Department Manager Electrical Engineering

Overview

As Department Manager for Electrical Engineering, you lead the discipline to secure the right people, skills and governance for safe, high-quality delivery. You’ll align capabilities with current and future project needs, drive collaboration with stakeholders, and uphold technical standards. You’ll shape delivery through strategic resource management, performance oversight and engineering governance across delivery centers. This role offers influence over proposals, cost-effective execution and global standardisation efforts in a sustainability-focused company.

Responsibilities

• Maintain up-to-date personnel profiles and discipline capability aligned with future needs
• Foster strong relationships with customers, suppliers, contractors and internal stakeholders
• Contribute to networking, negotiations and strategic alliances with commercial judgement
• Maintain pricing and estimating records to support competitive proposals
• Support proposals by developing engineering execution strategies and presenting to customers
• Manage resource utilisation and discipline structures across multiple delivery centers
• Oversee performance development, team-building and inclusive leadership
• Provide change leadership, strategic thinking and solution-focused coaching
• Act as primary contact for electrical discipline matters and own technical competency programs
• Oversee team competency, role allocation and technical authority requirements
• Ensure electrical governance, safety, quality and regulatory compliance
• Standardise equipment specifications, drawings, calculations and templates across locations
• Ensure projects meet requirements through guidelines and resource management
• Collaborate with Project Management Teams on staffing, scope changes and delivery performance
• Review and approve work within delegated authority, ensuring quality and customer satisfaction

Key requirements

• Bachelor in Electrical and/or Power Engineering (Master preferred)
• Chartered member of IET
• Proven track record directing and delivering complex electrical projects at LV–EHV (up to 33kV; UK/EU EHV advantageous)
• Experience leading electrical discipline teams across multiple locations
• Strong project supervision, risk management, quality control, procurement and construction execution
• Deep understanding of LV/MV/HV/EHV power networks and their design, construction and operation
• Effective communication and ability to present to senior management
• Cross-discipline work experience and interface coordination in energy, power, chemicals and resources
• Knowledge of governance, project execution, commercial awareness and resource management
• Experience with global standardization of equipment specifications and documents
• Familiarity with international engineering practices and standards
• Open to contributing to new company-wide initiatives such as power, renewables, DC

• Strong leadership and people management
• Collaborative stakeholder engagement
• Clear communication and presentation skills
• Electrical discipline governance and quality programs
• Lifecycle project delivery across LV–EHV
• Estimation, budgeting and cost control for proposals

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