Overview

Job Title: Lead Engineer
Job Location: Birmingham (Hybrid)
Contract Length: until 31st Jan 2026 / 6 months
Industry: Energy
Working Hours: 8 per day / 40 per week

What you will do

• 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.
• Must offer a flexible approach to work tasks, will be prepared to work additional hours as the project may require ensuring delivery of successful design solutions.
• A full team player with ability to work within a multi-national, multi-cultural team.
• To mentor other team members as required
• Will be focused on value engineering, ensuring full consultation with all design stakeholders
• Strive for continuous improvement in implementation standards and costs
• Enact the legislative duties of a designer and develop designs which eliminate and reduce risks to health, safety and the environment
• To hold and participate in design and hazard reviews and Meetings with Suppliers, Contractors and Clients.
• To strengthen customer relationships through presentation and delivery of successful design solutions.

What you will have

• Line Managers for resourcing, domain knowledge, training and issues/conflict resolution
• Other Engineering functions, primary, civils, commissioning, engineering support and design team leaders
• Commissioning and Test Engineers.
• Customers and Assurance for design review
• Suppliers for technical review
• Wider project teams incl. Project Managers, Planning, Tendering and Supply Chain

Challenges

• Customer satisfaction
• Working to defined budgetary objectives
• Achieving successful design solutions and implementing them to the full satisfaction of all stakeholders

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• NG LCDAE experience is required.
• 5 years Electricity supply industry experience
• Knowledge of Transmission or Distribution practices (400kV to 11 kV)
• HNC/HND in electrical engineering or equivalent
• Good team work, Analytical and communication skills
• Capable of working to tight time scales
• Commercial acumen