The Role

We're looking for an Engineering Technical Manager to play a key role in shaping and maintaining our engineering standards, documentation, and best practices. You'll act as a technical bridge between the Head of Design Engineering, senior designers, and wider engineering teams, ensuring our design outputs are consistent, compliant, and continually improving.

This is a hands‑on technical leadership position, ideal for someone with strong solar PV engineering experience, excellent documentation skills, and a passion for quality and continuous improvement.

 

Key Responsibilities

Core Responsibilities

Maintain and manage engineering documentation, standards, and processes. Provide technical updates, guidance, and best‑practice feedback to the design team. Review and challenge unclear or incomplete information in design packs. Lead the distribution and communication of new or updated documentation. Support training programmes across the design team. Collaborate closely with the Quality, Commissioning & Maintenance (QCM) team and the Quality Engineer (QE). Act as the primary technical point of contact for senior designers. Create performance guarantee standards and review client-submitted versions. Attend site visits where required and approved. Perform random design spot checks and quality audits, providing written reports. Support attendance at industry events, technical exhibitions, and technology showcases. Help ensure the design team remains aligned with the latest industry developments, standards, and technologies.

 

About You

Essential Skills & Experience

Strong background in solar PV design, engineering, or technical management. Excellent understanding of engineering documentation, standards, and quality control. Ability to communicate complex technical information clearly and effectively. Confident in challenging design details and ensuring high standards are upheld. Strong organisational skills with experience supporting team training or technical workshops. Collaborative mindset with the ability to influence and support multi‑disciplinary teams. Excellent understanding of the BS 7671 and the IET best practice guide to Solar PV Excellent understanding of RC62, FM global, Loss prevention standards and the like.

 

Beneficial

Experience within a growing engineering or renewable energy department. Understanding of commissioning, O&M, or quality assurance activities. Familiarity with performance guarantee modelling or client technical documentation.

 

Required Qualifications

18th Edition QCF level 4 (e.g. City and guilds 2396 Design) QCF level 3 (e.g. electrical installations, testing and inspection; City and guilds 2391-52)

 

What We Offer

Opportunity to help shape technical standards within a rapidly growing solar engineering team. Career progression pathways within Mitie Power and Grid Access to industry training, events, and personal development support. A collaborative, forward‑thinking environment committed to excellence and innovation.