarded for the value they bring.
The Role
As Head of Swimming Pool Engineering, you'll work on some of the UK's most prestigious commercial and luxury residential swimming pools, delivering engineering solutions where expertise, precision, and attention to detail are critical.
You'll be responsible for:
- Commercial plant room installations, upgrades, and refurbishments
- Leading complex engineering projects from planning and diagnosis through to completion
- Advanced filtration and hydraulic improvements
- Automation systems and controls
- Pump installations and system optimization
- UV servicing and installations
- Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM)
- Setting engineering standards, processes, and best practice across the business
- Mentoring and developing engineers through technical guidance, coaching, and hands-on support
- Helping build a culture of continuous learning, technical excellence, and professional pride
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You'll be the engineer trusted with the most technically demanding projects, using your experience and judgement to deliver the right solution first time.
You'll set the technical standard for the business by leading through the quality of your work, not your job title.
Our work is built around PWTAG best practice and engineering excellence.
Why Join Specialist Pools?
We believe quality always comes before quantity.
That means:
- Working on exceptional commercial and luxury residential projects
- Having the time and support to deliver work properly
- Being trusted to use your experience and judgement
- Playing a key role in building a specialist engineering business with industry-leading standards
- Helping develop the next generation of exceptional swimming pool engineers
- You won't just be completing jobs - you'll help define how premium pool engineering should be delivered.
What's In It For You
- £65,000–£75,000 package, depending on experience and ability
- Performance bonuses and incentives
- Company vehicle, tools, mobile phone, and uniform
- All business expenses covered
- 21 days' holiday plus bank holidays, increasing with service
- The opportunity to shape the future of the engineering team and influence how the business grows
We believe exceptional engineers should be recognised, trusted, and rewarded accordingly.
About You
You're the engineer people trust when the job needs to be done properly.
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You:
- Take genuine pride in your workmanship and consistently deliver to the highest standards
- Have the technical ability to diagnose complex problems and deliver the right solution
- Have extensive experience with commercial plant rooms, advanced pool systems, and specialist engineering installations
- Can work independently, take ownership, and make confident technical decisions
- Have a reputation for solving difficult problems others cannot
- Enjoy mentoring and developing engineers by leading through example
- Believe great engineering is built on high standards, continuous learning, and attention to detail
- Want to help build the UK's most respected swimming pool engineering team
- May have previously run your own business or operated at a senior technical level
About Specialist Pools
Specialist Pools delivers premium service, maintenance, and engineering solutions for commercial and luxury residential swimming pools.
We help our clients improve water quality, reduce operating costs, and lower environmental impact through intelligent filtration, automation, and engineering expertise.
We're building more than a pool company. We're building the benchmark for swimming pool engineering in the UK.
If you're an engineer who wants your expertise recognised, your judgement trusted, and your contribution to genuinely matter - while helping raise the standard of the industry - we'd like to hear from you.
Apply today or contact us for a confidential conversation.
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