Engineering Manager – Substations
Location: Trilogy Office, Motherwell
Business Unit: Energy
Morgan Sindall is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager with Substations experience to support our growing Energy portfolio. Based at our Trilogy office in Motherwell, supporting our Energy business unit, with a particular focus on the CMN3 and Harburn projects. This role will provide engineering leadership across substation design and delivery, supporting projects from bid stage through to successful completion.
Role Overview
The Engineering Manager (Substations) will take ownership of managing engineering resources and assurance for substation projects, ensuring compliance, safety, programme certainty and highquality technical outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead substation engineering activities at precontract and delivery stages
- Manage and coordinate internal and external engineering and design resources
- Provide technical leadership and governance for substation engineering solutions
- Act as a senior technical interface with clients, consultants and supply chain partners
- Ensure robust implementation of health, safety, environmental and quality requirements
- Ensure full compliance with CDM Regulations, industry standards and client specifications and full understanding of Client, Principal Contractor and Principal Designer roles and responsibilities.
- Support bid teams through technical input, tender reviews, interviews and client presentations
- Support bid managers to deliver highquality, competitive submissions
- Manage engineering input into contract mobilisation, including engineering assurance plans
- Support joint ventures and collaborative working arrangements
- Drive innovation, standardisation and continuous improvement across substation projects
- Carry out audits and compliance reviews, producing reports as required
- Manage engineering administration and ensure training, competency and compliance records are maintained
- Share best practice and lessons learned across the wider Energy and Infrastructure business
Qualifications & Experience
- Degree qualified (or equivalent) in Electrical Engineering, Power Engineering or related discipline
- Chartered Engineer or working towards chartership
- Significant experience delivering substation engineering and construction, ideally within energy transmission or distribution
- Seniorlevel involvement in major project tenders and complex delivery environments
- Strong understanding of commercial, contractual and procurement frameworks
- Experience managing assurance regimes and engineering governance
- Experience operating within joint ventures, alliances or multipartner projects
- Experience working with ViewPoint and Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC)
Skills & Attributes
- Strong leadership and influencing skills
- Ability to manage multiple engineering interfaces without compromising safety or quality
- Excellent organisational, planning and timemanagement capability
- Strong technical judgement and problemsolving mindset
- Confident working with senior stakeholders, clients and regulators