Critical Environment Technical Manager

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

12/2/2024

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This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.

Job Description

Join us as a Critical Environment Technical Manager

• In this role, you’ll have responsibility for strategy, design, and scenario testing for critical mechanical and electrical services within the corporate critical portfolio
• Your remit will include two owned data centres, four co-located, outsourced data centres, technology infrastructure rooms, large offices including a head office, trading floors with some properties housing over 4K occupants, and Retail branches
• You’ll support your allocated properties as a key stakeholder, and you’ll ensure that the infrastructure supporting critical business and IT business functions is designed and operated to appropriate standards
• You’ll provide technical consultancy to all critical sites as required following major incidents and you’ll discharge the role of chief and authorising engineer for NatWest globally
  
  
  

What you’ll do

With the overall objective of ensuring a safe and functional working environment, you’ll develop, document, and maintain an end-to-end view of all the functions of critical environment, engineering, documentation, processes, and energy activities. You’ll be responsible for the ownership and maintenance of our electrical and mechanical safety rules, and you’ll deliver, lead, and drive projects as required.

You’ll also:

• Ensure that all project works on critical portfolio buildings and critical IT supporting infrastructure and buildings are completed to the agreed design standards, are commissioned successfully, and are then handed over to the Operations teams, with design sign off
• Develop building services technical solutions that are resilient, energy efficient, and comply with NatWest occupancy standards and statutory requirements
• Provide advice on engineering maintenance processes and procedures including strategic developments
• Deliver a consistent set of electrical safety rules that are applied across all critical sites by either in-house employees or outsourced supply chain, ensuring systems are operated safely by competent people
• Ensure any third party repairs and maintenance supplier contracted by NatWest has their electrical safety rules approved by our authorising engineer to ensure consistent compliance to relevant Health and Safety law
• Undertake reviews, audits, and risk analysis of engineering services to ensure optimum resilience and safety across the NatWest global portfolio
  
  
  

The skills you’ll need

Due to the nature of this role, you’ll be required to undertake regular domestic travel and ad hoc international travel, and you may be required to attend the office to support critical engineering implementation projects and urgently respond to incidents, occasionally during evenings and weekends. Therefore, you’ll need to have a flexible approach and you’ll need to be comfortable working in a variety of working environments.

You’ll be a Certified Professional Auditor, qualified to degree standard in an appropriate engineering or construction discipline, and have a full membership of an appropriate professional institution and extensive experience as a senior authorised person.

You’ll also demonstrate:

• Extensive experience in a senior operational role and knowledge of electrical safety rules
• Extensive experience in a similar critical environment at management level
• The ability to work with an end-to-end supply chain, strong influencing and communication skills, and the ability to make informed risk based decisions while in incident mode
• Experience attending and overseeing specified electrical and mechanical testing and critical infrastructure changes
• The ability to maintain oversight of plant selection and vendor testing demonstrations
• The flexibility and drive to be available on call for critical incidents