Manager of Engineering & Design

Manager of Engineering & Design

Location : Birchwood

Bilfinger UK is a leading engineering and maintenance provider, supporting customers across the chemical & petrochemical, nuclear, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals & biopharma, power & energy, utilities, renewables and food & beverage markets.

We enhance the efficiency of assets, ensuring a high level of availability and reducing maintenance costs.

The Role

The Manager of Engineering & Design is a member of the Engineering Management Team and is responsible for the overall technical management and leadership of all the Engineering disciplines and will report directly in to the Engineering Driector.

Main Responsibilities

• You shall manage an overall team inclusive of all Engineering disciplines, Process, Electrical Control and Instrumentation, Mechanical, Piping and Civil, Structural.
• You shall have between 10 and 20 direct reports including discipline engineering managers, your total team size shall include up to indirect reports
• You shall be responsible for all line management activities of your direct reports, inclusive of utilisation, holidays, expenses, performance reviews and time writing
• You shall be accountable for all recruitment and resourcing supporting the discipline engineering managers where applicable
• You shall be the main technical focal point for Engineering and ensure that the team have the support and advice they need to perform to the highest standards to deliver the business and project performance targets.
• Provide regular feedback to the team to support their development
• Support the Engineering Director with the development and implementation of the Engineering business strategy.
• You shall be responsible for reviewing, updating and implementing all the procedures, standards, guidance notes and forms for Engineering
• You are responsible for appointing and managing capable discipline checker and approvers

Key Requirements

• You shall have a strong understanding of all the Engineering disciplines and how they function
• You have previously lead or managed a team of minimum 10 Engineers and Designers
• The Manager of Engineering is accountable for all resourcing of engineering projects.
• Projects can be stand-alone engineering projects, or be the engineering scope of a Bilfinger EPCM / EPC project, and be for different sectors (Oil & Gas, Nuclear, Energy, Utilities, Chemicals, Food), small and large projects, and greenfield and brownfield.
• You shall be able to be client facing and build / maintain strong client relationships to support Engineering growth
• The role requires travel to various clients, sites and businesses for the support of sales, projects, growth and collaboration
• You shall be able to lead and deliver engineering estimating and proposals inclusive of assumptions and exclusions

Experience & Qualifications

If you have the following profile, then we are looking forward to meeting you

• Preferred :
• Chartered or Incorporated Engineer
• Industrial background inclusive of apprenticeship, operations and construction
• Qualifications and training as a CDM principal designer

If you wish to speak to a member of the recruitment team, please contact .

Engineering & Consultancy Bilfinger UK Limited Permanent White-collar workers Professional Engineering - General