Engineering Group Leader
About The Position
The Engineering Group Leader supports science delivery areas within SEDD by leading a multidisciplinary group of 10 colleagues across mechanical engineering, acoustic engineering, electronic engineering and net rigging. The role is responsible for timely delivery of workstreams that underpin survey work conducted by other SEDD delivery areas, and works closely with SEDD senior delivery leads and the Ships and Logistics Group Leader. The post holder is responsible for health and safety compliance and ensuring colleagues are appropriately trained, and line manages five colleagues. The position is a permanent, full-time, 35-hour-per-week role based at the Marine Laboratory in Aberdeen. It is not location neutral and is available only as a level transfer for substantive Core Scottish Government employees. Flexible working options, including Flexi-leave, are available.
Requirements
- Significant experience working in an engineering environment and managing specialist projects to deadlines.
- Experience maintaining and developing delivery standards and methodologies.
- Experience maintaining and developing health and safety compliance in an engineering environment.
- Experience of line management.
- Experience of change management.
Responsibilities
- Provide expert engineering expertise aligned with one or more engineering teams.
- Maintain and strengthen a health and safety culture through targeted training within the group.
- Lead programme planning, reporting and performance tracking, providing timely, high-quality insight to SEDD senior delivery leads.
- Oversee delivery, including risks, issues, dependencies, change control and resource planning across teams and workstreams.
- Support delivery-area assurance activities using QPulse and ensure compliance with audit actions and recommendations.
- Enable effective governance by ensuring meetings, reporting and decision-making processes run smoothly.
- Drive continuous improvement and team cohesion within the Engineering Group and across wider delivery areas.
- Lead and develop staff, including line management and building team capacity.
Benefits
- Flexible working options, including Flexi-leave.
- A supportive and inclusive working environment and a range of employee benefits (not specified).
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
