Regional Engineering Manager
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Coventry Store Support Centre - Field Based and Home, Coventry, CV1 1FL
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Logistics
Closing date: 26 January 2026
Requisition ID: 400043302
Why Join Us
Joining our team at Sainsbury's as a Regional Engineering Manager in our Logistics Fleet & Compliance department offers a unique opportunity to lead and drive fleet compliance and engineering standards across multiple sites, ensuring the safety, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of our operations. You will have the chance to work collaboratively with various stakeholders, manage key projects, and influence positive changes within a dynamic and fast-paced environment. With access to extensive resources, support, and professional development opportunities, you will be empowered to make a meaningful impact and shape the future of logistics at Sainsbury's.
Please not, this role will be predominantly home and field based and will require the post holder to be able to travel across our fulfilment centres across the Midlands region
What you'll do
As a Regional Engineering Manager at Sainsbury's, you will oversee fleet compliance, uptime, costs, audits, and engineering standards across multiple sites, including in-house and third-party logistics providers. Your role will involve ensuring the fleets are safe, legal, and cost-effective, aligning with Sainsbury's standards. You will work closely with Depot Leadership teams and Central teams to manage fleet incidents, maintenance, and service level agreements, while also playing a crucial role in wider engineering projects, network development, and sustainability initiatives. Your expertise in fleet, Mechanical Handling Equipment (MHE), and compliance legislation will be essential as you drive efficiencies, manage projects, and uphold industry best practises to deliver high-quality and compliant fleet operations.
Who you are
As a Regional Engineering Manager for Sainsbury's Fleet & Compliance division, you are a seasoned professional with extensive knowledge and experience in fleet management, Mechanical Handling Equipment, and compliance legislation. Your strong understanding of logistics operations, engineering practises, and industry best practises allows you to drive fleet operations in line with high standards and budget requirements. With a sharp commercial focus, ability to analyse data, and make critical decisions in a fast-paced environment, you excel in managing engineering projects, optimising efficiencies, and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. Your resilience, positive mindset, and excellent communication skills enable you to build strong relationships, influence stakeholders, and drive continuous improvement within the organisation.
Essential Skills you need to know and show
- Extensive knowledge of fleet, Mechanical Handling Equipment and compliance legislation, policies, and procedures
- Fully understand of the end-to-end logistics operations and experience in working in a logistics environment.
- Significant knowledge of Engineering Practices both internally and externally
- Understand the external trends and best practice for all Fleet, MHE and Compliance
- Experience using Computer based software systems e.g., Zenith, MHE Manufacturers system
- Experience in managing and delivering end to end Project management on a smaller scale e.g., Engineering process or systems changes.
- Ability to analyse data and to present that information to stakeholders up to SMs in influential manner.
- Excellent relationship and stakeholder management skills - ability to gain commitment to new ways of working.
- An awareness of working in a highly Unionised environment and an understanding of the importance of building positive and mutually beneficial relationships with these key stakeholders
- Driving licence B preferred C+E.
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We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them: Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform. Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private heathcare. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme. Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave. Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibiity criteria may apply).
