Engineering technical manager - Solar

The Role We're looking for an Engineering Technical Manager to play a key role in shaping and maintaining our engineering standards, documentation, and best practices. You'll act as a technical bridge between the Head of Design Engineering, senior designers, and wider engineering teams, ensuring our design outputs are consistent, compliant, and continually improving. This is a hands‑on technical leadership position, ideal for someone with strong solar PV engineering experience, excellent documentation skills, and a passion for quality and continuous improvement.

• Maintain and manage engineering documentation, standards, and processes.
• Provide technical updates, guidance, and best‑practice feedback to the design team.
• Review and challenge unclear or incomplete information in design packs.
• Lead the distribution and communication of new or updated documentation.
• Support training programmes across the design team.
• Collaborate closely with the Quality, Commissioning & Maintenance (QCM) team and the Quality Engineer (QE).
• Act as the primary technical point of contact for senior designers.
• Create performance guarantee standards and review client‑submitted versions.
• Attend site visits where required and approved.
• Perform random design spot checks and quality audits, providing written reports.
• Support attendance at industry events, technical exhibitions, and technology showcases.
• Help ensure the design team remains aligned with the latest industry developments, standards, and technologies.

• Strong background in solar PV design, engineering, or technical management.
• Excellent understanding of engineering documentation, standards, and quality control.
• Ability to communicate complex technical information clearly and effectively.
• Confident in challenging design details and ensuring high standards are upheld.
• Strong organisational skills with experience supporting team training or technical workshops.
• Collaborative mindset with the ability to influence and support multi‑disciplinary teams.
• Excellent understanding of the BS 7671 and the IET best practice guide to Solar PV.
• Excellent understanding of RC62, FM global, Loss prevention standards and the like.

• Experience with in a growing engineering or renewable energy department.
• Understanding of commissioning, O&M, or quality assurance activities.
• Familiarity with performance guarantee modelling or client technical documentation.

• 18th Edition
• QCF level 4 (e.g. City & Guilds 2396 Design)
• QCF level 3 (e.g. electrical installations, testing and inspection; City & Guilds 2391‑52)

• Opportunity to help shape technical standards within a rapidly growing solar engineering team.
• Career progression pathways within Mitie Power and Grid.
• Access to industry training, events, and personal development support.
• A collaborative, forward‑thinking environment committed to excellence and innovation.