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Location

Coventry | United Kingdom

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Job description

Our client is a leading utility organisation and are one of the largest regulated water and sewerage companies in England and Wales. They provide over eight million people with fresh, clean drinking water every day and with an investment strategy of £6bn on new and existing assets such as pipes, treatment works and reservoirs, hiring the best talent is always a priority.

They are seeking a Lead Electrical Engineer to join their team on a permanent, full-time basis in Warwickshire or Derbyshire.

Salary: £ Negotiable + an excellent set of benefits including:

• Employer Pension Contribution twice the employer’s contribution up to 15%
• 28 days Annual Leave + 8 Public Holidays
• Life Assurance of x6 pensionable salary
• Income Protection
• Accident Cover
• Annual Bonus depending on company performance
• Ongoing support for professional development and further education.
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 28 days Annual Leave + 8 Public Holidays

The Role

The Lead Electrical Engineer will form part of the Design function as the business shifts towards operating as the Expert Client in the Capital Delivery & Commercial Organisation, there is a need to grow and develop the Design capability and expertise, the standards for the design team, and the governance around design delivery and ensure these align with the benefits this delivers to the business.

With input from senior leaders and the Chief Engineer and elsewhere in design, this role will determine how the team works and the standards they adopt.

Key Responsibilities of the Lead Electrical Engineer:

• Assess the design capability required to deliver the AMP programme.
• Drive innovation and develop new approaches and solutions.
• Communicate improvements to the Design team and hold leaders to account for adoption of standards (encouraging challenge and feedback for the purpose of innovation).
• Ensure learnings from past investment reviews are evaluated driving updates to standards, frameworks or innovation.
• Establish a network of external stakeholders to capture learnings, understand innovation and best practice and build into the plans for Capital Design technical standards.
• Provide input to the L&D strategy for the Design community.
• Define and create the mechanisms for assuring demonstrated evidence of capability (for Design development).
• Membership of COPS with an influencing role ensuring standards are adhered to, updated and maintained.
• Technical liaison with all suppliers and contractors and a point of contact for new products and ideas in their discipline area.

The Person

You will be a proactive individual who is fully conversant with tackling issues head on and developing a plan to overcome potential obstacles. Able to create medium term plans to facilitate the creation of plans that will ultimately drive benefits in regards to efficiencies and design.

The role will undoubtedly produce various challenges and therefore an ability to make swift, yet educated decisions in the face of ambiguity is a must coupled with highly effective communication skills in order to best utilise both positive and challenging messages.

The successful incumbent will have the tools to liaise with internal and external stakeholders to ascertain their input to ensure the best possible outcome. An ability to create, build and maintain key relationships within the business and from a customer and supplier aspect will be expected to drive efficiency and innovation.

Experience Required for the Lead Electrical Engineer:

• Experience in providing technical leadership to a large programme of capital works.
• The ability to lead by technical example a team engineers.
• Experience of working in a design environment (Utilities preferred) at a senior level.
• Experience of introducing (or extensive use of) QMS systems
• Effective at integrating with matrix teams.
• A Chartered Engineering status would be an advantage but not essential.

To apply or for more information, please contact Neil Cayley at Consilium Recruit at [email protected] or call 07527257851.

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