Position:

IUS is currently in search of a Tendering and Estimating Electrical Engineer to provide accurate and efficient cost estimates for projects located mainly within the UK. 

Reporting into the Tendering and Estimating Manager, the main responsibilities of this role will be to produce tenders, quotations and secure orders associated with all IUS workstreams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ability to analyse and interpret detailed clients’ requests, drawings and/or specifications.
• Identify valued engineered solutions.
• Develop accurate and timely estimates, produce clear and detailed quotations.
• Attend pre- and post-tender bid meetings with clients and/or their representatives.
• Work under deadline pressures in an efficient, composed, and calm manner.
• Ability to develop build good working relationships with clients.
• Identify and develop new customers.
• Identify new supplier’s and contractors to improve safety, performance and profit.
• Able to work across all IUS work streams.

These are the key activities and not a comprehensive list of all duties that you will be expected to carry out.  You will need to be flexible and carry out work in other areas as workload and business change dictates.

Key Competencies:

The ideal candidate will be a confident and self-motivated individual with the ability to be innovative whilst still being able to comply with IUS policies and procedures:

• Able to manage situations when workload presents conflicting demands on time availability, demonstrating an ability to effectively prioritise and schedule.
• Develop and select effective solutions to problems and to manage risk.
• Communicate facts, ideas and proposals to others in an effective and persuasive manner.
• Correspond and negotiate with clients, suppliers, contractors and colleagues
• Apply Safety, Health and Environmental and Welfare policies and procedures.
• Work with others to develop their knowledge and skills.
• Prioritise and manage personal workload and deliver tasks to time and quality requirements.
• Deliver efficient and effective customer service.

Essential Qualifications & Experience:

• HNC (or equivalent) in Electrical & Electronic Engineering
• Knowledge of LV, HV & EHV distribution networks and protection systems
• Civil Engineering/Utilities experience
• Commercial awareness
• Full UK driving license

Desirable Qualifications & Experience:

• Degree in Electrical Engineering or similar
• Chartered Engineer status
• Customer and subcontractor negotiations skills
• HV & LV design
• CDM
• Experience in the utility construction industry with a complete understanding of gas, water and electric distribution infrastructures.

Please submit a CV along with a covering letter and email to jobapplications@ius.co.uk

Position Overview:

A Project Manager is required to be fully responsible for the safe and successful delivery of HV & EHV 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 HV/EHV 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.
• Ensure CDM compliance is achieved on all relevant projects.
• 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 margins 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 EHV/HV/LV systems

Essential Qualifications & Experience:

• ONC (or equivalent) in Electrical Engineering
• Project Management experience on EHV, 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

Position Overview:

A CAD Technician is required to assist the design team manager with the effective production of technical drawings in AutoCAD format for projects across a range of IUS workstreams including, multi utility, competitive connections, engineering contracting, high voltage customer services and major projects.

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

Position:

A Quantity Surveyor is required to control the commercial functions within the IUS business. The successful candidate will support the business and take responsibility for the end-to-end commercial process for initially one large major project; further enhance the businesses commercial strength and margins by improving commercial reporting accuracy, cash flow, reducing risk in change control and WIP.

Key Responsibilities:

• Commercial reporting including forecasting and wider project performance
• Work alongside operational team to produce accurate End Life Forecasts
• Manage client interface
• Risk management including change control and WIP management
• Contract Administration
• Provision of contractual advice to the project delivery team
• Aid in subcontract procurement and placement, ensuring best value for money and lowest risk achieved at all times
• Payment and debt management
• Post project appraisals and feedback loop to T & E team
• Attend internal and external (Client) meetings
• Final account compilation / submission

Key Competencies:

• Team work
• Contractual knowledge – NEC3 ECC knowledge is essential
• Verbal and written communication skills
• Negotiation skills
• Organised and efficient
• Customer service skills
• Ability to multitask and work well under pressure
• Civil Engineering / Utility work experience
• Excellent IT skills – with heavy focus on excel

Qualifications & Experience:

• HNC or above in Quantity Surveying or equivalent is essential
• Experience in the construction industry is essential
• Experience with scheme finance and commercial management is essential
• Ability to understand and respond to contract issues
• MRICS or MCIOB is desirable
• Experience in the utility construction industry with a complete understanding of gas, water and electric distribution infrastructures is desirable

Please email a CV along with a covering letter to jobapplications@ius.co.uk.

Position
As a Cable Jointer in this role, you will be involved in all aspects of work on DNO and our clients' underground cable networks. You will have working experience on both private and DNO electricity networks, preferably on both LV and HV experience. You should have a high regard for safety and a flexible approach to working hours, travel and work location is a must.

Key Responsibilities
•    Jointing and termination of high and low voltage cables
•    HV and LV cable jointing on all cable types including Waveform, Consac, PILC, SWA, CAS,       Polymeric and XLPE
•    Working on DNO/IDNO systems and private networks
•    Operations

Key Competencies 
•    Planning and organising
•    Customer service
•    Decision making
•    Be self-motivated with the ability to work to deadlines
•    Possess a good safety record and safety ethics
•    Be a team player 
•    Be an effective communicator
     Qualifications & Attributes
•    City & Guilds or equivalent is essential
•    Relevant experience working in a similar role is essential
•    DNO or IDNO  authorised is essential
•    Clean driving license

Please submit a CV along with a covering letter and email to jobapplications@ius.co.uk
 

Position
IUS is currently in search of a Tendering and Estimating Technician to provide accurate and efficient cost estimates mainly for Multi Utility projects located within the UK. This is a great opportunity for an enthusiastic individual who is looking to develop and grow within IUS.  

Reporting into the Tendering and Estimating Manager, the main responsibilities of this role will be to produce tenders, quotations and secure orders initially within Multi Utility. 

Key Responsibilities
•    Ability to analyse and interpret detailed clients’ requests, drawings and/or specifications. 
•    Produce high level electrical, gas and water designs to DNO & IDNO standards for the               purpose of producing accurate quotations.
•    Develop accurate and timely estimates, produce clear and detailed quotations.
•    Attend pre- and post-tender bid meetings with clients and/or their representatives.
•    Work under deadline pressures in an efficient, composed, and calm manner. 
•    Ability to develop build good working relationships with clients.
•    Identify and develop new customers.
•    Identify new supplier’s and contractors to improve safety, performance, and profit.
•    Able to develop the ability to work across all IUS work streams.

Key Competencies
The ideal candidate will be a confident and self-motivated individual with the ability to be innovative whilst complying with IUS policies and procedures:
•    Able to manage situations when workload presents conflicting demands on time availability,       demonstrating an ability to effectively prioritise and schedule.
•    Develop and select effective solutions to problems and to manage risk.
•    Communicate facts, ideas and proposals to others in an effective and persuasive manner.
•    Correspond and negotiate with clients, suppliers, contractors and colleagues
•    Apply Safety, Health and Environmental and Welfare policies and procedures.
•    Work with others to develop their knowledge and skills.
•    Prioritise and manage personal workload and deliver tasks to time and quality requirements.
•    Deliver excellent, efficient and effective customer service.

Essential Qualifications and Experience
•    ONC in Electrical & Electronic Engineering
•    Full UK Driving Licence

Desirable Qualifications and Experience
•   HNC in Electrical & Electronic Engineering
•   Experience in multi utility with gas, water or electric connections in the housing, commercial        and industrial sectors
•   HV and LV design and CDM sites
•   Familiarity with the regulatory environment

In house training and mentoring will be carried out at our Wakefield office

Please submit a CV along with a covering letter and email to jobapplications@ius.co.uk

Position Overview:
A Finance Assistant is required to provide accurate financial information and reports and undertake a full range of finance related duties. 

Key Responsibilities
•  Analysis & reporting against the NPg contracts providing commercial support to operations in     terms of project analysis / dispute for a workstream anticipated to deliver in excess of £9m         revenue in 2021.
•  Analysis and enhancement of charging for restoration work.
•  Overtime analysis / reporting – project scope to analyse working hours / overtime claims.
•  Productivity reporting, timesheet analysis.
•  Support Scotland operations, particularly reclaiming VAT on POC charges.
•  WIP HVCS / added value analysis for HVCS.
•  Assisting operations with key customer analysis and reports.
•  Assist with corporate plan production.
•  Cash management reporting to Treasury.
•  IUS Ireland financial reporting including regulatory/legislative obligations.
•  Production of regulatory reporting pack alongside monthly reconciliations Management               reporting to both senior and contract managers.
•  Cost variance analysis (operating/direct). Assist with external audit as directed.
•  Complete monthly WIP reconciliation Business and financial reports.
•  Prepare month end accruals and reconciliations.
•  Other ad hoc duties as directed by the Assistant Finance Manager.

Key Competencies 
• Understanding of management accounting process
• Strong MS office skills
• Excellent communication skills at all levels
• Knowledge of Core Financial Systems
• Commercial Experience
• Capable of working independently or as part of a team

Qualifications & Attributes
• A minimum of 5 GCSE’s or equivalent (Maths & English essential)
• AAT / CIMA membership is essential
• Part Qualified /qualified for Professional Accounting body is desirable
• Financial background would be desirable

Please submit a CV along with a covering letter and email to jobapplications@ius.co.uk.
 

Position Overview:

The Quality Assurance Advisor will form part of a small specialist HSQE team and be responsible for IUS quality assurance management, processes, and systems. The role shall identify end to end quality-related processes required to capture key activity milestones and implement process controls across IUS delivery activities to allow us to provide an industry leading service to our customers’, ensuring that their requirements are delivered effectively, accurately and ‘right, first time, every time’. 

The Quality Assurance Advisor will be required to develop suitable monitoring and measurement procedures to identify non-conformances, develop documented instructions to enhance and improve IUS’ current delivery models and to measure the compliance of our work against relevant standards and customer specifications. Therefore, ensuring that IUS continues to meet its customers’ expectations and complies with our ISO 9001:2015 certification. 

As part of this role, there will be a requirement to travel to all areas where IUS is delivering projects to inspect work delivery in line with developed quality assurance procedures. 

 Key Responsibilities:

•    Developing documented control processes to ensure customer standards, specifications             and requirements are met in accordance with ISO9001, enhancing the existing quality                 assurance documented system to reduce errors and or filings.  
•    Assist in the development a complete training plan across IUS to improve and standardize         training requirements across each business stream and reduce costs through better                   planning/more effective use of service providers. 
•    Progress, maintain and support the new IUS competency and skills matrix.
•    Auditing and inspecting all IUS activities and HSQE systems. 
•    Assist the HSQE Advisor/HSQE team to ensure that all HSQE targets and KPIs are                     achieved.
•    Ensure that IUS QA procedures are being adhered to, are fit for purpose, and assist in               reducing non-conformances and promote continued improvement and excellence.
•    Undertake audits and inspections in accordance with the audit programme as directed by            the HSQE Advisor and maintain the internal audit programme and associated HSQE                 documentation.
•    Attend and participate/contribute in meetings, presentations and deliver toolbox talks as             required.
•    Assist in all external audit support and administrative support where required within the               HSQE section. 

Key Competencies:

•    Procedure/process writing.
•    Identification of critical paths and resolution processes. 
•    Strong communication skills, written and verbal.
•    Customer focused.
•    Excellent attention to detail.
•    Good working knowledge of quality assurance systems, quality control flow charts and be           familiar with the respective IT software systems to produce them.
•    Capable of working independently and as part of a team.
•    Knowledge, experience in the utility industry.

Essential Qualifications & Experience:

•    Six Sigma (min green belt) or equivalent TQM/NVQ level RQA membership (willing to work         toward).
•    Audit experience.
•    Electrical/Gas/Water/Civil construction experience.
•    Experience in the construction and/or utility industry.
•    Develop and write QA procedures, flow charted instructions. 
•    Knowledge of OHSAS18001, ISO14001 and ISO9001
•    Full UK driving license.
•    Experience of developing and delivering presentations to managers, industrial and                     supervisory colleagues.
•    Internal audit experience.

Desirable Qualifications & Experience:

•    Six sigma techniques - quality assurance.
•    NEBOSH certificate or working toward NEBOSH General Certificate.
•    Environmental awareness. 
•    Auditor qualification.
•    Knowledge of other integrated management systems and their associated documented               processes and structures. 
 

Position
We require experienced Electrical Fitters to undertake installation, construction, maintenance, and repair of HV switchgear and automation equipment.

Key Responsibilities
•  HV inspections and maintenance of DNO, (i)DNO and private distribution network                       substations and associated equipment.
•  Installation of HV switchgear, transformers, actuators and RTU’s for DNO, (i)DNO and private     networks.
•  FPI replacements.
•  Substation earthing and auxiliary wiring.

Key Competencies
•    SHE
•    Customer service
•    Time management
•    Planning & organising
•    Team working
•    Decision making

Essential Qualifications & Experience
•  Completed apprenticeship or equivalent training for Electrical Fitting on HV distribution               networks.
•  City and Guilds in Electrical Principles or relevant electrical qualification. 
•  DNO / (i)DNO Qualifications, ie;
-    Access and Supervision in locations with level 3 Security
-    HV electrical authorisations for construction, installation and/or maintenance works.
•  Previous experience of HV Electrical Fitting works on DNO (i)DNO or private distribution             networks, to include, installation, construction and/or maintenance works.

Desirable Qualifications & Experience
•   IOSH working or supervising safely.
•  Previous experience of EHV Electrical Fitting works on DNO (i)DNO or private distribution         networks, including installation, construction and/or maintenance works.

Please submit a CV along with a covering letter and email to jobapplications@ius.co.uk.
 

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.

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

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