Industry Credible Leader CGEMJP00362939

Role Title: Industry Credible Leader

Duration: contract to run until 26/02/2027

Location: London / Warwick. Ideally 3 to 5 days per week, with flexibility around critical bid and client sessions

Rate: TBC Umbrella inside IR35

Role purpose / summary

Essential experience

Candidates should ideally have 20+ years' experience in electricity transmission / major electricity infrastructure, including significant leadership responsibility.

They should have:

• Direct client experience strongly preferred, ideally NGET, Strategic Infrastructure or a closely associated organisation.
• Held a senior engineering position such as Engineering Director, Head of Engineering, Chief Engineer, Technical Director or Programme Engineering Director.
• Personally led engineering delivery on major transmission or grid infrastructure programmes.
• Deep understanding of 400kV / 275kV transmission infrastructure and the transmission investment lifecycle.
• Experience working across design, assurance and delivery, rather than purely strategy or consultancy.
• Strong understanding of how engineering interfaces with construction, commissioning, asset management and operations.
• Experience working with major engineering partners, EPC organisations, OEMs and the transmission supply chain.
• Experience dealing with engineering risk, assurance and technical governance.
• Strong executive communication skills.

Highly desirable

Experience in several of the following would be highly desirable:

• Great Grid Upgrade / major NGET capital programmes.
• Strategic Infrastructure programmes.
• Substations and transmission systems.
• Protection and control.
• Power-system modelling and network studies.
• Digital substations.
• Electricity network asset management.
• FEED and optioneering.
• Engineering Authority / delegated design authority.
• RIIO / Ofgem environment.
• Engineering outsourcing and global engineering centres.
• Engineering capability transformation.

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!

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