Digital Buildings Engineering Manager

Location: Stoke-on-Trent

Mission:

We are looking for a GEC Engineering Manager to drive the strategic transformation of the engineering function within the Digital Buildings systems & project business.

The aim is to increase our competitiveness & improve our margins through establishing a collaborative working relationship between the countries and our Global Engineering Centre for BMS based in India. This is a key integration position, and the successful candidate must work well within a multi-cultural team. The key requirement is to unlock the many possibilities in business improvement/efficiency and growth by facilitating, driving change and providing support.

You will be an excellent communicator at all levels, proactive and exhibit strong collaborative qualities. Responsibilities:

Working with the GEC Leader and Country DB Management create an action plan for growth of offshore hardware design, software and graphics engineering, from the Country to GEC.Working closely with the VP of Digital Energy Systems Europe & France to Identify & Engage key operation, tendering & Sales country leadership to bring them onboard with GEC delivery within identified projects. In Collaboration with country stakeholders create clear sales opportunities appropriate for GEC support and support local tendering teams with accurate costing and saving plans of delivery by GEC teams.

Work with country operation leaders to identify appropriate GEC opportunities from live backlog projects. Through identification of sales & backlog pipelines agreed with country teams build monthly and yearly forecast of GEC man hours to be delivered in each region. Build labour savings forecasts and monitor against as delivered projects via the GEC to present to country leadership teams monthly/yearly savings from delivered projects.

Provide programme management to all GEC projects within Europe & France delivered by the GEC team. Ensuring progress reporting, timely delivery & accurate invoicing is carried out Track & monitor GEC estimation requests, ensuring timely costs for engineering resources are accurate and competitive delivered to country teams.  Manage quality process of delivered projects, identified country standards are adhered to and lessons learned on projects are carried out.  

Build & Report monthly KPI dashboard to European leadership team clearly identifying qty of hours delivered per country, cost savings achieved and forecasted hours vs targets. Agree with Country VPs yearly targets on delivered hours via the GEC and scope of projects to suit their business and sectors. Support GEC engineering community in identifying training needs and linking in the appropriate SMEs from in country to support development of GEC engineers.

Support GEC engineering community in identifying training needs and linking in the appropriate SMEs from in country to support development of GEC engineers. Work with the GEC leader to ensure the appropriate resource management and capacity planning is in place. Support local team during tendering process to ensure we build a competitive and realistic offshore cost model. Drive & monitor on time delivery from GEC to Country.

Actively Measure Quality & Internal customer satisfaction. Ensure corrective actions are rapidly put in place if necessary. The Engineering Manager role would report to the GEC Leader in India, with a dotted reporting line into the Digital Buildings Country management team.

Skills & Experience:

Experience working with Global Teams will be important, Different Nationalities & Cultures. Strong Team Interaction & Collaboration skills Self-driven & Passionate about efficiency and growth Strong Technical, Business & Financial Acumen Good understanding tendering/estimating and cost management for…