Lead Engineer

General information

City/town: London
Job field: Other Operations
External closing date: Friday, June 12, 2026
Type of contract: Permanent
ID: 6359

Description and requirements

At Skanska, we’re shaping the way we live, work and connect. As one of the world’s largest construction and development companies, we work together with customers, communities and partners to shape a better society.

You will be working in the Building Services OU, as part our Facilities Management sector, based in London, where we bring Skanska’s purpose to build for a better society to life—creating healthy workplaces, comfortable homes and efficient facilities that improve people’s lives. Through collaboration and innovation, we deliver high\-quality solutions that make a lasting, positive impact for people and communities.

We are currently looking for a Lead Engineer who will ensure that our delivery performance is in line with contract obligations and Building Services business processes. These services must be delivered to budget expectation or better and with high levels of customer satisfaction.

As the Lead Engineer, you will:

• Provide resilient engineering support across sites, including cover for sickness and holidays, ensuring service delivery meets contractual performance standards.


• Maintain agreed KPIs and SLAs, ensuring best use of all resources to ensure targets are met while supporting sites and Contract Managers.


• Supporting the Contract Managers and Helpdesk team in reviewing subcontractor quotations and RAMS (Risk Assessments and Method Statements).


• Conduct regular quality checks of site logbooks and subcontractor works, serving as a support function for the contact for internal/external audits and compliance checks.


• Provide hands\-on operational support where necessary to maintain service continuity, uphold site performance, and meet client expectations.

• Extensive experience delivering a Hard Services FM contract.


• Management and technical qualification.


• Experience of managing commercial sites or a portfolio of sites.


• Management experience of service delivery in high profile offices.


• Ability to manage and prioritise a demanding and varying workload and communicate both verbally and in writing with all level of staff and clients.

• 24/7 digital GP service for you and your family


• Financial wellbeing and employee assistance


• Professional development


• Enhanced family benefits (including maternity, paternity, dependants and parental bereavement leave)

We thrive through embracing differences as we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high\-performing teams. We call it The Skanska Way.

Flexible working

Where possible, we offer a range of flexible working options, and we would be happy to discuss this at the application stage if this is something you’d like to explore.

Reasonable adjustments

We want you to feel confident and supported throughout every stage of our recruitment process. If you need any adjustments to help you during your application, please contact us at recruitment@skanska.co.uk or call 0330 105 2000 – Option 5 \& 1\.

Closing date

We encourage you to apply as early as possible, as the closing date may be subject to change.

If this role would be of interest, please click apply and join our team of 27,000 problem solvers and creative thinkers, where knowledge is our greatest creation. We share, listen and support your success – every step of the way.

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