Senior Operational Communications Engineer - Hybrid Glasgow

Harvey Nash Group; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 74,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Outside IR35

Job summary

Harvey Nash Group is seeking a Senior Operational Communications Engineer for a 6-month contract in Glasgow, working hybrid across 2–3 days per week. The role focuses on leading, maintaining, and developing operational communications systems in line with ITIL practices.

The candidate will oversee incidents, changes, problems, and capacity management, providing technical leadership and mentoring to engineers, with line management duties and involvement in DR/BC, procurement, and documentation.

Qualifications

• HND in Digital Technology or Electronic Engineering, or related discipline.
• Experience supporting operational communications technologies and control systems.
• Willingness to learn new technologies and lead junior engineers.
• Experience providing technical leadership and coaching to colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Lead support, monitoring, maintenance, and development of operational comms systems using ITIL.
• Manage incidents, changes, problems, and capacity for comms infrastructure.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineers.
• Oversee line management, workload, and staff development.
• Lead documentation, disaster recovery, business continuity, innovation, and procurement activities.
• Deliver third-line support for critical systems (Control Room, Airwave, TETRA, etc.).

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Incident management

Education

HND in Digital Technology or Electronic Engineering

Degree-level qualification

ITIL v4 Foundation

Tools

Airwave

TAIRE?

Job description

Harvey Nash Group is seeking a Senior Operational Communications Engineer for a 6-month contract in Glasgow, working hybrid across 2–3 days per week. The role focuses on leading, maintaining, and developing operational communications systems in line with ITIL practices.

The candidate will oversee incidents, changes, problems, and capacity management, providing technical leadership and mentoring to engineers, with line management duties and involvement in DR/BC, procurement, and documentation.