Resource Manager Engineering

Northern Powergrid Limited; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 68,000 - 81,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy provider in the United Kingdom is looking for a Resource Manager - Engineering to optimize team performance and deliver operational work. The role involves managing a multi-skilled engineering team and requires strong leadership and communication skills. Candidates must have an HNC in Electrical Engineering or equivalent. Competitive salary and a culture of safety and development offered.

Benefits

Payment of professional fees

Agile working

Career growth opportunities

Team Leader bonus up to 10% annually

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing engineering teams.
• Ability to lead, motivate, and inspire colleagues.
• Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop engineering team to deliver operational work.
• Drive continuous improvement in productivity and resource allocation.
• Ensure timely allocation of skilled engineering resources.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Safety culture development

Coaching and mentoring

Education

HNC in Electrical Engineering or equivalent

Job description

Overview

Resource Manager – Engineering from Northern Powergrid will manage and develop a multi-skilled team of engineering colleagues to deliver the region’s programmes of operational work (planned and unplanned), optimising colleague utilisation, maximising productivity and anticipating future skills demand.

Base pay range: £68,286 - £80,335 (Tech ETL pp 19-24). We offer a competitive package and benefits to shortlisted candidates.

Key Responsibilities

• Embedding a safety culture aligned with positive, proactive and solution driven engagement.
• Driving continuous improvement in regional productivity and optimising team utilisation through effective allocation of resources to work programmes and reactive activity (including major incidents).
• Ensuring timely allocation of appropriately skilled engineering resources to enable delivery of all agreed programmes of work, achieving operational and customer service targets.
• Setting and upholding performance expectations and standards of behaviour; recognising high performance and actively managing under-performance.
• Coaching and developing engineers to maximise capability in line with the competency framework and anticipated skills demand of current and emerging work programmes.
• Anticipating and maintaining an adequate pipeline of appropriately skilled engineers; driving career progression including participants in the workforce renewal programme.
• Creating and empowering a safety culture; ensuring fully resourced and prioritised programmes of work with optimal utilisation of engineers.
• Delivering productivity and safety targets; maintaining a pipeline of engineers upskilled to meet current and future work programme demands.
• Maintaining clear evidence of performance reviews and development plans, using feedback from Programme Managers; calibrating and implementing the technical competency framework for engineering disciplines.
• Maintaining a talent profile of all resources with high growth potential actively managed; collaborating within immediate team and peer groups; coaching and mentoring to maximise performance.
• Leading, motivating and inspiring others; exercising sound judgement and effective decision making; resilience in the face of challenges; excellent written and spoken communication; strong organisational and prioritisation skills.

Essential Qualifications & Experience

• HNC in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
• Full UK driving licence

Desirable Qualifications & Experience

• Management of programmes/projects and colleagues
• Network operations on the LV and HV system
• SAP authorisation on overhead and/or ground mounted systems

Closing date

Closing date for applications: 15 September

Other notes

To comply with our electricity distribution licence, the successful candidate may be subject to a basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check when visiting customers’ premises. Please confirm in your application if you are content for this check to be completed.

Applicants are considered on the basis of suitability for the post irrespective of sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender re-assignment, race, age or disability, in accordance with the Equality Act 2010.