Position Details
Job Type: Contract
IR35 Status: Inside IR35
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 12 Months
Location: Reading
Hybrid/Remote Working: 2‑3 days onsite, home working rest of the week
Hours of Work: 37 hours per week
Role Overview
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Engineering Manager to lead the delivery of complex facility design projects within a secure, regulated environment. This role will act as the primary engineering representative on projects, ensuring designs meet business needs, functional performance goals and lifecycle requirements.
Responsibilities
- Act as the lead engineering representative for allocated projects, ensuring delivery against requirements, safety standards, schedule, quality and value for money.
- Serve as the main point of contact for all engineering matters.
- Ensure Engineering Requirements are appropriate and provide expert advice to senior stakeholders.
- Recommend budgets and programme timelines required to deliver engineering design work.
- Assess suitability and competency of both internal and external engineering resources.
- Lead, coordinate and deliver facility design solutions with appropriate safety documentation.
- Maintain oversight of design development through routine reviews.
- Deliver design solutions that meet business needs, functional and life‑cycle performance and regulatory/licensing requirements.
- Manage Design Intent and Configuration throughout the full project lifecycle.
- Support continuous improvement, capability development and change initiatives within the engineering function.
- Provide and deliver integrated facility design solutions.
- Ensure designs are deliverable and suitable for each lifecycle stage (tender, construction, commissioning, handover).
- Maintain high personal standards in health, safety, security, environment and quality.
- Support development of facility design capability within the engineering organisation.
Qualifications & Experience Required
- Proven leadership experience within a project delivery environment.
- Strong multidisciplinary engineering background.
- Knowledge of production systems and process partner equipment.
- Prior experience integrating designs into new facilities.
- Good electrical understanding.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Detailed knowledge of High Voltage and Low Voltage building design and installation with an emphasis on low voltage systems.
- Demonstrable ability to chair technical reviews.
Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
We celebrate and support diversity and are committed to ensuring equal opportunities for both employees and applicants.
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