Position: Engineering Resources Manager

Location: Manchester (With Hybrid Working)

Salary Guide: £70,000 - £80,000 Plus Car/Allowance, Bonus & Package

Our client is a leading Engineering Contractor which operates throughout the UK delivering projects within the water sector. With over 1,200 staff working across eight regional centres, supporting ten long-term water sector frameworks, operating both as a sole contractor but also in joint ventures and alliances.

They have a new opportunity for an Engineering Resources Manager to ensure they have the right flow of trained engineering staff. Reporting to the UK Engineering Director you will be responsible for leading the ongoing enhancement of their engineering organisational capacity. This includes evaluating the resource capacity needs, developing a resource strategic plan, supporting recruitment, maximising internalisation, building connections, controlling and coordinating resources and performance.

Key responsibilities:

Lead resource demand forecasting with support from the Regional Engineering Leads for a 3 to 5 year lookahead that includes reports on workload visibility and stability.
Develop a strategic resourcing plan.
Support the launching and maintaining recruitment campaigns where required. Coordinate technical leads with authority to conduct first interviews.
Find innovative ways and lessons learnt to securing and retaining resources.
Orientate between design houses to maximise capabilities and sustainability of each entity.
Provide pipeline visibility and stability for each design house, understand their complimenting and additive services, whether core design services or specialist call off services.
Support the commercial approach and system alignment to their engagement.
Support Enterprise/JV's and support establishing ways to effective recruitment.
Support Leadership Teams maintaining trusting relationships with internal companies and external design houses.
Control and coordinate cross - regional resource allocation. This includes developing, communicating, and upholding the resource protocol.
Motivate and promote collaboration.
Ensure that the right work environment maximising effective supply and opportunity to deliver.
Ensure roles of internal assigned staff are clear. Help induct assigned staff into new frameworks.
Support ensuring engineering organograms are up to date.
Take point on establishing graduate and apprenticeship members for the following years intake.
Support the Engineering skills Group.
Deliver an annual review of salaries in the Engineering marketplace, promotions and spot bonuses.
Support Monitoring and analysing Engineering leaver interviews.
Identify measures to monitor attendance and performance and support their automation.

Skills, Experience and Qualifications:

Highly communicative, confident, assertive, and consultative.
Persistent, challenging, and supportive.
Open-minded and creative approaches to talent acquisition.
Data-driven decision maker.
Excellent leadership and coordination skills
Experience within Engineering and design
Experience of recruiting and great hiring practices
Experience in the development of new initiatives to increase efficiencies within a large organisation