Engineering Director

Engineering Manager

(Full Time / Northwest Based)

Job Title:

Engineering Director

Reporting to:
Business Services Director

IES Utilities Group Ltd is a leading UK utility provider delivering end-to-end infrastructure solutions. Our teams operate across Power, Gas, Water, Telecoms, District Heating and Renewables, providing survey, design, construction, and maintenance services nationwide. We are committed to innovation, safety, engineering excellence, and sustainable delivery. Headquartered in Manchester, IES continues to grow as a trusted partner in the UKs critical infrastructure sector.

To lead, develop, and govern all engineering functions across the business, including Design, Site Engineering, Quality Assurance & Control, Document Control, Temporary Works, and Technical Governance. The Engineering Manager ensures safe, compliant, and efficient engineering delivery across multi-disciplinary gas, water, wastewater, power, and telecoms infrastructure projects. This role provides the highest level of technical authority and organisational assurance across the full project lifecycle — ensuring engineering excellence, robust Temporary Works design and governance, and the safe integration of design and construction activities.

• Establish and lead a unified Engineering function:
  Design, Site Engineering, QA/QC, Document Control, and Temporary Works.
• Define engineering strategy, standards, processes, and governance frameworks.
• Provide technical leadership across all engineering disciplines.
• Develop capability roadmaps covering design, site engineering, digital engineering, and temporary works.
• Embed a culture of safety, technical excellence, and engineering discipline across the organisation.

• Act as Lead Technical Authority for all engineering activities.
• Maintain and improve the Engineering Management System, including ISO 9001 and ISO 19650.
• Ensure full compliance with IGEM, BS/EN, DWI, ENA, and CDM Regulations.
• Lead and oversee the company’s Temporary Works governance, ensuring robust procedures, training, and assurance.
• Chair engineering reviews, design reviews, HAZOPs, constructability reviews, and safety-critical technical assurance meetings.
• Ensure engineering risks, design risks, and temporary works risks are properly identified, managed, and controlled.

• Lead all design activities: concept, FEED, detailed design, temporary works design, construction support, and as-builts.
• Nurture our internal capability with the view to establishing and building an internal design delivery team, commencing with in sourcing the delivery of civils temporary works designs and expanding from this point.
• Expand and formalise our current design supplier relationships by agreeing supplier frameworks and call-off arrangements.
• Formalise our design briefs issued to design suppliers and ensure controls are established to ensure design suppliers satisfy design outputs and standards.
• Act as final signatory for safety-critical designs.
• Lead design audits, compliance checks, and technical assurance reviews.

• Establish and manage a new Site Engineering function supporting multi-discipline construction projects.
• Ensure site engineers deliver quality control, field engineering, temporary works supervision, technical queries, and construction assurance.
• Provide engineering governance on site to ensure buildability, construction safety, and technical compliance.
• Embed consistent engineering practices across all sites including red‑line mark‑ups, temporary works controls, and technical change management.

• Lead the QA/QC strategy and operations across design and construction.
• Ensure ITPs, inspections, NCRs, corrective actions, and project quality documentation meet required standards.
• Drive continuous improvement and technical learning across engineering teams.
• Ensure Temporary Works inspections, checks, and sign‑offs form part of the QA/QC process.

• Lead the Document Control function and ensure compliance with ISO 19650 and digital…