25-052 Engineering Manager

NSG Environmental Ltd; Brentford; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

NSG Environmental Ltd seeks an Engineering Manager to oversee their Defence projects, ensuring quality and innovation in engineering deliverables. The ideal candidate will possess a degree in engineering, valuable industry experience, and a commitment to developing engineering talent within a collaborative team environment. Attractive benefits include training budgets and generous holiday entitlements.

Benefits

Life Assurance

Stakeholder pension

Health Care Policy

Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Pay

Qualifications

• Degree level or equivalent in engineering required.
• Experience applying engineering theory in a regulated industry essential.
• Knowledge of the UK Nuclear Industry and radiological protection principles desirable.

Responsibilities

• Support technical delivery of projects and provide leadership.
• Ensure quality of engineering deliverables meets requirements.
• Manage and develop engineers at various seniority levels.

Skills

MS Office

Attention to detail

Presentation skills

Communication

Education

Degree in Engineering

Job description

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JOB TITLE - Engineering Manager

LOCATION - Calleva Park/Hybrid

DEPARTMENT - Engineering

HOURS - 9 Day Fortnight

SECURITY CLEARANCE - DV

Working for NSG

NSG Environmental Ltd has been delivering work programmes in the nuclear industry for over 40 years. Traditionally in the areas of decommissioning and waste management, NSG now has a broad customer base and provides a wide spectrum of services across the nuclear project lifecycle, ranging from expert consultancy support, R&D and engineering design to rekit and refurbishment, site installation services and high-hazard physical decommissioning works, amongst others. This work is delivered at NSG's own offices and purpose-built facilities and nuclear sites across the UK. The delivery and management of these projects and programmes of work is carried out by a skilled workforce composed of both white-collar and blue-collar personnel in technical, administrative, and physical roles.

Our core values of Passion, Integrity, Challenge and Collaboration drive performance and ensure we add significant value. If joining us as a member of staff, we will support your professional development in an exciting and challenging work environment that will enable you to use, develop and hone your technical expertise in a supportive and collaborative working environment.

The Role

The position of Engineering Manager (Defence) will provide technical, task and people management expertise in support of NSG's portfolio of work for our clients operating in the Defence sector.

Key Objectives

Technical Management

• Support the technical delivery of multi-disciplinary projects through collaborative working and providing leadership, organisation, and direction towards the development of engineering deliverables.
• Ensure the quality of engineering deliverables meets appropriate Company, Client and legislative requirements, as well as Relevant Good Practise (RGP)
• Provide direct and embedded engineering management to Client projects.
• Review and approve engineering deliverables.
• Driving innovation into technical solutions
• Working with cross-functional teams to control project scope
• Maintain and promote awareness of Engineering best practice and wider engineering issues.

Functional Management

• Identify skills and resource gaps and work towards addressing them.
• Ensure that projects are adequately resourced with SQEP personnel.
• Contribute to present and future resourcing strategies, including apprentices and graduates.

People Management

• Support the development of engineers at all levels of seniority.
• Provide direct line management to one or more engineers.
• Ensure that the demonstrable competence (SQEP) of the engineering team is documented and maintained across all disciplines.
• Work with the engineering and people development teams to plan and deliver NSG's Graduate Engineering Programme on an ongoing basis.
• Provide mentorship for early careers engineers across the business.
• Collaborate with the Engineering Senior Leadership Team to manage remuneration, discipline, and team engagement/morale.

Additional Tasks

Carry out any task as deemed reasonable by a Director or NLT member in the interest of the company.

• Financial signatory levels and responsibilities are defined in the Corporate Governance Document.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent in engineering supported by practical experience or equivalent - Essential
• Membership of appropriate technical / professional body - Desirable

Experience & Knowledge

• Experience of applying engineering theory to solve engineering problems in a highly regulated industry - Essential
• Experience of system design and specification including interface design and specification. - Essential
• Understanding of the UK Nuclear Industry - Essential
• Understanding of radiological protection principles - Desirable
• Knowledge of IR35 legislation - Desirable
• Used to dealing with confidential and commercial information - Desirable
• Familiar with QSHEW operating procedures and requirements etc. - Desirable

Skills & Abilities

• Competent user of MS Office - Essential
• Well organised with the ability to work to timescales and demonstrate attention to detail. - Essential
• Ability to grasp new and abstract concepts and ideas quickly - Essential
• Ability to prepare and present reports, documentation and information in support of project delivery - Essential
• Ability to interpret and evaluate technical data - Essential
• The ability to deliver technical & management presentations as a way of sharing ideas and influencing colleagues. - Essential
• Ability to communicate with a wide range of colleagues at all levels and with external stakeholders and contractors - Essential
• Awareness of ISO 9001 / 14001 & 45001 - Essential

Staff Benefits

Overtime Payments - No overtime applicable for this role

Holiday Entitlement - 187.5 hours per calendar year, plus statutory holidays, increase for Long Service: 10, 15, 20 years

Life Assurance - Equivalent to 3 x Annual Salary

Stakeholder pension - Max 5% employer contributions, min 4% employee contribution

Health Care Policy - Westfield Health Policy funded by the company covering a wide variety of services

Sickness Benefit - Between 7 and 60 months of service, sick pay can be given for up to 20 weeks

Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Pay - Details can be given

Discretionary Bonus / Cost of Living Payment - Bonuses reviewed on company performance annually, Cost of Living increase reviewed in line with inflation annually

Learning & Development - Training and development budget available to support in role development