Senior Electrical Engineering Manager

Job Description

We’ve been keeping Britain warm for over 200 years. Today we power 1 in 3 homes in the UK – but supplying energy is just part of what we do.

We’re on a mission to make the UK’s homes greener and more energy efficient. With clever tech like Hive thermostats, heat pumps, solar panels and EV chargers, we’re making it cheaper and easier to reduce your home’s carbon-footprint and with our new PeakSave programme, we’re actively rewarding better energy use too.

Our nationwide team of 6,500 engineers are energy efficiency experts – offering practical ways to make homes more sustainable.

That’s why we need a brilliant Senior Electrical Engineering Manager to help us get to where we’re going. You’ll bring bags of energy, know-how and passion to our family of door-opening brands, including British Gas and Hive. And you’ll join a team who are just as focused delivering on fantastic results as you are.

This role is key to helping us deliver on our ambitions towards Net Zero. You will own the end-to-end technical journey for our domestic customers and colleagues and importantly you will be able to bring experience in electrical design and if possible, installations in EV’s and renewable domestic heating.

You will work closely with our commercial, field functions and HSE teams as a consultant to deliver a smooth streamlined industry leading business whilst motivating and leading a remote technical team.

Key accountabilities:

• Be the principle and accountable technical installation designer for electrical installations.

• Apply regulatory and industry standards.

• Align technical journeys to commercial goals.

• Lead & motivate a team of remote technical experts to deliver brilliant customer and colleague experiences.

• Be the voice for British Gas and drive technical innovation in renewable technology.

• Be an escalation point for in day technical queries and provide approvals.

• Work closely with commercial and product teams to advise on suitable hardware to meet customer, industry and company needs.

• Obsess about innovation, encouraging your team to be creative and challenge to make our offerings for our customers better and more efficient.

Who are we looking for?

• Significant people management experience, preferably of leading a large remote technical team.

• Electrical installations experience.

• Electrical design experience.

• Electrical testing, inspection and certifications.

• Electronic and Electrical Principles experience.

• Relevant standards & legislation experience, including the Electricity at Work Regulations, BS7671 and relevant CoP’s for the range of electrical work undertaken.

• Part P of the building regulations.

• City & Guilds 2360 Parts 1 & 2 (or equivalent).

• City & Guilds 2382 - B.S. 7671 Requirements for Electrical Installations (IET Wiring regulations (18th Edition)).

• City & Guilds 2391 - Periodic inspection and testing of electrical installations.

• Professional registration would be desirable (preferably with the Institute of Engineering & Technology).

We are proud to be recognised as a disability-confident employer. Our customers come from a variety of different backgrounds, and so do we. We hire great people from all walks of life, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. We will continue championing inclusivity while investing in our local communities to create a better, more sustainable world for everyone. We are incredibly proud to have been recognised by The Times for being one of the Top 50 Employers for Women.

Our people are the beating heart of our business. We are incredibly proud of our commitment to being FlexFirst. From childcare to furry friends, we listened to our people and understood that they work best when they are comfortable and have a flexible working model that suits their individual needs. We embrace the opportunity to give our colleagues a choice to work from anywhere whilst still ensuring they can connect and engage with their teams through office days, employee networks and virtual events.

We have tailored our well-being & benefits package around our employees as follows;
• Competitive salary and bonus potential
• Employee Energy Allowance at 15% of the government price cap
• Pension scheme
• Company Funded Healthcare Plan
• 25 days holiday allowance, plus public holidays, and the option to buy up to 5 additional days
• Excellent range of flexible benefits, including technology vouchers, electric car lease scheme & travel insurance

We are committed to creating a cleaner and greener future. And we’re making big changes to help us get there. That means cutting customers' emissions and our own to reach net zero. And because our people are the beating heart of our business, we will continue to champion inclusivity, develop future skills and invest in our local communities to create a better world for everyone. As part of our reforestation project with WeForest, for every new employee that joins our family, we plant trees in underprivileged areas in Tanzania to offer farming and wildlife economy opportunities for locals.

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At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. To build a more sustainable future, we need the best team – a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it!

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