As Lead Electrical Engineer, you'll lead the successful delivery of electrical projects across Indigo's customer environments, ensuring projects are delivered safely, efficiently and to the required quality standards.
You'll act as the technical lead and key point of contact for assigned projects, overseeing delivery, governance, compliance and customer engagement while driving continuous improvement across project execution and electrical standards.
You'll also act as the Qualified Supervisor (QS) for electrical accreditations, including NICEIC, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and industry standards.
You'll operate in a highly customer-facing environment, building strong relationships with stakeholders across Indigo, our customers and delivery partners. This is a remote UK-based role with regular national travel and occasional international travel as project requirements dictate.
What You'll Do
Project Delivery & Customer Management
- Act as the primary point of contact for assigned electrical projects and programmes.
- Ensure projects are delivered to agreed time, cost and quality objectives while maintaining high levels of customer satisfaction.
- Support Sales teams with technical input and expertise where required.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external customers.
- Provide project escalation support and resolve issues where necessary.
- Ensure efficient and effective handover of completed projects to Operational Delivery teams.
Leadership & Performance
- Work closely with the Head of Projects and Engineering Manager to drive consistency of performance across the project management organisation.
- Provide leadership, support and technical guidance to project teams.
- Assist in developing innovative and flexible project delivery strategies with internal teams and third-party suppliers.
- Resolve conflicts and competing priorities to achieve the best outcomes for Indigo and its customers.
- Communicate short- and long-term programme objectives and ensure delivery strategies remain aligned.
- Drive continuous improvement across assigned projects and delivery teams.
- Promote high performance through coaching, mentoring and development.
- Identify training requirements and support career development.
- Contribute to workforce and succession planning.
Project Governance, Compliance & Safety
- Support and enhance project delivery processes and methodologies.
- Ensure projects are effectively planned, with resources allocated appropriately based on scope and risk.
- Facilitate regular project team meetings and ensure milestone and benefit tracking is maintained.
- Manage project risks and opportunities through robust governance practices.
- Conduct regular service audits and ensure appropriate HSE and Quality audit programmes are established and maintained.
- Act as Qualified Supervisor (QS) for electrical accreditations, including NICEIC.
- Promote and maintain a strong Safety, Health and Environmental culture.
- Maintain compliance with Indigo security policies, protecting people, information and company and customer assets.
- Ensure assigned projects comply with relevant regulations, standards and internal governance requirements.
Financial & Commercial Management
- Manage, control and report financial expenditure against assigned project budgets.
- Drive efficiencies and minimise costs through effective project delivery processes and systems.
- Identify opportunities for cost savings and operational synergies through the application of best practice.
- Manage project variations and ensure customer billing is completed accurately and on time.
- Support supplier engagement and delivery strategies in partnership with Procurement.
- Apply commercial awareness to support bids, business development initiatives and customer outcomes.