Lead Engineer - Infrastructure in Royal Leamington Spa

The Lead Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for technical leadership, guidance, and management of the infrastructure engineering team. This includes developing and implementing new design processes and documentation, leading customer requirement workshops, reviewing and approving designs and BoMs, and ensuring alignment with industry best practices. Providing training and mentoring to junior members of the team.

Key Deliverables

• Will lead and motivate the team to create ideas for new infrastructure products or services and drawing up plans for a new design and deliver products and/or services.
• Will set the priorities for the team to ensure task or project completion; coordinates work activities with other supervisors across work streams or projects.
• Oversee the realisation of infrastructure ideas from the initial design stage through to the production, test and/or installation process.
• Ensure the drawing up of detailed technical plans for ideas and concepts.
• Use mathematical and scientific skills to create workable, real-world solutions to problems.
• Provide leadership and direction on the appropriate materials for a new product or a new construction or system.
• Ensure the supply of an accurate cost analysis forecast for a project.
• Ensure completion of the required technical and regulatory documents.
• Provide technical oversight and direction on quality-control tests on a new product/system and oversee its construction/manufacture, development and deployment.
• Typically does not spend more than 20% of time performing the work supervised.

Responsibilities

• Maintains in-depth knowledge of own professional engineering discipline, with basic knowledge of related professional engineering disciplines.
• Ensures the team makes decisions and problem-solving are guided by policies, procedures and business plan; receives guidance and oversight from the Engineering Manager.
• Arranging testing of products, systems, software or infrastructure.
• Ensuring projects are completed on-time with the specified budget.
• Maintaining and developing their personal engineering skills and people management skills.
• Ensures the team members have regular reviews of performance and learning and development needs.
• Solves problems through the skills and capability of the team.
• May provide technical direction for functional teams and will lead projects.
• Contributes discipline/sector technical expertise to Bid and commercial teams.
• Acts as a mentor for colleagues with less experience.
• The role holder ensures they and the team comply with prevailing QEHS requirements associated with the discipline/business sector.
• The role holder ensures they and the team comply with prevailing Telent values, behaviour and competency requirements.

Skill Requirements

• VMware, Hyper-V, DNS, Active Directory, etc.
• Holds the relevant specified/designated licences/certifications.
• Computer literate, competent with MS Office suite, Word, Excel, etc.
• Fully competent knowledge of the quality standards and processes and regulatory requirements applicable to the designated discipline/business area.
• Competent in people management.
• Competent all-round verbal and written communication skills.
• Customer focused and able to deal with internal and external stakeholders.
• A passion for solving problems and providing workable solutions.
• Strong analytical and reasoning skills with an ability to visualise processes and outcomes.
• Commercially aware.

Benefits

• 26 days annual leave, plus public holidays, plus the option to buy up to 10 days or sell six days each year.
• Company car allowance.
• Company pension scheme.
• A range of family-friendly policies.
• Occupational health support and wellbeing portal.
• Discounts on cinema, restaurants and shopping with Telent Reward scheme.