About the Role
Our work matters to millions. It’ll matter to you too. Join our Power Transmission and Distribution team as a Project Technical Lead on the Operational Team based in Aberdeenshire and you’ll be a big part of fascinating, complex, varied and meaningful work. This project-based role provides overall leadership and accountability for the technical and engineering delivery of the Longside 400 kV & 132 kV Substation Project, ensuring compliance with SSEN standards, NEC3 requirements, and the project’s engineering, constructability, and delivery obligations. Responsible for ensuring that all technical interfaces are effectively managed in line with target programme and project priorities.
Benefits
* Competitive salary, site allowances, company car, bonus and subsistence (subject to role T&Cs)
* Opportunity to play a defining technical leadership role on a nationally significant ASTI project
* Career development within an award-winning project management and engineering organisation
* A clear pathway to lead increasingly complex and high-profile infrastructure projects
* A supportive, inclusive environment where your expertise is valued and your impact is visible
* Company DC pension scheme up to 5% EEs & 7% ERs
* Wellbeing sessions – non-work-related activities such as walking, house duties etc.
* Opportunity to join into the company SIP scheme
* Flexible benefits window: options to purchase additional holidays, bikes, tech vouchers, dental cover, PMI etc.
* Reward platform where you can get discounts on shopping, insurance, cars etc.
* Hybrid working (where applicable)
* Enhanced company sickness scheme
* Enhanced company maternity/paternity/shared parental/adoption schemes
* 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
* Broad range of learning opportunities, such as professional qualifications
* Employee assistance programme
* Up to 2 days volunteering per year
* Company funded social events
* Access to the BB Academy for learning and development
Responsibilities
* Lead and manage the entire engineering and design function for the project, ensuring all deliverables are right‑first‑time, coordinated and programme driven
* Act as Design Authority at project level, providing clear technical direction and governance across all disciplines
* Ensure all designs are constructable, sequenced and fully aligned with construction methodology, logistics, access constraints and site conditions
* Drive early identification and resolution of technical risks, constraints and interdependencies
* Ensure all engineering and design deliverables are produced ahead of construction need dates, fully supporting the critical path
* Integrate design with procurement strategies, ensuring long‑lead equipment, subcontract packages and supplier information requirements are embedded in the programme
* Work closely with construction, planning and commercial teams to ensure design supports efficient delivery, cost certainty and programme optimisation
* Maintain clear line‑of‑sight between design progress, procurement commitments and construction readiness
* Ensure engineering outputs meet or exceed SSEN, statutory, safety and quality requirements
* Lead internal and external design reviews, technical assurance and acceptance processes
* Ensure all work is delivered with a clear focus on handover, certification and asset adoption
* Provide authoritative technical leadership to a multi‑disciplinary team including designers, engineers, planners and supply chain partners
* Build strong, trusted relationships with SSEN, designers, subcontractors and internal stakeholders
* Prepare and present clear, decision‑ready technical and programme updates to senior stakeholders
* Champion Zero Harm, engineering excellence, and a high‑performance culture across the project team
Qualifications
* Proven experience leading engineering and design delivery on major power or utilities infrastructure projects
* Strong understanding of substation design, construction sequencing and technical interfaces
* Demonstrable experience integrating design, programme, procurement and construction
* Credibility and confidence operating at client, director and supply‑chain leadership level
* Commercial awareness and understanding of how design decisions impact cost, risk and programme
* Strong working knowledge of NEC contracts and technical governance processes
* Recognised Project Management qualification
* Recognised and relevant Engineering qualification
EEO and Disability
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long‑term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.
Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
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