Job Description
Due to sustained and increased secured demand, we are expanding our engineering team for UK projects. We are pursuing several HV Transmission opportunities with National Grid and are seeking to hire a HV Transmission Engineering Lead. This role will involve heading a team of electrical engineers and designers within Costain's in-house Engineering Services team.
You will be responsible for managing the electrical engineering delivery for the design of major Transmission projects across the UK, working closely with our other engineering disciplines, sector teams and commercial functions throughout the project lifecycle from tendering and preconstruction through to construction and handover.
The role will report to the Group Director of Engineering Services and offers a hybrid working arrangement predominantly based in London, Manchester or Aberdeen with a requirement to occasionally work at multiple locations throughout the UK depending on contract needs.
At Costain, we believe diverse perspectives drive innovation. If you're passionate about making a positive impact and think you can bring value to our team, we'd love to hear from you—even if you don't tick every box. Your unique skills and experiences could be exactly what we need.
Responsibilities
* Serve as the primary liaison between the Engineering Services team and other departments as well as external supply chain partners across Costain's portfolio of HV Transmission projects.
* Effectively communicate with key project stakeholders on design progress, challenges, risks and outcomes to ensure alignment and manage expectations.
* Accurately forecast future team resource needs, ensuring effective utilisation of design resources and recruitment to meet demand. Ensure the collective team skillsets and deployed resources accurately align with current and future project demands and complexity.
* Lead the successful delivery of electrical engineering services across all Transmission contracts, ensuring scope and service requirements, budgets and programmes are clearly defined and adhered to. Ensure the smooth transition between design phases, including buildability, monitoring progress against budget and programme, and clear reporting of this to senior management, sectors and clients.
* Ensure the delivery of technically compliant and quality-controlled designs which meet scope requirements, including lead value engineering proposals, ensuring all the necessary technical and regulatory assurance activities have been undertaken across the program lifecycle. This may include validation processes, change control process, testing and best practice to maintain design or product integrity, including BIM. Proactively assist in resolving complex technical and delivery issues where identified.
* Collaborate strategically with Costain's Energy Sector in the pursuit of HV transmission opportunities as a subject matter expert to develop best in class value propositions and winning bids to secure a strong future pipeline of work aligned with Costain's growth ambitions.
* Facilitate the capturing and clear communication of technical risks and opportunities to all stakeholders. Oversee the effective management of design change, applying a systematic challenge to minimise unnecessary scope variation. Act as a visible leader in developing a design delivery culture that emphasises ownership and accountability. Support the Safety by Design & Engineering forum or other similar forums, representing the business stream, as required. Embed a structured approach to lessons learned and apply continuous improvement principles to all aspects of engineering services.
Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
Essential
* A background in managing the delivery of electrical engineering services on complex HV transmission projects across the programme lifecycle.
* Recent delivery experience on National Grid sub-station projects.
* Experience in successfully managing the delivery of complex engineering scopes to budget and programme.
* Demonstratable experience in effective change management and leading value engineering exercises.
* A background in managing engineering teams, responsible for managing workload, resource demand and skillsets.
* Significant engineering design experience within the field of HV transmission.
* Experience with managing 3rd party designers / sub-contractors, including technical approvals, compliance with customer specifications and resource competency etc.
* Experienced technical manager capable of reviewing technical quality and compliance of design deliverables; understanding of key technical concepts across a range of engineering design disciplines (e.g. civil, mechanical, process).
* Demonstratable record of promoting safety in design, lean design concepts, sustainable practices or digital innovations.
Desirable
* Experience setting up, leading or operating other aspects of project engineering delivery such as design workflows, information management systems, quality controls.
Qualifications
Essential
* Degree qualification in a relevant engineering discipline.
* Chartered Engineer (IET, IMechE, ICE, other).
About Us
Costain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future‑shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
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