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The Role
We're looking for an Engineering Technical Manager to play a key role in shaping and maintaining our engineering standards, documentation, and best practices. You'll act as a technical bridge between the Head of Design Engineering, senior designers, and wider engineering teams, ensuring our design outputs are consistent, compliant, and continually improving.
This is a hands‑on technical leadership position, ideal for someone with strong solar PV engineering experience, excellent documentation skills, and a passion for quality and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
Core Responsibilities
1. Maintain and manage engineering documentation, standards, and processes.
2. Provide technical updates, guidance, and best‑practice feedback to the design team.
3. Review and challenge unclear or incomplete information in design packs.
4. Lead the distribution and communication of new or updated documentation.
5. Support training programmes across the design team.
6. Collaborate closely with the Quality, Commissioning & Maintenance (QCM) team and the Quality Engineer (QE).
7. Act as the primary technical point of contact for senior designers.
8. Create performance guarantee standards and review client-submitted versions.
9. Attend site visits where required and approved.
10. Perform random design spot checks and quality audits, providing written reports.
11. Support attendance at industry events, technical exhibitions, and technology showcases.
12. Help ensure the design team remains aligned with the latest industry developments, standards, and technologies.
About You
Essential Skills & Experience
13. Strong background in solar PV design, engineering, or technical management.
14. Excellent understanding of engineering documentation, standards, and quality control.
15. Ability to communicate complex technical information clearly and effectively.
16. Confident in challenging design details and ensuring high standards are upheld.
17. Strong organisational skills with experience supporting team training or technical workshops.
18. Collaborative mindset with the ability to influence and support multi‑disciplinary teams.
19. Excellent understanding of the BS and the IET best practice guide to Solar PV
20. Excellent understanding of RC62, FM global, Loss prevention standards and the like.
Beneficial
21. Experience within a growing engineering or renewable energy department.
22. Understanding of commissioning, O&M, or quality assurance activities.
23. Familiarity with performance guarantee modelling or client technical documentation.
Required Qualifications
24. 18th Edition
25. QCF level 4 (e.g. City and guilds Design)
26. QCF level 3 (e.g. electrical installations, testing and inspection; City and guilds -52)
What We Offer
27. Opportunity to help shape technical standards within a rapidly growing solar engineering team.
28. Career progression pathways within Mitie Power and Grid
29. Access to industry training, events, and personal development support.
30. A collaborative, forward‑thinking environment committed to excellence and innovation.
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Dan Dyke at .