Description
Location: Birmingham, UK - Remote - Need to visit office for Meetings
Duration: 6 Months Contract with a possibility of extension
Job Role:
- To coordinate the design team across all disciplines.
- To liaise with project management on engineering budgets and to provide forecast cost to complete estimates and associated justification to changes in expenditure.
- To manage the programme and to interface with the planning engineers for design.
- Providing forecasts for completion and resource planning.
- To approve documentation in accordance with the contractual requirements of the project.
- To coordinate and chair design reviews and hazard reviews.
- To identify and manage additional risks across functions that may not be apparent to individual Designers. Evaluates risks and opportunities, strategizes mitigation of the risks.
- Supports the Project Manager in overall project risk and opportunity assessments and implementation of resulting actions.
- To undertake the Principal Designer Representative on projects.
- Works with customers to shape and deliver solutions, seeking feedback and innovating with the customer to drive and deliver improvements.
- Oversees the creation of subcontracts and manages the subcontractors jointly with other involved functions, including supply chain management.
Essential:
- 5 years Electricity supply industry experience
- Knowledge of Transmission or Distribution practices (400kV to 11 kV)
- HNC/HND in electrical engineering or equivalent
- Good teamwork, analytical, and communication skills
- Capable of working to tight time scales
- Commercial acumen