Engineering Manager
SIEMENSBirminghamUpdate time: March 4,2022
Job Description
Siemens Mobility is pioneering the future of travel. Our purpose is reinventing, refining and revolutionising how people move throughout smarter urban environments and across a more sustainable world. From advanced engineering projects to pushing limits of data and machine learning, we’re changing the global landscape. You can move with us. Our dynamic career paths are designed for ambitious individuals to discover, develop and achieve more. We ask you to do your best to improve society with us, and in return we promise opportunities to progress in a company where the professionals are at the top of their game. Because the sharing culture, learning resources and scale of our projects will take you to an even higher level than you’re operating at now. Reporting to the Regional Head of Delivery, the Regional Engineering Manager (REM) is responsible for ensuring that the regional engineering team has the capability, capacity, process and governance to deliver the regional portfolio in the budgeted time and to the appropriate level of quality. The REM allocates delivery engineering team resources to the delivery portfolio. The REM is responsible for ensuring all procedures and tools are deployed consistently across the project portfolio as well as ensuring technical and engineering standards are complied with and engineering safety risk is managed effectively throughout the delivery project life-cycle. The REM is also responsible for driving forward efficiency changes and ensure a high level of knowledge and skill is maintained within the team deploying robust training and development activities Key Responsibilities Manage the regional portfolio of work-packages across a number of projects and deliver these to time, quality, and cost parameters agreed with the delivery director and in line with the strategy set by the Head of Engineering. Consistent implementation of company engineering standards and processes as determined by the Head of Engineering and the Regional Head of Delivery. Measurement of engineering performance against metrics agreed with Regional Head of Delivery. Champions, sponsors and participates in continuous improvement via proactive Continuous Improvement initiatives Implement an assurance regime to ensure compliance with standards determined by the Managing Director and Head of Engineering and implement corrective actions. Prepare and update work activity plans to maximise resource utilisation/efficiency. Prepare and maintain resource schedule to identify resource requirements to meet short term work bank surplus/shortfall in employees to be managed with the Head of Engineering. Allocation of engineering resources to meet the targets determined by the Regional Head of Delivery and Head of Engineering. Conduct regular performance appraisal of key staff and manage their performance. In conjunction with HR and Head of Engineering, develop specific training to address the competency development requirements. Act as mentor to the engineering community and promote personal development via continuous professional development and performance development plans. What do I need to qualify for this role? Experience of managing large multidisciplinary teams Established professional status within the signalling industry, will have significant experience of engineering implementation on large signalling schemes in the UK, Experience of overseas engineering delivery and metro signalling an advantage. Commercially aware – able to forecast and manage resource utilisation and costs. Safety culture aware – to be able to influence and develop an existing safety culture to latest generation thinking and practice. Supportive of a consistent company wide approach to continuous improvement. Strong leadership qualities including personal drive, persuasive communication skills, enthusiasm and support for company goals. A broad base of engineering skills, experiences, knowledge and competencies covering the full engineering life cycle, together with the requisite personal characteristics, to take responsibility for facilitating cross disciplinary engineering activity in complex, innovative and commercially challenging environments. Previous experience in Systems Engineering, Project Engineering and Design of safety critical or safety related real-time systems, test and installation environments. Strong and effective communicator at all levels within the Business – and in front of new and existing customers – both internal and external. Demonstrate an ability to work in an environment where calculated risk taking is necessary. Must be willing to fill gaps in own knowledge and experience through taking a pro-active approach to learning and seeking information from within and outside the company. About us We’re Siemens. A collection of over 377,000 great minds who are all making the future and you could be one of them! We have offices across the UK, full of talented individual’s helping us to challenge the today and work towards a brighter tomorrow. Does creating the ways a new world moves sound like it requires your skills? How about ensuring we do it with net-zero emissions by 2050? Discover a engineering career combining innovation, sustainability and a rare opportunity to shape society at scale. We are looking forward to receiving your online application. Please ensure you complete all areas of the application form to the best of your ability to help us review your suitability for the role. We will be in contact as soon as possible with an update on your application. What else do you need to know? Our compensation package includes a competitive salary, holiday allowance and pension. We celebrate the fact that our employees are individuals and have different wants and needs. With this in mind, we have a flexible benefits scheme where you can tailor your benefits package to suit you. If we all thought the same, we would never think of anything new! That’s why we recruit great minds from all walks of life. We recognise that building a diverse workforce is essential to the success of our business, therefore we encourage applications from a diverse talent pool. We are proud to announce that we have partnered with VERCIDA, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site where all our vacancies are in an accessible format. We welcome the opportunity to discuss flexibility requirements with our applicants to encourage agile working and innovation. #LI-KO Organization: Siemens Mobility Company: Siemens Mobility Limited Experience Level: not defined Job Type: Full-time

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