Overview
Tesco UK • National • Permanent • Apply by 10-Oct-2025
Are you passionate about driving quality and assurance in the built environment? We're looking for a proactive, solutions-focused professional with strong technical expertise to lead building assurance across our UK Property portfolio.
As the Building Assurance Manager, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring robust, effective, and consistent building assurance procedures are in place. You'll collaborate across Engineering, Maintenance, Delivery, Procurement, and Contract Management teams, as well as with external contractors and consultants, to drive continuous improvement and uphold the highest standards in building quality.
Responsibilities
* Defining the UK Property Building Assurance Strategy and work in collaboration with colleagues from Engineering, Maintenance, Delivery and Procurement to ensure we have the correct procedures for building assurance.
* Act as the technical lead for building assurance across UK Property.
* Collaborate with internal team, external contractors, and consultants to drive continuous improvement in quality outcomes.
* Act as the technical lead on all matters relating to the Building Condition Survey (BCS) programme.
* Work alongside the Building Strategy Manager to review trends and highlight technical and assurance areas for improvement to the leadership team.
* Lead BCS quality assurance checks, both desktop and physical, to ensure the quality and completeness of the data being collected by surveyors.
* Provide technical analysis to ensure reliable asset and defect data is being captured and effectively filtered to various stakeholders.
* Be an active member of the Building Design Standards group.
* Stay up to date on changes within the construction, building assurance, building contract, and surveying industries, including attending trade fairs and industry events.
Qualifications
* MRICS / MCIOB
* Building Surveyor Degree or similar qualification in the built environment
* Experience leading change, stakeholder management, upskilling teams and embedding new processes or standards
* Experience working alongside relevant building health & safety legislation and building regulations.
* Proven track record in building quality assurance, audit processes and implementing improvement plans.
* Experience with using and applying building contracts and terms.
About us
You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award-winning mobile network. Truth is, we're all of those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.
At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.
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