We are seeking an experienced, tenacious Head of Department - Electrical Engineering to join a team of professionals in our rapidly expanding Design Division. This position will ideally suit someone who is very hands on and keen to influence and shape how the department functions.
You will be directly involved with helping to mentor and shape the team alongside having responsibility for the provision of key technical expertise and input at different stages of the life of the projects, for all the projects to ensure the highest technical quality of delivery within the specific discipline.
Duties:
- Assist the Department Head / Director MEP to distribute workload and monitor and control progress against man-hour budgets.
- Review effectiveness, efficiency and competence of the team with the Department Head and have the ability to recommend prositive changes.
- Assist the Department Head in identifying training requirements, and competencies which need to be improved. (This can apply to the whole team, individuals, or a group of individuals).
- Assist the Department Head in identifying the need for new staff, preparing job descriptions/ MRF''s, reviewing CV''s, interviewing and selecting candidates.
- Manage the technical delivery of projects and designs. Manage the Clients'' brief and Client interface, evaluate and set the design guidelines for projects, lead and manage the MEP concept designs and affect execution strategies for projects.
- Manage the technical performance of the team; promote cutting-edge, sustainable, code compliant, value engineered designs.
- At Concept Design (CD) and/or Schematic Design (SD) stage, ensure that appropriate alternative concepts are proposed and that these have been tested and Value Engineered, and that they comply with project and code requirements.
- Monitor departmental project progress, and report to Department Head on actual or anticipated time and/or man-hour over-runs
- Carry out high level design reviews a