Engineering Manager - DV

Job Title: Engineering Manager - DV
Location: Aldermaston, Reading (100% on site)
Contract Duration: 18 Months
Daily Rate: £63.57/hr (Umbrella)
IR35 Status: Inside IR35
Security Clearance: DV clearance & Sole Uk National

Essential:

• Sole UK National
• Location – able to commit to 100% onsite attendance
• Stakeholder management
• Significant experience delivering engineering or infrastructure programmes in highly regulated environments, ensuring compliance with stringent safety, security, and quality requirements.
• Proven capability in leading and contributing to technical design reviews, ensuring engineering solutions are robust, compliant, and aligned with established governance frameworks.
• Solid understanding of regulatory frameworks and assurance processes, with the ability to ensure engineering outputs meet organisational and industry standards.

Desirable:

• Background in construction, utilities, or major build programmes, particularly where engineering governance, configuration management, and design assurance are central to programme success.
• Experience within the nuclear, defence, or other high hazard sectors, bringing familiarity with nuclear safety principles, security protocols, and regulatory expectations.
• Civil Engineering qualification

Engineering Manager

To lead and manage a technical team; providing effective leadership as the main contact point for all team members and/or other team leaders. To maintain a technical capability that delivers critical skills and resources aligned to current and future business requirements in order to deliver the integrated technical programme.

Key Accountabilities:

• Accountable for leading, coaching and developing a team at a local level to deliver team and personal objectives safely and securely to meet our operational plans, including mentoring and career development of staff.
• Assessing staff performance, measured against agreed personal objectives and accountabilities, and taking corrective action to improve performance where necessary via appropriate management interventions.

• Provide knowledge and technical expertise in the field of technical specialism.
• Maintain and promote high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality.
• Deploy appropriate resources where they need to be allocated to deliver engineering solutions, across multiple disciplines and projects.
• Accountable for ensuring that engineering resources are competent, capable, appropriately assessed and that evidence exists in line with company processes.
• Engage and inspire colleagues, promoting a diverse & inclusive environment that encourages them to seek opportunities for continuous improvement and personal development.
• Additional accountabilities for this job profile may be defined and appointed through the Chief Engineer Management Arrangements, with appointees contained within the Company Design Authorities and Technical Authorities listing, as held in the company management system.
• Ensure compliance with Licence/Authorisation Conditions, Legislation and Regulations.

Key Responsibilities:  

• To deliver the programme and mobilise resources in a safe, secure and efficient manner.
• Responsible for ensuring that the team produce high quality work, that has been subjected to the correct governance processes as applicable.
• Ensuring that the work undertaken by the team and/or teams is consistent with strategy, policies, processes, procedures, and quality standards.
• Effective stakeholder management, engaging others in order to have a positive impact on decisions and programme delivery.
• Responsible for ensuring that the team maintain accurate configuration of engineering deliverables.
• Providing an agile capability, delivering critical skills and resource aligned to business requirements underpinning the Programme

Disability Confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, CLIENT guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

Armed Forces Covenant

CLIENT is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on (phone number removed).

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

To apply for this role please submit your latest CV or contact Aspect Resources on (phone number removed)