Discipline Manager - Electrical Engineering

Discipline Manager - Electrical Engineering

KBR is a global provider of differentiated, professional services and technologies delivered across a wide government, defense, and industrial base. Drawing from its rich 100-year history and culture of innovation and mission focus, KBR creates sustainable value by combining engineering, technical, and scientific expertise with its full life cycle capabilities to help our clients meet their most pressing challenges today and into the future.

We deliver science, technology, and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 37,000 people worldwide with customers in more than 80 countries and operations in over 29 countries. KBR is proud to work with its customers across the globe to provide technology, value-added services, and long-term operations and maintenance services to ensure consistent delivery with predictable results. At KBR, We Deliver.

KBR is looking for a Discipline Manager, Electrical Engineering. The applicant should have wide ranging and extensive experience with an emphasis on excellence in team leadership. You will be responsible for managing the electrical engineering team, recruitment and ensuring projects are supported with resources, managing personnel and supporting projects.

The position is based at KBR's Leatherhead Campus.

Key Functions

• Responsible for all aspects of engineering activities undertaken in Electrical engineering on proposals, projects, and developments.
• Coordinates with other Discipline Department Managers to integrate technology activities with those of other technologies to meet company goals.
• Monitors and adjusts levels of personnel, levels of skills, and development of skills in the technology.
• Implements project quality control procedures in technical safety area.

Relationships

• Reports to the Manager of Engineering for Electrical engineering group support.
• Project Engineering Managers
• Coordinates directly Project Engineering Managers on staffing requirements and conduct technical audits.

Responsibilities

• Managing a team of electrical engineers and designers, you will advise, and contribute to the following:
• Ensure that adequate personnel are available to support projects and corporate requirements. This requires forward planning for staff personnel.
• Assist staff with setting goals and objectives and help provide opportunities for them to fulfil their career development. Support staff through mentoring and coaching.
• Responsibility for all aspects of engineering activities undertaken within electrical engineering on proposals and projects.
• Participate in the resolution of requests for correction or preventive action on projects.
• Lead corporate electrical development initiatives and assign resources to produce measurable outcomes.
• Ensure the continued development and application of KBR technology, execution methods, and procedures for projects.
• Committed to building good relationships with other KBR operating centres to ensure a ONE KBR project execution is successful.

Skills / Experience:

Essential

• Background should show a progression in roles from within the electrical group into a leadership position.
• Developing presentations and experience communicating with clients, personnel, and professional institutions.
• Experience communicating across a multi-discipline team and across different offices.
• Experience of delivery on conceptual, pre-FEED, FEED, and/or EPC projects.
• Good communication skills to encourage and empower others.
• Have an understanding of electrical safety requirements, international standards, and implications on design.
• Must be able to drive quality within the electrical team and ensure high standards are met.
• Subject matter expert skills in one area of electrical engineering

Desirable

• Experience managing a large team and understanding how to manage personnel.
• Experience training/mentoring younger engineers either informally or through a formal training scheme.
• Chartered Engineer from a professional institution in UK (or equivalent)

Qualifications:

• BSc / BENG degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
• A relevant number of years experience working with a major EPC contractor or operator.

When you become part of the KBR team, your opportunities are endless. Through collaboration with our customers, we're defining tomorrow's challenges, then providing the solutions and services to overcome those challenges, always maintaining our commitment to total safety and reliability.

At KBR, we partner with government and industry clients to provide purposeful and comprehensive solutions with an emphasis on efficiency and safety. With a full portfolio of services, proprietary technologies, and expertise, our employees are ready to handle projects and missions throughout their entire lifecycle, from planning and design to sustainability and maintenance. Whether at the bottom of the ocean or in outer space, our clients trust us to deliver the impossible on a daily basis.

Working at KBR means being rewarded for your contributions. In addition to competitive benefits and professional development, our people are empowered to use all their potential, creating meaningful change for themselves and our clients. We attract the best minds in the world because our expertise thrives on creativity, resourcefulness, and collaboration. That is how we supply our clients with cutting-edge solutions and services.

As the needs of the world change, we're ready to respond and guide the way forward with strategic, sustainable, and technological advancements grounded in more than a century of practical application and execution.