Location: Flexible, hybrid
Company Overview: We are a dynamic design and build company operating within the process industry. Known for innovation and delivering high-quality solutions, we are investing in the advancement of our engineering capabilities. As we evolve our approach to engineering design and production, we are seeking a visionary and hands-on Engineering Resource Manager to ensure we have the right flow of trained Engineering staff.
About the Role: As an Engineering Resource Manager, you will be responsible for leading the ongoing enhancement of our engineering organisational capacity. This includes evaluating the resource capacity needs, developing a resource strategic plan, supporting recruitment, maximising internalisation, building connections, controlling and coordinating resources and performance.
You will report directly to the Engineering Director. Location is flexible.
Responsibilities: -
Forecasting
1. Lead resource demand forecasting with support from the Regional Engineering Leads for a 3 to 5 year lookahead that includes reports on workload visibility and stability.
Meeting demand
2. Develop a strategic resourcing plan.
3. Plan and establish a supply of capable designers to meet the demand. Support closing the gap if there is misalignment between resource supply and demand and skills.
Supporting Recruitment
4. Support the launching and maintaining recruitment campaigns where required. Coordinate technical leads with authority to conduct first interviews.
5. Find innovative ways and lessons learnt to securing and retaining resources.
6. Support transparency of potential candidates across Engineering whilst working within GDPR requirements.
Internalisation, offshore, external
7. Maximise internationalisation of design if can’t be taken on by MWHT Engineering, particularly HPD.
8. Orientate between design houses to maximise capabilities and sustainability of each entity.
9. Provide pipeline visibility and stability for each design house, understand their complimenting and additive services, whether core design services or specialist call off services.
10. Support the commercial approach and system alignment to their engagement.
11. Support Enterprise/JV’s and support establishing ways to effective recruitment.
Sustainable supplier relationships
12. Support the ELT and REL’s maintaining trusting relationships with RSK internal companies and external design houses.
Building Connections
13. Be the Engineering’s representative at the Building Connections event.
14. Help build people connectivity across Engineering.
Control and Coordination
15. Control and coordinate cross – regional resource allocation. This includes developing, communicating, and upholding the resource protocol.
16. Motivate and promote collaboration.
17. Ensure that the right work environment maximising effective supply and opportunity to deliver.
18. Ensure roles of internal assigned staff are clear. Help induct assigned staff into new frameworks.
19. Be cognisance of margin return across frameworks when assigning staff.
20. Support ensuring that IFS Engineering organograms are up to date.
21. Monitor utilisation and take appropriate management actions to maximise.
Graduate and Apprenticeship Intake
22. Take point on establishing graduate and apprenticeship members for the following years intake.
23. Support the Engineering skills Group.
Evaluation
24. Deliver an annual review of salaries in the Engineering marketplace, promotions and spot bonuses.
25. Support Monitoring and analysing Engineering leaver interviews.
26. Identify measures to monitor attendance and performance and support their automation.