We are looking for an energetic, enthusiastic and people focused Electrically biased Senior Electrical Technical Manager to join Laing O'Rourke's UK MEICA team.

This Senior Electrical Technical Manager will be part of the MEICA Systems Engineering & Assurance Team, which is there to ensure technical excellence, assurance and performance across all our projects in the UK.

The role will involve working for our Chief Electrical Engineer and will require travelling to projects on a regular basis.

What will the role look like?

• Work collaboratively and professionally with the MEICA System Engineering and Assurance Team.
• Establish, refresh and maintain new and existing company ‘Standard Equipment and Minimum Requirements Specifications', to ensure our contractual and statutory requirements are met, and to eliminate all wasteful activities e.g. rectification of defective works.
• Liaise with the company's procurement clusters leads and the company's preferred and approved supply chain to ensure the ‘Standard Equipment and Minimum Requirements Specifications' are robust but not restrictive to trading.
• Establish, refresh and maintain new and existing company ‘Inspection and Testing Procedures' (ITPs).
• Support the Chief Electrical Engineer in conducting technical audits/peer reviews on projects to ensure technical compliance with our contractual and statutory requirements.
• Support the Chief Electrical Engineer with technical enquiries and interventions on projects.
• Ensure technical lessons learnt are captured and shared with other projects to drive consistency by authoring Technical Guidance Notes or Technical Bulletins.
• Work with the company's training department in providing relevant and applicable Continuing Professional Development (CPD) training to develop staff.
• Support development of industry standards and guidance by involvement in technical committees, working groups etc.
• Support project teams with technical issues that may arise during bid, pre-construction and construction stages.
• Support the business units as they transition to Infrastructure type projects involving upskilling staff and development of supply chain and our ‘Standard Equipment and Minimum Requirements Specifications'
• Role will involve periodically visiting projects around the UK.
• Role either to be based in Dartford or Sale, Manchester.

What skills & experience are we looking for?

• Experience in MEICA design – from concept to completion.
• Degree in Electrical Engineering / other appropriate construction related qualification.
• A deep and broad experience managing the design of construction or building services projects.

Don't match all the criteria? We are open and always happy to hear from people with transferable skill sets and a commitment to learning.

About us:
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com

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