Design Manager

IUS offers excellent career opportunities in engineering, technical, administrative and management roles throughout the UK.

We are always keen to hear from candidates with a passion for the industry we operate within and the customers we serve.

Position

Design Manager

  • Area

    Operations

  • Location

    Stockton or Wakefield

  • Report To

    Head of Operations

  • Salary Range

    Dependent on experience

Position Overview

A Design Manager is required to lead and develop a multi-skilled team of engineering colleagues to deliver the detailed designs for all workstream areas and to drive the provision of an enhanced level of support to the Operations team to ensure all relevant contractual obligations are met.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the IUS design team to provide detailed designs for all workstreams across the business
  • Enhance current design processes to reduce company risk and liability via formal validation, verification, and approval prior to and during construction
  • Improve internal processes and procedures to ensure all designs completed within IUS are appropriately checked, validated, verified, and approved prior to being issued for construction
  • Control design liabilities by implementing robust approval procedures to ensure all designs meet performance parameters and client expectations
  • Build an operations-based design team to strengthen design capability with regards to resource, training, competence, and experience
  • Develop competencies to allow IUS to be appointed as a Principal Designer under CDM regulations
  • Develop and maintain a suite of IUS design procedures, standards, specifications, and guidance documents
  • Maintain continuity and consistency of design work for all relevant workstreams ensuring that delivery timescales and targets are not affected
  • Design engineers and technicians are progressively upskilled to meet current and future work programme demands
  • Evidence that the team are achieving optimised utilisation and are meeting and exceeding customer charter targets
  • Create a robust quality assurance process for all relevant project, contract, or framework designs
  • Talent profile of all resources maintained, with high growth potential assessed and actively managed

Key Competencies

  • Leadership
  • Planning and organizing
  • Accurate and detail orientated
  • Customer service
  • Commercial awareness
  • Colleague development
  • Time management
  • SHEQ understanding

Essential qualifications & attributes

  • HNC in Electrical Engineering or Degree in Electrical Engineering
  • Professional Registration to Incorporated or Chartered Engineer level
  • Experience years’ experience of working within an electricity distribution network operator type business or similar in a design role
  • Network analysis and specialist studies using company software to ensure network operation and compliance with prevailing standards such as ER P28, G5 and G99
  • Protection systems
  • Full UK Driving License

Desirable qualification & attributes

  • Design of cable networks, overhead lines, and substation installations at 33kV, 66kV and 132kV
  • Experience of leading, coaching and mentoring a design team

Applications should be emailed to [email protected]

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