Engineering Manager

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Job Description Job Title : Engineering Manager Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom Join Us!! The Engineering Manager is responsible for leading the multidisciplinary engineering team supporting EPC HV substation projects across Scotland. The role covers tendering, project engineering, resource coordination, and management of engineering interfaces throughout the project lifecycle. The Engineering Manager provides technical leadership for the delivery of primary, secondary, and civil/structural designs, ensuring compliance with customer specifications, statutory requirements, industry standards, and Linxon procedures. What will you do? Key Areas of Responsibility (KARs) : Report and work in close coordination with the UK Engineering Manager for all the engineering activities allocated to his team of resources. Accountable for the timely and quality delivery of engineering designs for all EPC substation projects allocated to his engineering organization. Provide overall technical leadership, management, and development of a local engineering team covering Primary, Secondary, and Civil/Structural disciplines for large and complex EPC HV AIS and GIS substation projects. Plan and coordinate all engineering activities from tendering through to As-Built completion, ensuring full compliance with Project Specifications, Linxon standards, QA/QC requirements, HSSE expectations, and Integrity principles. Regularly monitor project performance in collaboration with Project Management, Procurement, Construction, Commissioning, and Planning teams to ensure engineering priorities remain aligned with project schedules, milestones, and deliverables. Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams within Linxon (local and remote), as well as external partners, suppliers, subcontractors, and engineering consultants. Provide technical guidance to engineers allocated to projects in case of technical discussions with customers and suppliers. Define and manage engineering resource plans and budgets based on current project commitments and future business pipeline requirements. Set individual and team objectives, mentor engineers, and support technical skill development within the discipline groups. Experience Required: Bachelor or Master’s in electrical engineering or equivalent. Extensive experience in HV substation engineering within EPC environment. Proven track record in leading and managing engineering resources for large-scale EPC projects. Strong knowledge of AIS and GIS substation design, engineering delivery processes. Demonstrated experience managing multidisciplinary engineering teams and stakeholder interfaces in complex project environments. Competencies/ Skills Required: Result orientated team player with a proactive approach. Excellent in communication, to interact with external and internal parties at all levels in a multi-cultural environment. Expert knowledge in Substation design and engineering: primary and secondary design, interface with civil discipline. Knowledge of system studies like load flow, short circuit calculation; Single Line Diagrams, CT/VT calculations, Auxiliary Power Systems, power cables. Strong in MS Office, knowledge in MicroStation and AutoCAD is required. Fluency in English – both written and spoken. Availability to travel 25 % of the time (domestic/international travel). Working in an office, presence on a construction site when required. About Linxon Shaping energy solutions to empower sustainable connectivity. We combine Hitachi Energy’s deep technological knowledge and Atkins Realis’s project management expertise to create a company dedicated to substations – we are Linxon. Linxon’s vision is to deliver the best market offering for turnkey substation projects through world-class power technologies and delivering the highest level of competence in managing infrastructure projects. As a leading engineering company, we help our customers with turnkey substation solutions in the field of power transmission, renewable energy and transportation. In this role, you will have the opportunity to be part of a new company as it evolves and help shape it for the future. If you like new challenges, have an entrepreneurial spirit and are interested in working with other motivated professionals with expertise in the Substations EPC business, then this is the new opportunity for you. To know more about the Linxon please click on the link below. Building the infrastructure to power the world - we are Linxon! - YouTube Worker Type Employee Job Type Regular At Linxon, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.