Engineering Director

Role: Engineering Director
Location: London / Bristol / Manchester / Suffolk (flexible with regular site presence)

Overview
We are supporting the appointment of an Engineering Director for a major UK infrastructure programme. This is a senior leadership role reporting to the Chief Technical Officer, responsible for leading programme-wide engineering delivery and ensuring design is delivered to required quality, maturity, cost and schedule.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Programme Engineering Teams and Risk & Opportunities function
• Ensure delivery of a safe, mature, high-quality design aligned to cost and schedule
• Drive replication of an existing reference design
• Oversee configuration management and design integration across programmes
• Act as senior escalation point for complex technical challenges
• Discharge Principal Designer responsibilities under CDM regulations
• Lead technical risk management and strategic response to programme-level issues
• Work closely with delivery teams, supply chain and design partners

Candidate Profile

• Director-level experience in major infrastructure or nuclear projects
• Strong background in engineering leadership across complex programmes
• Experience delivering within regulated environments (nuclear highly desirable)
• Strong understanding of design governance, configuration management and risk
• Ability to influence at senior stakeholder level (internal and external)
• Chartered Engineer (or equivalent)

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