Hybrid HV Transmission Engineering Lead

at Costain Group PLC

• Job title: HV Transmission Engineering Lead
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• HV Transmission Engineering Lead overseeing electrical engineering teams for UK HV Transmission projects. Collaborating on design delivery, managing stakeholder communication, and leading complex engineering scopes.

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.
• Must accurately forecast future team resource needs, ensuring effective utilisation of design resources and recruitment to meet demand. Expected to ensure the collective team skillsets and deployed resources accurately align with current and future project demands and complexity.
• Responsible for leading 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.
• Will be responsible for ensuring 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.
• Must 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. Expected to 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.

Requirements

• Degree qualification in a relevant engineering discipline
• Chartered Engineer (IET, IMechE, ICE, other)
• 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.

Benefits

• 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.