HPS ECI Manager

Location: Cheadle

The EC&I Engineering Manager will lead the Electrical, Instrumentation & Control discipline across HPS. This dual-role position combines technical leadership and team management with a strategic commercial focus — supporting proposal development, client engagement, and the wider growth of the business.
You will be responsible for managing the EC&I department’s operations, developing talent, ensuring project delivery, and actively contributing to client satisfaction and commercial success.
In the early stages of the role, the EC&I Engineering Manager is expected to spend approximately 80% of their time on fee-earning project work. This will naturally be reviewed as the department and workload grow.
EC&I Department Management

* Line management for 4 EC&I engineers, 4 designers, and 1 apprentice designer.

* Weekly task alignment, workload balancing, and milestone tracking.

* Facilitate weekly 30-minute team meetings to assess progress and priorities.

* Conduct monthly one-to one sessions and annual performance appraisals.

* Guide, mentor and support apprentices by providing regular feedback, and opportunities for skill development, ensuring alignment with both departmental goals and engineering standards.
Project Alignment

* Collaborate with Project Managers during project kick-off to align scope, resourcing, and deliverables.

* Assist project managers with identifying and mitigating project delivery risks

* Ongoing support and oversight of EC&I resource deployment across projects
Technical Assurance & Design Governance

* Implement and maintain HPS EC&I checking and approval procedures in line with company-wide technical assurance requirements.

* Act as EC&I discipline approver for defined deliverables, delegating checking responsibilities appropriately within the team.

* Ensure EC&I designs are consistently safe, compliant, and phase-appropriate across all projects.

* Escalate novel, high-risk, or safety-critical technical issues to the Technical Director.
Planning & Reporting

* Participate in weekly resource planning with the Operations Director and the Director of Projects.

* Attend quarterly management meetings to review departmental performance, inter-discipline coordination, and continuous improvement opportunities. Present departmental KPI’s, providing analysis of trends, opportunities, and risks.
Performance Management

* Define and track department-specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

* Drive process improvements and maintain high-quality technical delivery.
Recruitment & Growth

* Support recruitment of EC&I personnel, including assessing technical competencies.

* Mentor and develop the team to build future leadership and technical expertise.
Culture

* Embrace and actively promote company values through collaboration, ethical behaviour and team working.

* Build trust with client teams to make HPS the partner of choice through project delivery excellence.
EC&I Engineering
➔ Lead assigned projects from an EC&I perspective, overseeing engineering deliverables and quality.
➔ Recognises that EC&I professionals typically specialise in one or two disciplines and therefore must demonstrate a sound technical grounding and working understanding of core principles across their weaker EC&I areas.
➔ Able to competently review, challenge, and integrate Electrical, Instrumentation, and Control designs by understanding intent, limitations, and interfaces, even where not a subject-matter expert.
➔ Demonstrates sufficient cross discipline technical awareness to identify risk, ensure design coherence, and make informed engineering decisions across the full EC&I scope.
➔ Holds a good working knowledge of hazardous area design (ATEX/BS EN 60079) suffucient to act as design authority, review compliance, and provide hands- on support where required.
➔ Demonstrates a sound understanding of functional safety to BS EN 61511, enabling effective oversight of safety lifecycle activities and informed technical decision- making.
➔ Has a strong appreciation of EC&I requirements on GMP projects, including design intent, documentation standards, and verification expectations.
➔ Attend weekly internal design reviews to report progress and identify…