Power Design Performance & Innovation Lead

OCU; Ruislip; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

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Job summary

OCU is seeking a Design Performance and Innovation Manager to shape how our design function operates across a portfolio of power infrastructure projects in the UK. You will drive efficiency, quality, and consistency through smarter ways of working and new technologies.

The role focuses on process improvement, standardising design outputs, and embedding data-driven enhancements, collaborating with design, delivery, and digital teams to achieve better project outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience in power, utilities, energy, or infrastructure design environments.
• Strong understanding of engineering design processes and project delivery constraints.
• Experience delivering process improvement, transformation, or operational excellence initiatives.
• Ability to engage confidently with engineers, project teams, and senior stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate challenges into practical solutions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead improvement initiatives that enhance design performance, reduce rework, and improve project delivery outcomes.
• Analyse design workflows to identify inefficiencies and implement practical solutions that improve productivity and quality.
• Drive the standardisation of design processes, templates, documentation, and technical outputs.
• Evaluate and implement digital tools, automation solutions, and emerging technologies that add measurable value.
• Collaborate with engineering, project delivery, and digital teams to improve design systems and data management processes.
• Influence stakeholders across the business to embed new ways of working and support successful change adoption.
• Monitor performance metrics and use data-driven insights to support continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ensure all improvement activities align with client requirements, regulatory obligations, and operational delivery needs.

Skills

Design excellence

Process improvement

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Project delivery

Engineering communication

Tools

CAD

BIM

Common Data Environments

Design management systems

Job description

OCU is seeking a Design Performance and Innovation Manager to shape how our design function operates across a portfolio of power infrastructure projects in the UK. You will drive efficiency, quality, and consistency through smarter ways of working and new technologies.

The role focuses on process improvement, standardising design outputs, and embedding data-driven enhancements, collaborating with design, delivery, and digital teams to achieve better project outcomes.