Location
United Kingdom

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Murphy is recruiting for a Senior Engineering Manager to work with Energy on the Norfolk Offshore Wind Zone. Our business is well-known for its extensive in-house expertise, experience, and continuous drive to innovate within the industry to create added value for all our customers. We support groundbreaking transmission and distribution projects in four countries, ensuring energy security for decades to come. We offer a wide range of services including design, construction, and commissioning, delivering Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) projects serving both regulated and private customers along with technical and engineering solutions within the conventional power and energy transition markets.

The Senior Engineering Manager holds overall responsibility for the engineering function (engineering, design management, quality assurance and control, document control) both on and off site for the business unit, including day-to-day management of all engineering activities. This role is responsible for implementing the Better Engineered programme driver as part of the 10-year plan and serves as a key point of contact for the function internally and externally.

A day in the life includes implementing and promoting the Better Engineered objective within the business unit, leading engagement with internal and external designers and specialist supply chain partners, forming project delivery strategies regarding design engineering, and ensuring the implementation of Group Design Management Policy and procedural requirements. The role leads the identification of technical risks and ensures mitigation measures are implemented on all projects, aligns key external project asset stakeholders’ technical governance and assurance processes, and drives value engineering and innovation that brings value in time, cost, safety, or carbon, including design standardisation.

The Senior Engineering Manager influences and reviews design solutions within their expertise, ensures operational, SHES and quality input into design development to consider temporary works and methodologies, promotes and leads engineering innovation including GIS/BIM and Digital Field tool solutions for project delivery and handover, and manages continuous performance improvement of the engineering capability and function by establishing and implementing best practice policies and procedures.

This role also takes a proactive role in managing careers and learning & development of all engineering staff, including conducting personal development reviews. It enables the business unit in work winning as the technical leader in bids, supports commercial and procurement teams in accurate scope definition and contractual matters with suppliers and clients, manages recruitment of engineers and design managers to support business requirements, maintains high-quality benchmarks, and promotes best practice in health, safety and environmental matters in conjunction with the SHESQ department.

Experience
Relevant experience in a leadership role within the engineering function of a major UK contractor engaged in one or more of the following: Substations, HV Cable, Transmission, or other heavy civil engineering. Strong technical capability and leadership skills with knowledge of working in BIM. Experience of technical leadership on major infrastructure projects and programmes. Good appreciation and understanding of project management processes gained through successful contract management experience. Knowledge of the professional development process for civil engineers.

About you
Leadership with a drive to continually improve and develop yourself and others. Ability to prioritise objectives and complete work to deadlines. Strong influencing skills with integrity to develop trust and respect. Proactive in managing careers and learning & development of engineering staff.

Qualifications
Not explicitly stated, but a professional development understanding for civil engineers is required. A commitment to continuous professional development and best practice is expected.