Senior Manager – Engineering Standards & Asset Strategy (Refrigeration & HVAC)
Asda House
Full time
Permanent
37.5
Competitive Salary plus benefits
Construction Project Delivery - SF
11 June 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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Everything you'll love
To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.
You will also get an excellent benefits package including:
Discretionary company bonus
Company pension up 1.5 times colleagues' contribution (Max 15%)
Company Car allowance of £8000
15% colleague discount in store and online
Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.
We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves
It’s hard for anyone to imagine just how many different career possibilities there are at Asda. Ours is a big business, and beyond the roles you might be familiar with on the shop floor (or on your doorstep), there are hundreds of others you don’t get to see.
In fact, because our business is changing so rapidly, there are new roles being created at Asda all the time. Technology is changing how we do things every day, helping us to reimagine retail to make life better for our customers, in-store and online.
For those with imagination, can-do, integrity and a willingness to embrace change, the possibilities at Asda are limitless. Take a look around and see where a career at Asda could take you.
