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
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.
 

Business Development – Salesperson

Base location: Middlesbrough or Wakefield 
Competitive salary with bonus potential, pension + car allowance/company car

Integrated Utility Services (IUS) aims to be the UK's leading provider of power infrastructure for the public and private sectors. As a subsidiary of Northern Powergrid, IUS have built an outstanding reputation on the solid foundations of delivery excellence, whilst maintaining competitiveness in all utility and private infrastructure sectors.

As a business we provide expertise throughout the engineering contracting and utilities sectors. We carry out project works from inception, design, procurement and construction, through to testing & commissioning and energisation. We also seek on-going substation inspection and maintenance activity.  We need you to find the opportunities that will substantially increase our forward order book. 

IUS is an organisation, which rewards hard work, dedication and commitment. You will work in a positive environment which recognizes your valued contribution. 

The Role:

An opportunity to join IUS in a dynamic sales role, contributing to the success of one of the leading electrical contracting organisations in the UK.  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.

This role will primarily cover the North East and Yorkshire but the geographical extent of the role can encompass the whole of the UK, as and when required. You will be based in either head office in Wakefield or Middlesbrough. The role allows a level of automation and will challenge you to achieve your goals and targets in a highly motivated business development team. 

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 
•    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
•    Support the production of  marketing 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 and presenting information
•    Technical knowledge of IUS’ services

Qualifications & Attributes:
•    Driven and motivated to achieve sales;
•    Good standard of education – minimum of 5 GCSE’s (or equivalent) including Math’s and           English is essential
•    Driving license is essential
•    Experience of sales activities or electrical industry knowledge is essential
•    Appropriate sales/marketing qualification is desirable
•    Relevant electrical qualification is desirable
•    Experience of sales roles in the high voltage electrical industry is desirable
 

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:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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