Head of Electrical Engineering

EnviroTech Talent an award winning clean energy headhunter, we exclusively support companies accelerating the race to Net Zero.

We are currently working with an exciting client dedicated to growing sustainable heat networks in the UK.

Location: Remote, with travel to sites as required across the UK (office in London)

The Client 

Culture is everything, our client is working to ensure they remain open, transparent and supportive through an exciting transitional period.

Their greatest aspiration is to become an employer of choice within the sector, ensuring we are in strong position to attract and retain the best talent by creating a positive working environment where individuals can thrive.

Due to natural succession within the company we are seeking a Head of Electrical Engineering to join this exciting client.

The Role

The Head of Electrical Engineering provides the discipline lead in all aspects of electrical, instrumentation, control, and automation engineering within the company. The role includes the provision of technical advice at all levels of the business, managing a small support team, external resources, and design output including distribution network connections, high-voltage and low-voltage electrical installations, control, automation and building management systems.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a strong focus on health and safety at work across team activities and outputs, including toolbox talks, mandatory training and events, and incident reporting.
• Establish and maintain technical standards and quality assurance policies and procedures, reflecting Statutory requirements and industry best practice.
• Manage the workload and performance of direct reports within the electrical engineering team.
• The personnel and resource management of the team, from recruitment and inductions through to development plans and appraisals.
• Prepare resource estimates and resource plans, and internal support agreements for project lead approval.
• Complete engineering design activities from feasibility through to developed design, including system modelling, CAD drawings and specifications, incorporating design risk assessments and design reviews as appropriate.
• Plan and supervise project design verification, testing and commissioning using internal and external specialist resources as required.
• Identify and manage appropriate consultant and subcontract engineering services as required to supplement internal resources.
• Manage consultant and subcontract engineering design delivery acting in an intelligent customer capacity.
• Collaborate with business development, concept, estimating, mechanical design, commissioning, project management, adoptions, and concession management teams from identification of opportunities through to site operations.
• Represent the electrical engineering discipline as a member of the business Technical Governance Committee.
• Support the business standards and compliance team to ensure processes and procedures are appropriate for business needs and include lessons learned.
• Conduct incident investigations, identifying root cause and opportunities for improvement.
• Develop own and team skills, knowledge and experience to meet business objectives, promote staff retention and support succession planning.
• Review and maintain appropriate team resources including engineering design tools and technical references.
• Maintain regular reporting of workload and activity within the team and through line management to ensure efficient use of resources and timely completion of agreed work scopes.

Role Requirements

• Chartered Electrical Engineer.
• Management level experience across the breadth of the electrical engineering field.
• 12 years plus experience of delivery of industrial and commercial scale electricity and heat generation and distribution projects.
• Degree qualified in relevant field.
• Ideally have significant experience of public electricity distribution network connections processes, embedded gas turbine/gas engine combined heat and power plant, and the application of low carbon technologies including heat pumps.
• Ideally experience of presenting at exec level.
• Qualifications or experience in working within AUTOCAD environment. Experienced Leader and proven experience of developing a team

Candidate Requirements

• Right to work in the UK.

• Excellent in-depth working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Exceptional communications skills, both written and verbal.
• Problem solver with a high level of initiative and solution focused.
• Natural sense of responsibility, working autonomously but equally displays strong team spirit.
• Detail and accuracy are a necessity.
• Respect for confidentiality and ability to operate in a diplomatic manner.
• Ability to constantly reprioritise, across multiple workstreams, meeting deadlines

Benefits

• Flexible working
• Healthcare
• Car allowance
• Pension contribution
• Other benefits on an individual basis can be discussed