Design Quality and System Engineering Manager

Job Description Summary
The North and South Europe Grid System Integration (GSI) team delivers a wide range of high voltage AC and DC transmission projects and is looking for a Design Quality and System Engineering Manager to join the team.

These large and complex projects are designed and delivered using a wide range of processes and procedures and it is critical that the processes used are current fit for purpose and applied rigorously and consistently throughout the full life of the project.
In addition this role will be responsible for the application of a Systems Engineering approach and ensuring that these processes work together efficiently and interfaces and requirements are fully managed.

In this role you will provide leadership across the following three pillars:

Design Quality Management
Systems Engineering
Zero Defect framework management

Job Description:

As part of this role you will undertake the following tasks:

Design Quality Management:

• Process Compliance:
  • Undertake regular audits on the application of the processes used by the Engineering Team at both the tender and project delivery phases.
  • Identify and document any non-conformance and manage the undertaking of both the short and long term corrective actions.
• Process Maintenance and Development:
  • Identify and undertake the updating of existing procedures in order to create improvement efficiencies and general maintenance.
  • Identification of process gaps and the creation of new procedures to resolve the issue.
  • Ensure that the processes used by the Engineering team are coordinated both within the Engineering function and with other parts of the business.
  • Represent the North and South Europe Region at a global level for the creation and deployment of high-level centralised Engineering procedures.
  • From a process development and deployment perspective support the introduction of continuous improvement actions.
  • Continually educate the Engineering teams on the application of processes and the business expectations.

• Experience Capture and Capitalisation:
  • Lead and manage the capturing and capitalisation of the learning experienced from current and past projects.
  • Facilitate regular return of experience meetings during the life of the projects in order to systematically capture the learning.
  • Facilitate both ad-hoc and regular communication sessions to raise awareness of best practice quality concerns and areas of learning.
  • Identify and undertake any process changes resulting from both good and bad experiences on the projects.

Systems Engineering:

• Systems Engineering Approach: You will ensure that the processes being used by the Engineering teams consider the bigger picture and there is a significant focus on interface management and integration at all stages of the project life cycle.
• Requirements Management: You will lead the small team of Requirements Engineers and ensure that all tenders and projects have their requirements correctly captured managed and validated.

Zero Defect framework management:

• You will lead the implementation of the GE Vernova Zero Defect framework which is a management philosophy focused on preventing errors and achieving high quality by ensuring work is done correctly first time into the GSI NSE Engineering approach to delivering projects.
• The initial focus will be on delivering an improvement in the areas of Design Risk Management and Design verification and validation.

Requirements:

To succeed in this role you will have the following qualifications and experience:

• A first degree in an engineering discipline.
• Significant experience working in a role that has exposure to project delivery activities and be familiar with the types of processes and procedures used to deliver large capital projects.

• Be familiar with quality…