EHV Cable Engineering Manager

Posted 29 October 2025
Job type Permanent
ReferenceRS/JB/EHVCM/UK

Job description

EHV Cable Engineering Manager

As an Engineering Manager, you will play a crucial role in ensuring compliance and bolstering our technical credibility with new and existing clients. Your responsibilities will include leading engineering delivery across multiple projects, ensuring timely preparation of quality deliverables within the allocated program and budget. You will play a key part in driving the success of a cohesive cable delivery team by harmonizing various technical disciplines to function as a unified entity.

Typical responsibilities:

  • Manage the engineering process and all deliverables across the full scope of cable projects in accordance with the agreed schedule

  • Ensure the engineering management including delivery updates, change control and risk management

  • Complete checking and approval of deliverables in your areas of technical competence. You will be expected at times complete design activities as needed to meet the schedule

  • Ensuring the constructability and safety by design requirements are met in our deliverables.

  • Provide guidance to the team as needed to help develop others within the team

Expected:

  • Chartered Engineer or equivalent preferred

  • Substantial experience of delivering HV cable design solutions, leading a mixed team including electrical, civil and CAD resources

  • Strong teamworking and organisation abilities with honed communication skills

  • Understanding of key health and safety impacts on HV cable construction contracts

  • Fluent spoken and written English language

  • Ability to work as part of a dispersed and remote team and be able to communicate through collaboration software such as Microsoft teams

  • Must have a right to work in the UK currently

Desirable:

  • Proven experience in working to British and European design standards and codes

  • Experience of providing engineering inputs to cable construction activities including the planning and delivery of the construction

  • Understanding of engineering management including schedule and cost management

  • Experience supporting tendering activities

  • Experience presenting technical outputs and supporting client engagements

You can be based anywhere in the UK but will need to travel to the most local office occasionally.  These are based in Horsham or Glasgow so applicants around the UK are free to apply.