Electrical Engineering Manager

Electrical Engineering Manager (Data Centres, Defence & Energy)

Slough, with travel across the M4 corridor

£95,000 – £110,000 + car allowance + benefits

Full-time / Permanent

Our client is a specialist design, construction and engineering contractor delivering complex projects across the data, defence and energy sectors. With over 40 years’ experience, they take projects from site acquisition and architecture through to refurbishment and client occupancy.

They are creating a senior, company-wide electrical role with real authority. You will be the business’s senior operational authority on electrical engineering, responsible for ensuring systems are designed, installed, tested, commissioned and energised safely, compliantly and to the right technical standard.

This is not a paper-based governance role. You can challenge designs, place hold points and stop works where safety or compliance can’t be demonstrated. Significant unresolved risks escalate directly to Director level.

YOUR NEW ROLE

Electrical leadership and governance

Act as the senior authority on electrical engineering across the business

Develop and maintain company-wide electrical standards and safe systems of work

Define competency, appointment, authorisation and supervision requirements

Advise senior management, project teams and clients on technical matters

Ensure compliance with legislation, regulations and industry best practice

Technical and project assurance

Review complex and high-risk designs, specifications and proposed solutions

Provide electrical input across pre-construction, procurement and delivery

Manage electrical risks, technical departures and non-conformances

Oversee DNO, ICP and other external electrical interfaces

Quality, commissioning and compliance

Set minimum QA/QC, inspection, testing and commissioning requirements

Carry out or commission technical audits across projects and the supply chain

Provide assurance of testing, commissioning and energisation

Investigate significant defects, failures and incidents, and make sure lessons are shared

Leadership and capability

Support recruitment, development and technical assessment of electrical personnel

Mentor electrical engineering and project delivery teams

Represent the business in technical discussions with clients, consultants and external bodies

Support business planning around electrical capability, risk and future requirements

Your authority

Challenge electrical designs, submissions and working practices

Require additional evidence, testing or independent verification

Reject non-compliant proposals or installations

Place technical hold points and require corrective action before testing, commissioning or energisation

Pause or stop works where safety, quality or compliance can’t be demonstrated

Project teams retain accountability for delivery. You provide the assurance.

What success looks like

Consistent electrical governance and standards across the business

Safe, controlled testing, commissioning and energisation

Fewer recurring defects and non-conformances

Timely closure of assurance and corrective actions

Stronger electrical capability and competency

A trusted technical voice for senior management and project teams

ABOUT YOU

Essential

Significant senior electrical engineering experience in data centres, defence, energy, critical infrastructure or similarly complex environments

Strong LV and HV experience across design, installation, testing, commissioning and energisation

Proven senior technical leadership, governance and assurance on complex projects

Experience developing or implementing electrical standards, quality and compliance frameworks

Experience managing electrical risk, incidents, defects and non-conformances

Experience leading and influencing teams, contractors and specialist suppliers

Degree, HND or equivalent in Electrical Engineering

Chartered Engineer status, or demonstrable equivalent senior competence

18th Edition IET Wiring Regulations

ECS Black Manager Card (or ability to obtain within an agreed period)

IET membership or equivalent professional body

HV safety / Authorised Person training or equivalent competence

Good understanding of H&S and CDM requirements

Desirable

Assurance experience across multiple concurrent projects

Experience supporting bids, tenders and major project technical strategies

Experience representing an organisation in client or external assurance reviews

Postgraduate, leadership or management qualification

Electrical auditing, incident investigation, SMSTS or Temporary Works awareness

SALARY AND BENEFITS

£95,000 – £110,000 per annum

Car allowance

Competitive pension scheme

Electric vehicle scheme

BUPA healthcare and cash plan

Eyecare vouchers

Cycle to work scheme

25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, plus your birthday off

Reference Number: 1FEM