Area Manager – Main Plant (Central Region)
Cambuslang
Salary
£70,800 to £88,500 per annum plus up to 20% annual bonus, car allowance (£450 pcm) and family healthcare
Flexible Hybrid Working
Flexible hybrid working model is available.
What You’ll Be Doing
As an Area Manager, you will be responsible for Main Plant Design in the Central region within the SPT Core Projects business, delivering projects with a Totex value of £200m/annum to over £500m/annum by 2027.
You will have line‑management responsibility for a number of Design Leads (who also have direct reports) and Lead Engineers.
Responsibilities Include
* Overall responsibility for ensuring Main Plant Engineering deliverables in the allocated Central region are delivered on time and in line with SPT Standards and Policies.
* Lead and manage a group of professional engineers to deliver cost‑effective end‑to‑end design solutions within Central transmission projects/programmes and ensure regulatory financial allowances.
* Liaise with other team leaders to address coordination and collaboration required across different regions and functions to deliver satisfactory change outcomes.
* Ensure that all HSEQ policies are applied and compliance with all Engineering policies, standards and procedures.
* Support standardised design solutions to drive efficiency and design consistency across the SPT business.
* People lead of a group of professional engineers to deliver projects.
* Ensure adequate training, coaching and mentoring is in place to further advance the knowledge, skills and experience of the team.
* Deliver performance management for a team of professional engineers.
What You’ll Bring
* A Degree in Electrical or other appropriate Engineering.
* Chartered Engineer Status (or working towards).
* Building and applying knowledge skills, technical oversight and management skills.
* Experience in designing Main Plant engineering for large electrical infrastructure projects.
* People and communication skills with the ability to form effective working relationships with key stakeholders.
* Ability to implement, apply and promote CDM and Health & Safety best practice in a design environment.
* Experience in the implementation of new technologies and engineering solutions to achieve reductions in costs and carbon‑sustainable projects.
* Broad thinking skills.
* Having the ability and understanding of the plant and equipment deployed for transmission networks and how it is operated and maintained.
* Experience in the use of BIM for designing Transmission substations.
What's In It For You
Competitive salary reviewed annually and a range of benefits, including pension contributions and a variety of employee support programmes.
Benefits
* 36 days annual leave.
* Holiday Purchase – increase work/life balance with extra annual leave.
* Share Schemes.
* Payroll Giving and Charity Matched Funding.
* Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases.
* Electric Vehicle Schemes – transition to green/clean driving.
* Cycle to Work scheme and Public Transport Season Ticket Loans.
* Healthcare benefit options including Dental Insurance, Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan and annual Health Assessments.
* Life Assurance (4x salary).
* Access to SavySmart financial wellbeing support.
* Shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more.
Closing Date
23 June 2026
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