Engineering Manager

Overview

As Engineering Manager, you lead strategic engineering and design governance for a major Skye reinforcement project, steering multidisciplinary teams from bid to completion. You will align design delivery with the project manager, manage budget, schedule and risk, and drive value engineering with internal and external stakeholders. You’ll ensure governance, right-first-time delivery, and BIM implementation across the lifecycle. This role offers a hands-on leadership position within a critical infrastructure project with significant cross-functional collaboration and travel to the Isle of Skye.

Pay / Benefits

• Smart working with up to 40% remote work
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• maternity/adoption leave with 28 weeks full pay
• pension
• share incentive plan
• volunteering leave

Responsibilities

• Coordinate design solutions for the project on behalf of Design & Engineering alongside the Project Manager
• Lead a multi-disciplinary team (Civil, Structural, Line Design, Substations, Cabling) to deliver design scope
• Interface with stakeholders to drive effective communication and design integration
• Manage safety, quality, budget, programme, and change within the design scope
• Lead constructability and value-for-money reviews with input from construction and operations
• Ensure governance, assurance, gated lifecycle, and right-first-time principles across the project
• Prepare monthly project reports covering programme, cost, and risk
• Maintain project documents and manage internal/external interfaces
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement to enhance safety, speed, and efficiency
• Manage design scope changes with the Project Manager and commercial team
• Provide technical input to contract management and support operations on site
• Address Non-Conformance Reports and promote Safety and Sustainability by Design
• Ensure BIM implementation on each project and maintain PARAM according to WBS

Key requirements

• Experience in engineering, design delivery management or similar delivery role
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management
• Commitment to health and safety principles and Zero Harm philosophy
• Experience of managing budgets
• Solid engineering knowledge and experience

• strong communication
• stakeholder management
• leadership
• design management
• budget and cost control
• change management

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