Job Description

Project Engineering Manager (Inside IR35 Contract)

The Project Engineering Manager is responsible for overseeing all engineering activities related to the project, or a specific work package in the case of large and complex projects, while ensuring adherence to quality, cost, and delivery time criteria. This role is an inside IR35 contract, requiring 2 days a week in Stafford.

They are tasked with planning overall design activities, managing the project design budget, implementing design changes, supervising and coordinating all necessary engineering tasks (whether performed in-house or by suppliers/subcontractors), and ensuring technical coordination of the Grid Solutions project.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Issue and consolidate the provisional drawing list for the project or specific work package, integrating submission dates.

Manage the global schedule for engineering activities, ensuring coherence between engineering tasks and other project functions (procurement, construction, commissioning), and organise follow-up on critical activities.

Plan and manage the delivery timeline for technical interfaces within your work package, establish exchange interface sheets with partners, customers, and third-party contractors.

Ensure timely delivery of design outputs to stakeholders with appropriate quality, including partner documentation.

Support PED and the Project I&I Manager in engineering change management for large and complex projects.

Lead and coordinate design teams.

Monitor the engineering budget, identify potential savings, and highlight to the Project Manager any justified situations requiring additional budget.

Participate in and contribute to multidisciplinary design reviews according to EMH procedures and project strategy.

Manage scope or design changes and prepare related claims and VO for approval by PED or PM.

Analyse customer technical requirements, prepare or consolidate clause-by-clause analysis, ensure compliance with customer requirements through technical queries, and manage potential exceptions.

Represent customer interests in design decisions at the request of the Project Manager.

Validate designs throughout customer acceptance.

Ensure the management of project documentation status (internal or external) for your work package, including approvals, comments, re-submissions, and rejections.

Prepare or review technical specifications and supplier documents to enable the procurement of materials and detailed plant design.

Evaluate the effectiveness of the design against contract requirements within the project budget, seeking global cost optimisation throughout all design phases, particularly during the basic design phase.Required Qualifications:

Engineering degree or equivalent education.

Experience in leading engineering activities within an EPC-type environment.

Proven experience in project technical management within a multidisciplinary team context, including multiple interfaces and products sourced from several countries.Desired Characteristics:

Essential knowledge of the Transmission or Distribution industry.

Beneficial knowledge of Renewable Energy systems.

Beneficial knowledge of GIS and AIS systems.Please click to find out more about our Key Information Documents. Please note that the documents provided contain generic information. If we are successful in finding you an assignment, you will receive a Key Information Document which will be specific to the vendor set-up you have chosen and your placement.

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