Detail Design Technical Lead

12 Month contract (Inside IR35)

£45.76 per hour umbrella

Hybrid Working (1 – 2 days per week on site)

Job Role:

• This position holder will have proven technical capability and demonstrate exemplar behaviours as a role model within the team.
• Fully conversant with all Detail Design processes and Design Management Systems (LCM or process) and can advise and guide team members through application of them.
• Works as part of a team with a high degree of technical autonomy, within established procedures and practices and will demonstrate technical leadership as Detail Design representative embedded within the Programme, using influencing and negotiation skills where required.
• Demonstrates technical leadership in performing a variety of the most complex tasks that require specialised field of knowledge and will use their judgement and experience to solve problems based on practice and precedent.
• Provides specialist technical advice and guidance to other professionals, technical staff and/or customers.
• On occasion may be required to assist Team Lead in the co-ordination of team members on a variety of typically routine tasks (but will not have direct reports).

Key Responsibilities:

• Applying technical leadership and expertise to provide advice and guidance to other professionals within project/team.
• Using the programme delivery plan, work with the Team Lead using technical expertise to prioritise team activities, ensuring schedule and cost effective working is delivered alongside quality expectations.
• Act as a project focal point for discipline specific tasks, championing continuous improvement, ensuring best practices are adopted, and ensuring overall compliance to the discipline strategy.
• Deploying high expertise in engineering toolsets including CAD and information management tools to deliver complex design activities through to completion.
• Use knowledge and experience of the discipline to make technical decisions and facilitate problem-solving guided by policies, procedures and business plan.
• Apply knowledge and experience of the design lifecycle, processes and systems of work and the value stream within the discipline.
• Able to effectively escalate where appropriate complex design issues and advise Detail Design Management on proposed technical resolutions where there is an impact to predicted programme delivery plan.
• Check, assurance and sign off of engineering deliverables and outputs against standards, rules and regulatory requirements.
• Work within mandated design constraints such as design rules and acceptance requirements and manage non-adherence through the correct process.
• Advise Line Manager and Technical Specialist of capability gaps and development needs of team so they can be addressed using training and development plans.
• May act as an informal or indirect leadership resource, supporting activities such as skills coaching, mentoring and contributing to management reporting.
• Role Model for Safety, Health, Environmental and Quality (SHEQ) and associated activities.
• Contribute to technical governance in line with Quality Management process through the checking of all engineering outputs (Including BOM), this may include delegation of associated tasks.
• Advise Detail Design Technical Specialist and Engineering Management team on process improvements and LFE.
• Assisting the customer through the approval process as compartment or system owners for spatial design.

Key Attributes:

• Considerable experience in engineering or technical role
• Experience of large scale engineering projects
• Self-awareness and consequential impact on others
• Requires a breadth and depth of specialist technical knowledge and a broad experience of processes, data systems and the business environment
• Competent in processes, procedures and standards related to area of technical expertise.
• Ability to communicate & exchange ideas effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Collaborates with others to achieve goals & objectives.
• Demonstrates influencing and negotiation skills where required.
• Demonstrates customer focus, demonstrates diplomacy and tactfulness in customer communications.
• Ability to interpret and communicate technical instructions.
• Applies judgement to the selection of appropriate solution to problems, based on own knowledge and experience of similar situations and within the limits of documentation and governing processes.
• Uses escalation procedures for emergent issues.
• Requires completion of vocational training (Apprenticeship, Vocational Qualifications) or the equivalent experience.
• Would be desirable if post holder has EngTech status or working towards IEng or CEng status (UK).