Communications • Conduct high level, complex negotiations with customers, suppliers and statutory bodies.
• Build positive relationships with external stakeholders such as local building regulations officers, local technical colleges, universities, HM Forces liaison for retiring service personnel, and schools.
• Manage conflicting priorities and agendas of a diverse range of stakeholders which will require persuasion, negotiation and the ability to communicate with clarity on highly technical subjects. Use influence and complex stakeholder management skills at all levels to achieve role objectives.
• Provide complex technical information orally, electronically, in writing in a range of formats from service specifications to business cases and presentations.
• Provide and receive highly complex and sensitive information; translating highly complex technical information to a wide audience.
• Use highly developed interpersonal skills, on occasion within a hostile or emotive atmosphere.
• Communicate, influence and collaborate with a wide range of senior leaders on a wide range of issues; including Site Directors and other senior colleagues to ensure and effective and efficient provision of services.
• Ensure that effective two-way communication exists at all levels, encourage feedback and the generation of good ideas, creating a strong sense of common purpose and team work.
Financial management • Support Site Directors in the management of engineering budgets (revenue and backlog), and in the preparation of financial projections for bids for new services and costing of service requirements.
• Provide a high level of input and challenge to business plans, including corrective plans, where relevant.
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Director of Engineering
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