Regional Technical & Governance Manager

We are seeking an experienced Regional Technical and Governance Manager to provide technical leadership, governance oversight and engineering expertise across multiple sites in Central Europe for a high profile financial services client. This is a newly created role offering exceptional exposure across the EMEA region. You will strengthen operational standards, ensure compliance, optimise maintenance delivery and act as a trusted technical advisor to site teams and senior stakeholders.

Job Description

In this regional role, you will oversee technical governance, engineering management and compliance across sites in Germany, France, Luxembourg and Monaco. You will support operational teams, collaborate with EMEA colleagues, and ensure consistency in technical standards, risk management and audit readiness.

Working closely with senior stakeholders, you will lead governance activity, drive continuous improvement and maintain critical systems and assets. You will also influence operational excellence through mentoring, structured feedback and shaping best practice across the region.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with strong engineering expertise, proven regional or multi-site experience and a deep understanding of critical environments. The successful candidate will play a key role in strengthening governance and technical resilience on a major strategic account.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead regional governance activity, ensuring audit readiness, compliance, and alignment with ISO standards and client requirements.
• Standardise documents, processes, maintenance practices and project management across all sites.
• Monitor KPIs, identify risks, manage incidents, and elevate non‑compliance where necessary.
• Oversee engineering delivery, technical standards, critical systems, asset lifecycle management and whole‑life costing for investment decisions.
• Ensure safe systems of work, consistent service quality and effective collaboration with technical leads, client teams, and suppliers.
• Manage supplier capability, performance, access and training requirements.
• Support internal audits, incident reviews, governance workstreams and produce regular governance, KPI and audit reports.
• Drive efficiency, service improvements, standardisation and technical capability through training and mentorship.
• Meet scheduled audit and performance targets while ensuring clear communication and alignment with the wider EMEA team.

Professional and Personal Competencies/Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in technical or engineering management, ideally within critical or complex building environments.
• Background in Facilities Management, Projects or Construction
• Mechanical & Electrical Engineering expertise.
• Ideally degree qualified (or equivalent) in Mechanical & Electrical Engineering.
• Solid understanding of governance, risk, compliance, legislation and safe working standards within the region.
• Skilled in stakeholder engagement, influence, documentation, reporting, data management and presenting to senior leadership.
• Experience working within organisations with large property portfolios and managing specialist technical requirements.
• Fluency in English is essential.
• French or German language skills considered an advantage.

The Company

ISS is a world-leading workplace and facility management company, connecting people and places to make the world work better. Working with customers day by day, side by side, we understand every aspect of the user experience.

Through a unique combination of intelligent solutions, high standards and people who care, to help our customers achieve their purpose, whether it’s hospitals healing patients, businesses producing the next great innovation, or airports bringing passengers home to their families. ISS is committed to doing business the right way, taking its corporate responsibility very seriously. Our passion is people.

We offer you a challenging and exciting career in an organisation with people at its heart. In ISS, everyone has the opportunity to develop, grow and make a difference. #Becomewhoyouwant #Bepartofsomethingbigger

ISS is proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer.

ISS welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race (which includes race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin and caste), religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or educational background.

We are a Disability Confident Committed (Level 2) employer, proudly supporting and promoting inclusive hiring practices in line with the UK government’s Disability Confident scheme.

Our passion for inclusivity and diversity makes ISS a more creative, productive and happy place to work.