Engineering Manager – HV Substations (EPC)

Role overview

Team leadership

• Manage, coordinate, and develop engineering teams covering primary, secondary, BIM/3D, and civil/structural disciplines.
• Allocate resources and workload based on project phases, milestones, and priorities.
• Set team objectives, mentor engineers, and support technical skill development.
• Arbitrate priorities and resources across projects when managing multiple projects.
• Act as the primary contact for the Principal Design Engineer in the UK.
• Attend weekly internal design reviews and monthly project plan reviews.

Engineering delivery

• Own the quality, consistency, and interdisciplinary coordination of engineering deliverables.
• Ensure outputs comply with codes, standards, client specifications, and internal engineering standards.
• Resolve technical conflicts and ensure design-freeze milestones are achieved.
• Review and approve key technical documents and design packages before issue.

Vendors and stakeholders

• Act as the senior technical contact for equipment vendors and subcontractors.
• Support technical clarifications, bid evaluations, factory acceptance tests, and supplier design reviews.
• Ensure vendor drawings, datasheets, and calculations are reviewed and approved to schedule.
• Coordinate with project management, procurement, construction, commissioning, and QA/QC.
• Represent engineering in project reviews, steering committees, and client-facing technical discussions.
• Communicate risks, constraints, and schedule impacts to project leadership and stakeholders.

Experience and education

• Hold a bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical engineering.
• Have at least 18 years of experience in the HV EPC substation business.
• Bring experience with AIS/GIS substations, HV equipment, and protection and control systems.
• Have managed or led multidisciplinary engineering teams across relevant disciplines.
• Have managed engineering scope on single-project or multi-project EPC substation programmes.
• Have interfaced directly with vendors and subcontractors on technical matters.
• Have worked in structured project engineering environments with project, procurement, and construction functions.
• Possess strong technical grounding across HV substation engineering disciplines.