Authorising Engineer; Technical Assurance BBC

Authorising Engineer (Technical Assurance) BBC

Location: Remote with UK wide travel

Salary: Competitive

Working hours: 0800 to 1700 Monday to Friday

Benefits: Car allowance, Health cover, 25 Days Holiday + BH, Flex Benefits (EMCOR UK discount scheme)

At EMCOR UK, we revolutionise facilities management by combining our engineering heritage and innovation capability. We prioritise people in everything we do, collaborating closely with our customers to understand all their needs, from the big picture to day‑to‑day operations. Our purpose is to “create a better world at work”. Using our unique insight platform, "One Data World", we harness data‑driven intelligence to make informed decisions, adapting our services to meet our customers’ evolving requirements.

This allows us to cultivate an enhanced workplace experience for their teams whilst optimising efficiency, meticulously managing every asset, and minimising their impact on the planet. All supported by our commitment to safety, compliance, and assurance. Our partnering approach empowers our customers to shape a better future. Whether guiding their path to net zero or redeveloping their facilities for enhanced efficiency, we create better places for work whilst taking away the burden of facility operations, freeing up our customers to concentrate on their business.

The Authorising Engineer ensures compliance with statutory and legislative requirements for electrical and mechanical systems. This involves developing and auditing Safe Systems of Work (SSoW), conducting risk‑based technical audits to identify and address technical risks, providing technical support, mentorship and assessment of Authorised Persons and Competent Persons and enhancing technical compliance and assurance by identifying improvement opportunities across all related technical disciplines.

Provide expert technical assurance support to the ACCOUNT, assisting the Head of Engineering and Risk Management through the Senior Authorising Engineer (SAE) across the People, Policy, and Process pillars.

• Develop and deliver the EMCOR UK (EUK) Technical and Safety Competency Management System (CMS) across the estate, including identifying, assessing, and periodically monitoring and auditing Authorised Persons (AP) and Competent Persons (CP).
• Undertake EUK’s audit and assurance plan by conducting professional technical compliance audits, identifying corrective actions, and ensuring their closure and reporting.
• Provide AP support to mitigate priority resilience risks as needed.
• Develop discipline‑specific consultancy activities for the account, as requested.
• Collaborate with other Authorising Engineers to enhance EUK’s technical service offerings, including Supply Chain Partners (SCP) technical onboarding process.

• Ensure EUK’s ‘Significant Risk’ Safe Systems of Work (SSoW) across the customer estate are suitable, sufficient, and compliant with technical, safety, and legislative standards through regular reviews with the Safety, Quality, and Risk (SQR) and Technical and Assurance teams.
• Create, develop, deliver and refine technical assurance files, logbooks, policy and training documents, and other Integrated Management System (IMS) documentation as required.
• Develop technical publications relevant to the customer estate, incorporating industry best practices from leading organisations such as IET, CIBSE, REFCOM, GASSAFE, BESA, SFG
  20, and BSRIA.
• Develop and deliver account technical communication plans, including forums, flyers, toolbox talks, Learning from Experience (LFE) and updates, as required.

• Support the Technical and Safety Assurance Manager (TSAM) in updating the Technical Assurance Group database, registers, and trackers with account details for progress reporting during weekly/monthly reviews.
• Assist the SAE and TSAM in drafting, peer reviewing, approving, and publishing new technical documentation, including Compliance Bulletins, Directives, and Alerts across the customer estate.
• Conduct horizon scanning activities by participating in industry body webinars and other communications.
• Provide technical…