Senior Electrical Contracts Manager

at  Powersystems UK Ltd

A FANTASTIC SENIOR ELECTRICAL CONTRACTS MANAGER OPPORTUNITY TO POWER THE TRANSITION TO A CARBON FREE FUTURE

Powersystems UK is an employee-owned high voltage electrical engineering company. We specialise in electrical power infrastructure, grid connections and renewable energy generation. Due to our continuing success, we have a pipeline of work into 2025 and beyond.

• Are you looking to advance your career with full training provided?
• Do you want to join an established team in an exciting and progressive British business?

SALARY: DEPENDENT ON QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Job type: Full time and Permanent
  This exciting opportunity to join our team has been created because of our continued success and expansion within the marketplace, and in particular the renewable energy industry. We are looking to recruit a senior electrical contracts manager; this role will involve travel within the UK and the willingness to work flexibly out of your standard hours when required.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ROLE INCLUDE:

• Provide leadership and management throughout the project life cycle
• Manage, mentor and support senior project engineers, project engineers and graduate engineers providing advice and guidance from initial concept to completion
• Provide development plans, organise and attending projects team appraisals
• Responsible for communication and interfaces between commercial, estimating, SHEQ, finance and operations departments to suit the need of the business
• Responsibility for ensuring that reports efficiently and effectively manage and deliver across a diverse range of electrical HV projects including liaison with clients, consultants, and their representatives. Review and approve project construction programmes. Attend site project progress, coordination meetings and ensure inspections audits of site works to monitor quality and progress are completed in line with project KPIs and provide support on commercial aspects of projects in line with budgets and forecasting budgets for financial reporting. Assisting with the forecasting of labour requirements, materials and sub-contract spend from outset to completion
• Ensure project compliance with health and safety adherence including strategic planning and management of projects, produce risk assessments and method statements and undertake safety audits
• Attend site project coordination meetings and undertake inspections and audits of site works to monitor quality, progress, managing commercial aspects of the project in line with statutory and customer requirements
• Management of internal and external resource to ensure project goals and customer expectations are met
• Building and maintaining relationships with our clients and supply chain partners
• Manage in-house design and engineering teams to generate equipment layouts, designs, cable schedules, testing, and commissioning procedures
• Liaise with suppliers and manufactures on design, installation, and commissioning. Obtain competitive tenders from the supply chain. Attend manufacturers factory acceptance tests when required
• Attending pre-start and kick off and ongoing client meetings
• Approval on long lead procurement for projects
• Set up and agree a budget for projects
• Ensuring projects resourcing requirements are met to meet contract programmes, with the ability to communicate strategy throughout the organisation
• Attend project review meetings and feedback learnings to project team
• Provide proactive support and guidance to all parties on compliance with statutory requirements and company standards
• Project a professional image to clients and colleagues
• Take responsibility for leading and driving the company values within the project teams
• Support management of sub-contract labour subcontracts in accordance with contract requirements
• Leading tender bids working alongside estimators, directors, and business development managers
• Actively maintaining and reviewing management documentation
• Supporting and developing quality, environmental and health and safety procedures
• Attending and providing insight and input into key decisions including design, construction and lessons learnt

HERES WHAT YOU NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THE ROLE:

• Minimum of 10 years experience of managing and delivering electrical projects
• Experience with managing projects from £1-20 Million in value
• Able to communicate and influence at all levels
• Able to work effectively whilst under pressure
• Able to assess and identify compliance shortfalls or engineering opportunities within designs
• Able to plan and prioritise workload
• Able to follow business processes whilst managing multiple time pressured tasks
• Familiarisation of NEC or FIDIC contracts
• Full UK Driving Licence
• Right to Work within the UK without limitation
• Degree, HND in Electrical Engineering, Project Management, or similar field or equivalent
• Chartership in Electrical Engineering
• Experience in HV systems
• NEBOSH Certificate or Advanced Health and Safety Training
• Experienced in management of large teams
• Open to change, resilient and proactive