Human Resources
IUS offers excellent career opportunities in engineering, technical, administrative and management roles throughout the UK. We are goals driven and reward hard work, loyalty and commitment. We look to develop individuals who match the ambitions of our Company. IUS value the contribution every employee makes to the overall success of the business and is committed to providing a safe working environment, fair and equal treatment and training and development opportunities for all employees.
Applications are invited from everyone with appropriate experience and qualifications. Applicants are considered on the basis of their suitability for the post irrespective of sex, marriage and civil partnership, sexual orientation, gender re-assignment (intended or actual), race (including colour, nationality or ethnic or national origins), age, disability, religion or belief and pregnancy and maternity.
Our people are our strength; we equip employees with the resources and support necessary to be successful in a safe and rewarding environment.
Take a look at the careers opportunities and if you have the necessary attributes and experience, then submit your C.V. and covering letter to the HR department at our Middlesbrough Office.
Career Opportunities in IUS
IUS is a wholly owned subsidiary of Northern Powergrid and an electrical contracting business that provides diverse and complex power engineering solutions to major clients throughout the UK.
IUS offer excellent career opportunities and is seeking the following personnel due to significant new contract awards.
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Business Development - Sales
Scotland, Bathgate
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Position Overview:
Reporting to the Business Development Manager, a salesperson is required to utilise communication skills, industry knowledge and a natural hunger to identify new opportunities and promote IUS as a high-quality electrical contractor. The ultimate aim of this role is to provide viable enquiries, which will be competitively tendered by our experienced commercial team, with the aim of sustainable growth therefore enthusiasm and drive is a must.
As well as the role being intrinsically linked to communications with clients and stakeholders, you must also be a team player and have the ability to build relationships with your colleagues across the business.
Key Responsibilities:
- Identify potential opportunities for IUS for both projects and maintenance agreements across the Renewable Energy, Health, Education, Water, Defence, Petrochemical, Industrial sectors
- Sell IUS’ capabilities to potential clients as well as managing existing accounts
- Database management and accurate inputs
- Implement sales campaigns to generate new business
- Provide good quality information to the Tendering & Estimating team to allow the production of accurate quotations
- Make follow up calls/visits to customers to help convert quotations to orders
- Producing IUS publications which sell IUS services
- Maintaining regular communications with clients and stakeholder
- Interaction with colleagues, ensuring they are informed of IUS business opportunities and general sales performance throughout the year.
Key Competencies:
- Customer service
- Written communication
- Planning and organizing
- Verbal communication
- Interpreting information
- Technical knowledge of IUS’ services
Essential Qualifications & Experience:
- Good standard of education – minimum of 5 GCSE’s (or equivalent) including Math’s and English.
- Experience of sales activities or electrical industry knowledge
- Full UK driving license
Desirable Qualifications & Experience:
- Sales/marketing qualification.
- Electrical qualification
- Experience of sales roles in the high voltage electrical industry.
Please submit a CV along with a covering letter and email to jobapplications@ius.co.uk
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CAD Technician
Middlesbrough or Wakefield
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Key Responsibilities:
- Produce clear and concise technical drawings, in standard company form in support of design and delivery functions.
- Develop and maintain standard drawing templates
- Produce as built drawings in support of effective project closure.
- Through design change management, update and amend design drawings as required by the project.
- Manage the drawings within the company’s document control system.
- Manage and record the distribution of all drawings to the operations team.
- Produce ad-hoc drawings in standard form in support of tendering activities.
Key Competencies:
- Planning and organizing
- Accurate and detail orientated
- Communication
- Customer service
- Time management
Qualifications & Experience:
- Strong IT skills
- Proficient in AutoCAD LT (dwg format drawings)
- City & Guilds Award in Computer Aided Design or equivalent is desirable
- Experience in engineering industry
- Experience of working within an electricity distribution network operator type business is desirable.
Please submit a CV along with a covering letter and email to jobapplications@ius.co.uk
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Design Manager
Middlesbrough or Wakefield
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Position Overview:
A Design Manager is required to lead and develop a multi-skilled team of engineering colleagues to deliver the detailed designs for all workstream areas and to drive the provision of an enhanced level of support to the Operations team to ensure all relevant contractual obligations are met.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the IUS design team to provide detailed designs for all workstreams across the business.
- Enhance current design processes to reduce company risk and liability via formal validation, verification and approval prior to and during construction.
- Improve internal processes and procedures to ensure all designs completed within IUS are appropriately checked, validated, verified and approved prior to being issued for construction.
- Control design liabilities by implementing robust approval procedures to ensure all designs meet performance parameters and client expectations.
- Build an operations-based design team to strengthen design capability with regards to resource, training, competence and experience.
- Develop competencies to allow IUS to be appointed as a Principal Designer under CDM regulations.
- Develop and maintain a suite of IUS design procedures, standards, specifications and guidance documents.
- Maintain continuity and consistency of design work for all relevant workstreams ensuring that delivery timescales and targets are not affected.
- Design engineers and technicians are progressively upskilled to meet current and future work programme demands
- Evidence that the team are achieving optimised utilisation and are meeting and exceeding customer charter targets.
- Create a robust quality assurance process for all relevant project, contract or framework designs.
- Talent profile of all resources maintained, with high growth potential assessed and actively managed.
Key Competencies:
- Leadership
- Planning and organizing
- Accurate and detail orientated
- Customer service
- Commercial awareness
- Colleague development
- Time management
- SHEQ understanding
Essential Qualifications & Experience:
- HNC in Electrical Engineering or Degree in Electrical Engineering
- Professional Registration to Incorporated or Chartered Engineer level
- Experience years’ experience of working within an electricity distribution network operator type business or similar in a design role.
- Network analysis and specialist studies using company software to ensure network operation and compliance with prevailing standards such as ER P28, G5 and G99.
- Protection systems.
- Full UK Driving License
Desirable Qualifications & Experience:
- Design of cable networks, overhead line and substation installations at 33kV, 66kV and 132kV.
- Experience of leading, coaching and mentoring a design team.
Please submit a CV along with a covering letter and email to jobapplications@ius.co.uk.
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Major Projects Bid Manager
Wakefield or Middlesbrough
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Position:
IUS is currently in search of a talented and motivated Bid Manager with experience in EHV Power Distribution across all sectors. Reporting to the Head of Commercial the role will be to seek and lead major project bidding activity.
The primary responsibility of this role is to identify, lead and manage the development of accurate and timely major project estimates and submit competitive bids and operational delivery proposals for our client-base. Be the main interface for major project bidding activity.
Key Responsibilities:
- Determine and price value-engineered alternatives to plans and specifications in order to demonstrate to clients’ commitment to value engineering.
- Enhance current major projects tendering process to improve company’s ability to win work
- Hold and contribute towards pre and post tender bid meetings with clients and their representatives in pursuit of securing work.
- Grow the capacity of the supply chain to diversify IUS’ capability for delivery of complex solutions and to achieve best value
- Demonstrate excellent negotiation skills in order to negotiate and conclude securing of opportunities for the supply of works, goods, materials and services.
- Ensure appropriate chasing down to understand the status of bids post submission, until opportunity is closed.
- Aid the analysis of commercial terms with the context of the intended scope to ensure contractual obligations are transferred into delivery
- Ensure contractual requirements are reflected into estimates and marked for attention as part of handover process with operational team.
- Formulate early view of intended delivery team and work alongside to upskill the understanding of submissions with plans and programmes flowing through to delivery and avoiding a transactional handover. This is to ensure the business is “fit for construction
- Assist the Tender & Estimating team to meet the financial targets so the business can achieve growth targets.
Core Deliverables:
- Develop and maintain effective key client relationships, in the pursuit of securing major projects work.
- Act in a manner that promotes best practice in relation to safety performance.
- Ensure Major Projects Experience in the utility construction industry with a complete understanding of gas, water and electric distribution infrastructures. Experienced with scheme finance and commercial management.
- Ensure cash management is a consideration when sanctioning bidding opportunities.
- Create hand over culture aimed at ensuring operational delivery can successfully delivery the project.
- Talent profile of all resources maintained, with high growth potential assessed and actively managed.
- Utilising standard quotation letters submit bespoke, proposals/quotations to our clients.
Key Competencies:
- Confident and self-motivated individual with the ability to be innovative whilst still being able to follow and improve set processes.
- Able to identify the requirements of the project
- Direct estimating resource in the pursuit of major project bidding activities
- Accurately prepare quotations considering all costs associated with the delivery of the project
- Can provide detailed hand over project files to the Project Management Team to allow for a successful delivery of the project
- Correspond and negotiate with clients, suppliers, contractors and colleagues
- Are able to manage situations when workload presents conflicting demands on time availability, demonstrating an ability to effectively prioritise and schedule
- Are able to monitor progress and implement controls to ensure tasks are achieved to time cost and quality
- Can develop and select effective solutions to problems and to manage risk
- Communicate facts, ideas and proposals to others in an effective and persuasive manner
- Work with others to develop knowledge and skills throughout the team
- Deliver efficient and effective customer service
- Use office software to improve work outputs
Essential Qualifications & Experience:
- Knowledge of Low Voltage and High Voltage (HV & EHV) distribution networks and protection systems
- HNC (or equivalent) in Electrical Engineering
- Experience in the construction industry. Experience in management of a team, technical expertise relevant to estimating
- Civil Engineering/Utilities experience
- Knowledge of Contract Law, Health & Safety awareness and CDM Regulations
- Forward planning to ensure tender timescales are met
- Commercial awareness
- Full UK driving licence
Desirable Qualifications & Experience:
- Chartered Engineer status
- Experience in the utility construction industry with a complete understanding of gas, water and electric distribution infrastructures. Experienced with scheme finance and commercial management.
Please submit a CV along with a covering letter and email to jobapplications@ius.co.uk
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Operations Manager - Frameworks
Wakefield or Middlesbrough
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Position Overview:
An Operations Manager - Frameworks is required for the delivery of multiple HV DNO contributing to business plan goals. This role is a senior operational lead, holding responsibility for the delivery of frameworks in their respective workstream, contributing to business plan goals.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide workstream-specific knowledge and expertise to the operations leadership team and the wider business to ensure that future work opportunities are achieved, risks are identified and mitigated and operational excellence and optimised workstream delivery efficiencies are achieved.
- Achieve industry-leading workstream delivery to time, cost, budget, quality, safety and customer service standards utilizing technical and industrial resources and contractor service providers.
- Deliver continuous improvement in the delivery of frameworks, therefore, ensuring the team manage and pro-actively mitigate risks to contractual performance and delivery through effective project, contract and commercial management.
- Drive achievement of all operational, external stakeholder and customer service standards, working in collaboration across all workstream areas where needed.
- Drive proactive management and improvement plans when standards and/or customer satisfaction is not achieved.
- Set and implement effective control measures to ensure the frameworks are delivered to time, cost and quality parameters.
- Routinely assess the frameworks to identify risks and interdependencies and re-set priorities as needed.
- Deliver against productivity and safety targets.
- Actively engage with colleagues deployed and provide evidence-based structured feedback to Project Managers and Project Coordinators on their performance and impact on the frameworks they deliver.
- Lead and monitor financial, operational and commercial performance.
Key Competencies:
- Leadership
- Team working
- Customer service
- Operational Management
- Colleague development
- Planning and resource management
- Commercial reporting/forecasting
- Commercial processes
- Contract awareness
Essential Qualifications & Experience:
- HNC in Engineering or Construction
- IOSH Managing Safety
- Full UK Driving Licence
- Use of Microsoft Office Applications
- Contract and Unit Management
- Project Management
- Application of CDM
- Customer/Client Management
- Commercial reporting including CVR
Desirable Qualifications & Experience:
- Degree in Engineering or Construction
- NEBOSH certificate
- Prince/PMI practitioner
- Chartered Engineer
- Operational experience
- NRSWA
- Line management of business streams
- Commercial and operational responsibilities
Please submit a CV along with a covering letter and email to jobapplications@ius.co.uk
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Overhead Lines Working Supervisor
Wakefield, Morley or Middlesbrough
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FIXED TERM CONTRACT up to 12 Months
IUS Ireland
Position Overview:
An Overhead Line Working Supervisor is required for the supervision of all aspects of OHLC work activities. This includes setting colleagues to work, control and management of safe working practices, driving productivity and efficiencies and the provision of technical assistance onsite.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure industry compliance is adhered to and quality of work is achieved at all times.
- Issue and provide face to face delivery of task instructions to working parties to ensure teams are ‘set to work’ safely and efficiently.
- Control and manage on site safety, quality and production.
- Ensure task instructions are adhered to and that all supporting documentation needed to be filled out by the teams takes place.
- Ensure that risk assessments are carried out daily and to a high-quality standard.
- Carry out scheme pre-site assessments to determine works that can be completed. This will include the detailing of isolation points, TMA requirements, access issues, plant requirements etc.
- Ensure that all planned work has been pre-visited to ensure that all preparatory work required has been achieved prior to commencement.
- Liaise with councils and members of the public to ensure that works can be programmed and in turn delivered on site.
- Confirm plant and machinery requirements for programmed site activities.
- Ordering of materials (with the support of the IUS Storekeeper).
- Carry out safety audits and toolbox talks as per the business schedules.
- Resolve non-conformances and customer complaints where necessary.
- Manage all aspects of vehicle, tools, equipment and PPE related issues for all OHL staff.
Key Competencies:
- Leadership
- Team working
- Customer service
- Operational Management
- Contract awareness
- Good communicator
- Commercially aware
- Sound decision maker who displays good judgement
- Computer literate
Essential Qualifications & Experience:
- Experience and knowledge of the O/H line system at both LV & HV is essential
- Authorised at LV and HV for a DNO
- Full UK Driving Licence
- Use of Microsoft Office Applications
- Customer/Client Management
Please submit a CV along with a covering letter and email to jobapplications@ius.co.uk
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Operations Manager – Multi Utility
Wakefield or Middlesbrough
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Position Overview:
An Operations Manager – Multi Utility is required for the management of delivery of multiple large scale projects delivering gas, water and electric (HV & LV) mains and services installations to regional and national housing developers.
The role is a senior operational lead, holding responsibility for the delivery of projects in their respective workstream, contributing to business plan goals.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide workstream-specific knowledge and expertise to the operations leadership team and the wider business to ensure that future work opportunities are achieved, risks are identified and mitigated and operational excellence and optimised workstream delivery efficiencies are achieved.
- Achieve industry-leading workstream delivery to time, cost, budget, quality, safety and customer service standards utilizing technical and industrial resources and contractor service providers.
- Deliver continuous improvement in the delivery of projects, therefore, ensuring the team manage and pro-actively mitigate risks to contractual performance and delivery through effective project, contract and commercial management.
- Drive achievement of all operational, external stakeholder and customer service standards, working in collaboration across all workstream areas where needed.
- Drive proactive management and improvement plans when standards and/or customer satisfaction is not achieved.
- Set and implement effective control measures to ensure the projects are delivered to time, cost and quality parameters.
- Routinely assess the projects to identify risks and interdependencies and re-set priorities as needed.
- Deliver against productivity and safety targets.
- Actively engage with colleagues deployed and provide evidence-based structured feedback to Project Managers and Project Coordinators on their performance and impact on the projects they deliver.
- Lead and monitor financial, operational and commercial performance.
Key Competencies:
- Leadership
- Team working
- Customer service
- Operational Management
- Colleague development
- Planning and resource management
- Commercial reporting/forecasting
- Commercial processes
- Contract awareness
Essential Qualifications & Experience:
- HNC in Engineering or Construction
- IOSH Managing Safety
- Full UK Driving License
- Use of Microsoft Office Applications
- Contract and Unit Management
- Project Management
- Application of CDM
- Customer/Client Management
- Commercial reporting including CVR
- Gas / Water experience would be beneficial
- Presentation skills
- Ability to interface with clients
Desirable Qualifications & Experience:
- Degree in Engineering or Construction
- NEBOSH certificate
- Prince/PMI practitioner
- Chartered Engineer
- Operational experience
- NRSWA
- Line management of business streams
- Commercial and operational responsibilities
Please submit a CV along with a covering letter and email to jobapplications@ius.co.uk
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Business Development Coordinator
Wakefield or Middlesbrough
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Position Overview:
Reporting to the Business Development Manager, a Business Development Co-ordinator is required to provide support to the Business Development team, assist in the marketing of IUS, the identification of business opportunities and support electronic tendering activities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Complete Pre-Qualification Questionnaires and maintain a register of information supplied
- Produce project numbers in the CDA database
- Update the Salesforce customer relationship management tool
- Assist in the production of weekly and monthly reports
- Produce follow up reports for the Sales and T & E engineers
- Search the Glenigan’s database for business opportunities and generate enquiries or arrange appointments for the Sales Team
- Review appropriate tender notification systems to include portals, electronic newsfeeds, industry and company specific news information to identify any business opportunities.
- Monitor the IUS Enquiries mailbox and respond to emails as required
- Answer all telephone calls to the IUS enquiries telephone number
- Produce agenda, sales documentation and take minutes at the Sales Hub meetings
- Provide support to T&E Team working on strategic large-scale tenders
- Assist with electronic tendering on behalf of IUS
- Assist in the production of IUS Sales & Marketing literature
- Assist in maintaining and updating the IUS website
- Assist with internal communications including Connect, Annual Reviews, Employee Engagement
- Manage the IUS Customer Charter process with a particular emphasis on client feedback
- Creation and management of E marketing including social media platforms - LinkedIn / Facebook / Instagram / Twitter etc
- Coordination of IUS marketing products (Diaries, Calendars etc.)
- Coordination of IUS marketing events
- Produce management reporting information
- Undertake any other ad hoc duties in order to support the Business Development Sales Hub team
Competencies:
- Customer service
- Time management
- Strong IT skills
- Social media communication
- Verbal & written communication
- Team Working
- Planning & organising
Desirable Qualifications & Experience:
- Appropriate Business or Marketing qualification desirable
- Experience of sourcing potential opportunities
- Media skills and experience
Please submit a CV along with a covering letter and email to jobapplications@ius.co.uk
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Multi-Utility Operatives (x2)
Wakefield or Middlesbrough
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Position Overview:
IUS is looking to recruit a number of Multi Utility Operatives to deliver both services and mains work on existing Multi Utility projects. The work is UK based - predominately in the North East, Yorkshire and Midlands regions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deliver gas and water testing, installation, commissioning, construction and maintenance work in line with company productivity expectations.
- Complete all works to industry standards whilst adhering to scheduled work programmes.
- Carry out ‘off site’ excavations for all utilities whilst remaining compliant with HSG 47 and local council constraints.
- Drive customer service and satisfaction by meeting prescribed appointments and delivering work safely and efficiently.
- Complete all planned works and ensure that all work sites are left in a safe and tidy state.
- Champion IUS’ safety culture by delivering all works safely and in line with operational work instructions.
- Complete all relevant documentation such as, task instructions, as-built records, test certificates, meter fix forms, photos etc.
- Work on both PE and metallic pipes (laying and jointing) – including butt fusion
- Use of plant (mainly excavators180/360 excavators and dumpers) up to 10T
Key Competencies:
- Team working
- Customer Service
- Written and verbal communication
- Time management
Essential Qualifications & Experience:
- EUSR NCO (G + W) Mains and or Services
- NRASWA
- Gas and water SHEA
- Water hygiene
- CPCS
Full UK Driving Licence
Please submit a CV along with a covering letter and email to jobapplications@ius.co.uk
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Engineering Manager
Wakefield or Middlesbrough
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Position Overview:
An Engineering Manager is required to lead the operational development and improvement of all electrical safety management-related activities and take responsibility for the management and development of a multi-skilled team of engineering colleagues whilst holding IUS ‘1st Engineer’ status.
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for IUS electrical safety management, including the on-going control, management and improvement of IUS’ electrical Distribution Safety Rules, electrical authorisations and electrical safety procedures.
- Overall accountability of electrical safety management for all IUS planned and unplanned workstream activities on LV, HV and EHV, DNO, iDNO and private networks.
- Lead the improvement and enhancement of IUS’ electrical safety management performance.
- Responsible for electrical operational compliance.
- Maximise colleague productivity by aligning skills and authorisations with current and future work opportunities.
- Development of technical colleagues through the control and management of IUS’ electrical approval and assessment processes (as IUS’ designated Authorising Engineer) for the issuing of IUS electrical authority codes and be the responsible manager for IUS’ NERS accreditations.
- Drive continuous improvement in operational safety excellence through proactive audit and assessment of delivery performance.
Key Competencies:
- Leadership
- Team working
- Customer service
- Operational management
- Colleague development
- Planning and resource management
- Commercial awareness
Essential Qualifications & Experience:
- HNC in Engineering or Construction
- IOSH Managing Safety
- Operational experience
- Full UK Driving Licence
- Use of Microsoft Office Applications
- Customer/Client Management
Desirable Qualifications & Experience:
- Degree in Engineering or Construction
- NEBOSH certificate
- Prince/PMI practitioner
- Chartered Engineer
Please submit a CV along with a covering letter and email to jobapplications@ius.co.uk
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Linesperson LE1 + Overhead
Wakefield, Morley or Middlesbrough
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Position Overview:
A fully trained and experienced LE1+ Linesperson is required. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate a full working knowledge of both LV and HV DNO overhead systems.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deliver LV and HV OHL works in line with company productivity expectations.
- Complete all works to industry standards whilst adhering to scheduled work programmes.
- Carry out construction, refurbishment and maintenance works at both LV and HV.
- This includes LV/HV rebuild and refurbishment works, including wood and steel pole replacements and open wire and ABC re-stringing, LV/HV D pole works, CRM, ESQCR, LV steel pole replacements, shrouding works.
- Drive customer service and satisfaction by meeting prescribed appointments and delivering work safely and efficiently.
- Complete all planned works and ensure that all work sites are left in a safe and tidy state.
- Champion IUS’ safety culture by delivering all works safely and in line with operational work instructions.
- Complete all relevant documentation such as, SCPP task instructions, as-built records, photos etc.
- Use of plant (mainly excavators180/360 excavators and dumpers) up to 10T
Key Competencies:
- Team working
- Customer service skills
- Time management skills
- Written and verbal communication
Essential Qualifications & Experience:
Essential Northern Powergrid Qualifications:
- DNO Authorizations: A1, O1, O2.1, O2.2, O3.1, O10.2, O10.4, O10.5,W3, W5.1, W5.2,
- NRASWA
- CPCS
- IPAF
- Full UK driving licence
Please submit a CV along with a covering letter and email to jobapplications@ius.co.uk
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Overhead Lines Planner (x2)
Wakefield, Morley or Middlesbrough
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FIXED TERM CONTRACT up to 12 Months
IUS Ireland
Position Overview:
OHL Planners are required for the IUS Ireland Overhead Line Contract. The successful candidate will effectively co-ordinate, lead and proactively manage, maintain and populate the short and medium term programmes of work. And will also ensure effective planning, development and delivery of the Overhead Line schemes is achieved safely, to programme and to budget to the satisfaction of the client.
Key Responsibilities:
- Establish resource requirements for the short and medium term planning
- Create task instructions
- Complete as built records
- Effective programming (planned/actual)
- Resource the work in line with commercial KPI’s
- Organize shutdown working
- Achieve industry-leading planning management to time, cost, budget, quality, safety and customer service standards utilising technical and industrial resources allocated by the Engineering and Resource Managers and contractor service providers.
- Deliver projects ensuring pro-active identification, management and mitigation of contractual and project risk is achieved. Applied through effective project, contract and commercial management.
- Drives and accomplishes customer service standards, working in collaboration across all business areas where needed. Drive proactive management and improvement plans when standards and/or customer satisfaction is not achieved.
- Bring together external and internal project stakeholders to meet the customer requirements. Lead and control core project areas applying strategies to improve budget margin ensuring customer satisfaction is always achieved.
- Routinely assesses the projects to identify risks and interdependencies, re-setting priorities as needed.
- Plan and drive project deliverable and non-deliverable outputs providing guidance to project staff.
- Lead, monitor and record project financial, safety, operational and commercial performance and project closure.
- Supervise, coordinate and manage on-site working parties delivering HV or LV works for DNO’s.
- Liaise with councils and members of the public to ensure that works can be programmed and delivered on site.
- Confirm plant and machinery requirements for programmed site activities.
- Carry out safety audits and toolbox talks as per the business schedules.
- Resolve non-conformances and customer complaints where necessary.
Key Competencies:
- Leadership
- Communication
- Team working
- Customer service
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Project Manager – UKC (x3)
Wakefield or Middlesbrough
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Position Overview:
Project Managers are required to be fully responsible for the safe successful delivery of UK Contract (UKC) Projects, ICP Connections and Major Projects.
This is a pivotal role, responsible for the management and mitigation of project risk culminating in the on-time delivery of a portfolio of projects, meeting business and legislative requirements in project performance, health, safety, quality and environmental compliance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Achieve industry-leading project delivery to time, cost, budget, quality, safety and customer service standards utilising technical and industrial resources allocated by the Engineering and Resource Managers and contractor service providers.
- Deliver projects ensuring pro-active identification, management and mitigation of contractual and project risk is achieved. Applied through effective project, contract and commercial management.
- Drives and accomplishes customer service standards, working in collaboration across all business areas where needed. Drive proactive management and improvement plans when standards and/or customer satisfaction is not achieved.
- Bring together external and internal project stakeholders to meet the customer requirements. Lead and control core project areas applying strategies to improve budget margin ensuring customer satisfaction is always achieved.
- Routinely assesses the projects to identify risks and interdependencies, re-setting priorities as needed.
- Plan and drive project deliverable and non-deliverable outputs providing guidance to project staff.
- Lead, monitor and record project financial, safety, operational and commercial performance and project closure.
Key Competencies:
- Planning, organising and time management
- Good communicator and able to interpret information
- Teamwork
- Customer Service
- Commercial awareness
- Decision making
- Cost management
- Project programme management
- Understanding and knowledge of HV/LV systems
Essential Qualifications & Experience:
- ONC (or equivalent) in Electrical Engineering
- Project Management experience on HV & LV networks along with strong financial control, knowledge of contracts and contract law
- Produce/monitor project programme, monitor in MS project or equivalent and knowledge of scheduling of work and resources
- Cost and revenue management
- Able to produce and operate as a Principal Contractor under CDM
- Full UK driving licence
Desirable Qualifications & Experience:
- HNC or Degree in Electrical Engineering
- Project Management – Prince 2, APM and equivalent role based experience
- Management qualifications
- NRSWA Supervisors Competence
- DNO authorisations
- Experience in managing a construction project delivery team
- Previous experience of working in a similar role
- Experienced in framework and scheme project management
Please submit a CV along with a covering letter and email to jobapplications@ius.co.uk
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Resource Manager
Middlesbrough or Wakefield
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Position Overview:
This additional Resource Manager role (one of two in IUS) will have shared responsibility for IUS resources. The role includes the control and management of the central resource planning function, work initiation and coordination, tools, vehicles and PPE etc.
The role shall manage and develop a multi-skilled team of industrial colleagues to deliver planned and unplanned work on both private and DNO LV, HV and EHV networks across all of IUS’ workstream areas. Optimise colleague utilisation, maximising productivity and anticipating future skills demand.
Key Responsibilities:
- Hold responsibility for the on-going control, management and improvement of IUS operational work delivery instructions, ensuring industrial colleague skills and competences are appropriately aligned for safe and effective delivery.
- Anticipate and maintain an adequate pipeline of appropriately skilled industrial colleagues whilst actively driving the career progression of colleagues.
- Drive continuous improvement in workstream productivity and optimise the utilisation of the industrial team through effective programming and allocation of resources to workstreams and reactive (fault) activities.
- Ensure timely allocation of appropriately skilled industrial resource, working across all of IUS’ workstream areas as needed, to enable the successful delivery of all agreed programmes of work, achieving operational and customer service performance targets.
- Set and uphold performance expectations and standards of behaviour of colleagues, recognising high performance and actively managing under-performance.
- Drive continuous improvement in operational excellence through proactive audit and assessment of delivery performance.
Key Competencies:
- Team working
- Customer service
- Decision making
- Time management
- Colleague development
- Planning and organising
- SHE awareness
Essential Qualifications & Experience:
- Experience of colleague management including colleague development and performance management of multiple colleagues
- Utility management experience (preferably HV & LV electric)
- GCSE’s and A levels in Maths and English
Desirable Qualifications & Experience:
- HNC (or equivalent) in Engineering
- Degree in Engineering or Business
- Project Management qualifications (Prince2 etc.)
- IET registration (IEng/CEng)
Please submit a CV along with a covering letter and email to jobapplications@ius.co.uk
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EHV Senior Authorised Person (x2)
Wakefield or Middlesbrough
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Position Overview:
EHV Senior Authorised Persons are required to ensure the delivery of a number of key client’s projects. Experience of EHV and HV project delivery, EHV and HV maintenance and protection work is essential. The successful applicant will predominately be working on private networks, carrying out maintenance and protection works to the customer’s specifications.
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the delivery of all EHV projects, maintenance and protection works.
- Issuing of safety documents on DNO and private network EHV and HV OHL & UG networks.
- Switching on DNO and private network EHV and HV OHL & UG networks.
- IUS standby cover.
Key Competencies:
- Team working
- Customer service
- Time management
- Planning and organisation
- Decision making
- Commercial awareness
- SHEQ knowledge
Essential Qualifications & Experience:
- HNC or equivalent in Electrical Engineering
- Previous experience as an HV OHL & UG SAP
- Previous experience on HV DNO and private networks
- Senior authorisation up to and including 66kV
- Minimum 5 years Electrical experience of Distribution systems at 11 – 132kV
- Minimum 2 years switching experience
- Full UK driving license
Desirable Qualifications & Experience:
- Degree or equivalent in Electrical Engineering
- Previous experience as an HV/EHV OHL & UG SAP
- Previous experience on HV/EHV DNO and private networks
- IET registration (IEng/CEng)
- Senior authorisation up to and including 132kV
- Commercial and operational responsibilities
Please submit a CV along with a covering letter and email to jobapplications@ius.co.uk
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Senior Authorised Person
Wakefield or Middlesbrough
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Position Overview:
A Senior Authorised Person is required to carry out HV DNO and private network switching, issuing of safety documentation and setting Industrial colleagues to work to facilitate the progression of inspection, maintenance and construction works.
Key Responsibilities:
- Issuing of safety documents on DNO and private network HV OHL & UG networks
- Switching on DNO and private network HV OHL & UG networks
- Plan and deliver NPg HV works
- Plan and deliver private network HV works
- IUS standby cover
Key Competencies:
- Team working
- Customer service
- Time management
- Planning and organisation
- Decision making
- Commercial awareness
- SHEQ knowledge
Essential Qualifications & Experience:
- HNC or equivalent in Electrical Engineering
- Previous experience as an HV OHL & UG SAP
- Previous experience on HV DNO and private networks
- Full UK driving license
Desirable Qualifications & Experience:
- Degree or equivalent in Electrical Engineering
- Previous experience on HV/EHV DNO and private networks
- IET registration (IEng/CEng)
- Commercial and operational responsibilities
Please submit a CV along with a covering letter and email to jobapplications@ius.co.uk
