Technical Manager - Electrical Bias

N G Bailey; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000

Job description

London (with travel to sites around London and the SE)

Permanent

Competitive salary, travel/car allowance, and flexible benefit options

Summary

We have an exciting new opportunity for a Technical Manager, with electrical bias, to join our team based in London.

In this role you will lead, own and manage the technical risk and opportunities within the business, from inception through to project completion, and client handover, focussing on design optimisation, opportunity identification, and mitigation of technical risk.

You will ensure technical compliance with works information, scope, project specification and legislation, undertaking technical management of both internal and external designs.

This is a permanent/fixed term staff position with NG Bailey, and travel will be required to our project sites in and around London and the SE.

Some of the key deliverables in this role will include:

• Demonstrate appropriate health and safety leadership to ensure the safety first and foremost message is visible and alive throughout all activities.
• Lead the technical engineering management on internally and externally designed projects to successful completion, ensuring best value design, management of opportunities and risk mitigation.
• Provide technical advice and assistance to other areas of the business, and support business development from a technical perspective.
• Assist the Regional Design & Engineering Manager in the production of technical management fees for projects. Ensure the accuracy and integrity of technical management costs, values, and programme forecasts, seeking opportunities to suggest actions which mitigate risk and maximise profitability.
• Support the Principal Technical manager in the identification, delivery and attendance of CPDs, ensuring that the development of design/technical team’s competence is maintained.
• Prepare monthly project reports for senior stakeholders, highlighting progress, risks, opportunities, and resource issues.
• Advise on commercial progress against plan, any variances from plan, and the corrective actions being taken. On external designs, take ownership of the completion of the responsibilities matrix, ensuring scope gaps are mitigated.
• Build and maintain mutually beneficial customer, key supplier and internal relationships.
• Promote the design team and actively seek out new opportunities.
• Communicate proactively with project stakeholders to improve our collaboration with operational teams.
• Conduct regular independent design/technical reviews, ensuring designs are technically correct and represent best value, and comply with all legal and contractual requirements.
• Apply current legislation regarding building regulations, standards, CDM, quality control, commissioning, safety & environmental issues.

What we’re looking for:

• Someone from a design background, with extensive experience of mechanical/electrical building services design/technical management (Essential)
• Operational experience on project installation
• Good understanding of design and build, and traditional construction contracts
• Significant experience of commercial management on design projects

Qualifications or professional memberships (desirable)

• I.Eng, MCIBSE, MIET, B.Eng (Hons) or equivalent

We're always evolving our benefits to ensure we're attracting and retaining great people. Some of what you can expect includes:

• Salary sacrifice car scheme (Hybrid/Electric Vehicle)
• Pension with a leading provider and up to 8% employer contribution
• Personal Wellbeing and Volunteer Days
• Private Medical Insurance
• Free 24/7 365 Employee Assistance Program to support mental health and well-being (including counselling sessions and legal advice)
• Flexible benefits to suit from Dental Insurance, Gym Memberships, Give As You Earn, Travel Insurance, Tax Free Bikes.

Next Steps:

As a business, we’re on a journey to build on our culture where everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. This starts with recruitment and how we bring people into the organisation.

We’ll do our best to outline the recruitment process to you ahead of time with plenty of notice. If you require any accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure your needs are met.

About Us:

We are one of the leading independent engineering and services businesses in the UK. Founded in 1921, with a turnover of £500m and 3000 employees, we are proud of our history of developing great people through our investment in training.

Working across a variety of sectors within the building and infrastructure industry, our innovative, responsible and forward-thinking approach allows us to work on fantastic ground-breaking projects, providing solutions using the latest tools and technologies.

Progression is something we value, and we will make sure that when you join us you have a clearly defined development path, supported by regular reviews, training and ongoing support to enable you to be the best you can be.