Total 14 Art / Design / Entertainment job vacancies in Ellesmere Port, CH65 4AA

What skills and experience we're looking for

Who we’re looking for

We’re looking for a Deputy Director of Learning in Art with a proven track record of success in improving standards and raising pupil outcomes. We want to hear from talented middle leaders looking to extend their experience, and outstanding, ambitious teachers seeking their first middle leadership post.

As an experienced teacher, you will develop an exciting curriculum that suits every type of learner and have the resolve to make a real difference to the lives of our young people. The successful candidate will be a committed team player with excellent organisational and motivational skills.

You will be able to demonstrate the ability to lead a successful faculty drawing on your extensive teaching and leadership experience. As a Star middle leader, you’ll join the Star Academies family, a high-performing and supportive network of primary and secondary schools with some of the best leaders in education.

You will have:

• A degree-level qualification and Qualified Teacher Status.
• The ability to teach to GCSE standard.
• The ability to coach and motivate colleagues to achieve individual and collective targets.
• Experience of sustained delivery of outstanding attainment and achievement.
• Experience of innovation and creativity to engage, enthuse and progress learners.

What the school offers its staff

About Eden Girls' School, Slough

Eden Girls’ School, Slough is a Muslim faith-based secondary school for 11 to 18 year old girls, which welcomes pupils from all faiths and none. We opened in 2015 and, like all Star schools, we have a leadership specialism. We are extremely proud to be one of the highest performing schools in the country, with a Progress 8 score of +1.19 for our GCSE results. Our Ofsted grading remains ‘Outstanding’ following our second inspection in February 2024.

We have an exemplary reputation for excellence in every aspect of school life. We provide a knowledge-based academic curriculum alongside a rich and diverse leadership programme that grows character and inspires charitable and social action. Our pursuit of educational excellence is based upon our fundamental belief that every pupil has the capacity to become a successful and inspirational leader.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Join us as a Business Design & Solutions Lead

• This is a high profile role in the Operations Centre of Excellence that will see you supporting the ongoing definition of the bank wide Operations strategy alongside key business stakeholders
• We’ll look to you to define and mobilise key components of the Operations strategy in partnership with senior Operations leaders and key supporting functions such as Technology and D&A
• You'll have a real opportunity to add value and deliver lasting results in this role, while building meaningful relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders

What you'll do

As a Business Design & Solutions Lead, you’ll play a leading role in driving innovation across Operations and identifying and designing new opportunities that will allow us to execute and deliver on the five year strategic vision for Operations. You’ll make sure that all solutions align to the bank’s strategy and the franchise and functions’ five year plans.

You’ll create, shape, define and own pan-operations and individual franchise opportunities that support delivery of the Operations five year strategic plan and develop the associated business case, securing sign-off and approval of the same from all major stakeholders.

More specifically, you’ll:

• Work closely with key stakeholders across the business to create, shape, define and own pan-operations and individual franchise opportunities
• Make sure that all designs are compliant with all the appropriate governance and policies and in line with the bank’s risk management appetite
• Manage the programme design and associated working groups and project teams to provide strategic direction and leadership
• Understand the impact and associated risks that other programmes may have and manage any associated dependencies

The skills you'll need

To thrive in this role, you’ll need a background in business design and have experience of delivering strategic programmes that support a business strategy and its growth agenda. You’ll have a track record of designing and delivering end-to-end innovative designs and solutions within Operations. You’ll be a trusted partner to senior stakeholders and have the ability to influence them with your ideas and concepts and secure the buy-in of all key decision makers.

In addition, you’ll need to be resilient, creative and free thinking and be prepared to challenge status quo and the conventional ways of doing things. You’ll be comfortable in analysing data and operating in an environment with ambiguity and have sound decision making skills.

You’ll also demonstrate:

• Experience developing compelling strategies that are tangible and grounded
• Experience of working with senior stakeholders in the design, shaping and mobilisation of innovative solutions in an operational construct
• Familiarity with multiple data sources and the ability to leverage those data sources to create insight and inform, both strategy and execution
• Excellent stakeholder management and collaboration skills
• Critical thinking skills, enabling you to cut through complexity, and make sound decisions and recommendations that are carefully balanced against risk

Your new company
Your new company are a new, independent utilities infrastructure business formed from the division of a previously leading infrastructure service company. They design, build and maintain the UK's utilities infrastructure to help transform local communities for the better.
They are incredibly proud of their client base, including the likes of Severn Trent, United Utilities, Yorkshire Water, Scottish Water, Northern Powergrid and Scottish Power, providing them with an efficient, speedy and customer-focused engineering service.


Your new role
Your new role will see you joining the consultancy as a Civil Design Engineer, as either an experienced Project or Senior Engineer. You will join the dedicated Design and Construct teams, currently delivering an expanding workload for your clients on a number of D&C frameworks throughout the UK.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a multidisciplinary team on a wide variety of projects covering all aspects of Wastewater and Water networks, and treatment facilities through the project lifestyle from feasibility design through detailed design to construction.
The position will be based in the Warrington and will involve a mixture of hybrid working, with even more flexibility provided to candidate at a higher level. You will have the opportunity to work on both challenging and exciting projects of a technical nature designing excellent services and solutions for our wide client base by assisting the team in all relevant projects and activities to meet client objectives and needs. Working as part of a team, you will acquire a portfolio of technical knowledge and transferable skills that will give you a wide choice of careers options.

What you'll need to succeed


You will need to be degree qualified, and for more senior positions have professional qualifications with either the ICE or IStructE. Furthermore you should be able to demonstrate the following:

• Computer literate and conversant with MS Office suite and relevant engineering software packages
• Demonstrable experience in Water / Wastewater Engineering preferable
• Good written and oral communication and organisational skills and to produce reports in clear concise English
• Desire to develop existing skills and acquire new technical competences to enhance personal and team capability
• Proven ability to work within a team environment with a dedicated approach to meet project deadlines
• Client focused approach to service delivery
• Proven enthusiasm to embrace and participate in career development initiatives
• Full Driving Licence

What you'll get in return
You will be rewarded with a competitive salary up to £45,000 for Engineers £60,000 for Senior/Principals, all based on proven skills and UK experience. Hard work is celebrated and rewarded. It will be recognised that one size doesn't fit all so everyone has access to a variety of flexible benefits that work for you.


What you need to do now
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Join us as an Organisation & Workforce Design Consultant

• This is a high impact role in which you’ll provide subject matter expertise on our organisation and workforce design and skills enablement strategy, collaborating across the team to influence key business stakeholders
• You’ll consult with business leaders and our Goal and Shared Capability Teams within the People Domain on the design, implementation, and maintenance of our organisation and workforce to enable an efficient and effective customer focussed business
• This is an opportunity to drive tangible change while gaining valuable exposure across the People Domain and the wider bank

What you'll do

As an Organisation & Workforce Design Consultant, you’ll lead, support, and implement business specific workforce design projects. This will involve organisation, team, job, skills, and future workforce design, providing subject matter expertise.

You’ll provide independent oversight and challenge on organisation, future workforce, team, and job design, ensuring there is a full understanding and articulation of accountabilities and interdependencies. As such, you’ll ensure strategic design principles are delivered and you’ll contribute to the ongoing development and continuous improvement of workforce design methodology and internal capability.

There will also be the opportunity to leverage further specialist knowledge from within the team regarding organisation and strategic workforce design to support key stakeholders.

In addition to this, you may also:

• Design, create, or deliver the ‘one bank’ skills enablement strategy, framework, and guidance principles, liaising with key industry partners, thought leaders, and strategic partners to bring in outside thinking
• Utilise your design expertise of organisation and future workforce design to shape and steer experimentation in order to test and support future workforce design, partnering with experts across the People Domain and other stakeholders
• Contribute to our Senior Grade Calibration Panel as an active participant, sharing your point of view on proposed sizing
• Provide cover for our job architecture projects and job framework change process

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with experience using appropriate project and agile management tools and methodologies. Along with the ability to interpret data and identify trends and insights, you’ll have strong knowledge and experience of organisation design principles, methods, and practices.

We’re also looking for:

• Knowledge and experience of organisation and job design, job architecture, and skills framework principles and practices
• Effective consulting, communication, and stakeholder management skills
• Experience of managing change and the ambiguity and uncertainty that it can bring
• Knowledge of relevant legal policies, regulations, and risk management
• Experience of the banking industry, and of regulatory and commercial environments

MECHANICAL DESIGN ENGINEER

BOURNEMOUTH

£35,000 - £38,000 + TRAINING + BENEFITS

Due to a promotion within the team, my client are looking to add to their skilled design team with the addition of a Mechanical Design Engineer.

We are looking for an ambitious Mechanical Design Engineer. If you're a driven & highly motivated person wishing to craft out a successful and rewarding future in what is a truly unique environment, this could be the role for you. You will be working on a variety of Packaging Machinery equipment, which is manufactured and supplied to all parts of the globe.

THE ROLE:

• Preparing design briefs, detailed specifications and BOM's to meet customer requirements.
• Working on complex custom design projects using Solidworks. 2d and 3d model generation.
• Design and draughting using AutoCAD and Solidworks Software.
• Selecting appropriate materials, section sizes, and components.
• Regularly updating customers on progress.
• Working autonomously at times reporting back progress to internal stakeholders
• Work very closely with the Project Management Team to overcome any design challenges during project execution.

THE PERSON:

• 3 years experience as a Design engineer OR senior Draughtsperson.
• Degree or HND/HNC in mechanical engineering.
• Competent with both Solidworks and AutoCAD.
• Experience in design for manufacture.
• Happy to learn FEA and 3d structural stress analysis.

BENEFITS:

• 28 days holiday + Xmas shutdown
• Pension
• Training
• Life Assurance
• Wellbeing programme

Hunter Selection Limited is a recruitment consultancy with offices UK wide, specialising in permanent & contract roles within Engineering & Manufacturing, IT & Digital, Science & Technology and Service & Sales sectors.

Please note as we receive a high level of applications we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010.

For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.

If you are interested in this position please click 'apply'.

Hunter Selection Limited is a recruitment consultancy with offices UK wide, specialising in permanent & contract roles within Engineering & Manufacturing, IT & Digital, Science & Technology and Service & Sales sectors.

Please note as we receive a high level of applications we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010.

For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.

Job Role: Art Teacher

Start Date: September

Location: Birmingham

Pay: £120 to £200 per day

Are you looking for an exciting new career opportunity?

Do you enjoy developing young peoples' artistic styles?

Are you looking for a new challenge in a supportive and progressive school?

TeacherActive is proud to be working in partnership with an independent school with students aged 11 to 19 in the heart of Birmingham. This school provides a high standard of education that helps each student achieve their future goals.

This is a full-time position, with an immediate start date. The school is looking to interview potential candidates immediately.

If successful you would be working across KS3 to KS5 delivering Art & Design and supporting in other creative subjects.

Your role is to help students achieve excellent results in the subject, whilst following schemes of learning. Experience teaching Photography, and ability to cover Design and Technology at Key Stage 3 is highly desirable but not essential.

The Senior Leadership Team will offer excellent support and will provide an encouraging and supportive environment.

TeacherActive has a long-standing relationship with the school and a proven record in delivering the right candidate for each role.

The ideal Art teacher should have the following:

• QTS
• Experience supporting KS3/Key Stage 3 to KS5/Key Stage 5
• Create engaging and innovative lesson plans.
• Be prepared to plan and prepare work.
• Provide cover when/where needed.
• A calm and caring persona

TeacherActive also offers the following to the right teacher:

• An excellent ‘recommend a friend’ scheme – up to a £100 E-Amazon Voucher*
• A dedicated consultant who will support and advise you every step of the way.
• We will advise and offer you courses, resources, and training opportunities that arise.
• Amazing rates of pay

We build great relationships with our schools and support staff so we can find the best placements for you.

All our supply staff are paid on a PAYE basis, so you can rest assured that you are paying the right level of Tax and National Insurance and there is no messing around with admin charges coming out of your hard-earned cash.

*Terms apply*

If you feel like you are the right teacher, please click apply or contact Alex on 0121 200 3224 or email alex.thacker@teacheractive.com

All applicants will be contacted to discuss suitability and then invited to register with TeacherActive.



Registration involves an enhanced DBS check, ID checks and will require you to supply good professional references. We pride ourselves on excellent service. We can provide a wide range of opportunities in schools and other educational institutions, with good rates of pay, at times to suit your needs.



Regular external audits have shown repeatedly that our standards are exceptional. We are passionate about finding the right staff for each environment.

TeacherActive is an equal opportunities employer, and operates as an Employment Business in providing temporary or contract job-seeking services.

Electrical Design Engineer

Port Talbot

Up to £35,000

4 day working week!!

Are you currently on the lookout for a varied, interesting and challenging Electrical Design Engineering position with one of Port Talbots leading manufacturers? Does the thought of a position with an international company that can offer excellent ongoing training and career development appeal to you? Do you want to be part of a strong team with a family feel?

If so, please read on.

As a Electrical Design Engineer you will be

• Reverse engineer customer information/products.
• Develop and revise wiring harness assembly and installation drawings.
• Electrical component identification and sourcing.
• Component and assembly design.
• Bill of material creation and assembly costing.
• Prepare/check documentation as necessary to satisfy customer, company, and regulatory requirements.
• Produce samples during NPI process.
• Work to quickly resolve electrical manufacturing and installation problems.

Experience:

• Understanding of Auto Cad (Essential).
• Experienced in 3D Modelling & Design (Preferable).
• Competent with Microsoft Office skills (Preferable).
• Knowledge of IPC standards/Electrical Wiring (Preferable).
• Experience of PPAP submissions and DFMA (Preferable).
• PCB Design (Basics).

his is a varied and rewarding role with an industry leader that will offer an excellent working environment, genuine opportunities for growth and progression as well as a competitive salary and benefits.

For immediate consideration, please forward your CV to Jodie at Vibe Recruit today.

Vibe Recruit is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Job Description

0.4FTE Teacher of Art & Design (temp/part time) REF: ECOD/P03346

Salary: Main Grade £38,655 - £48,516

Location: St Stephen’s HS, Port Glasgow

Hours: 14 hours per week

Duration: temp till 27.6.24

PLEASE NOTE: The start date for this position is August 2024.

Inverclyde Council offers a wide range of benefits to employees including flexible working opportunities, attractive pension schemes, a Buy and Bank Annual Leave Scheme, career development and health and wellbeing support.

You can find out more in our Employee Benefits Booklet which is available on our website Employee Benefits - Inverclyde Council

Important Applicant Information:

• Please read the Essential Applicant Information details prior to submitting your application.

• Please note that if you apply via this website it is important that you regularly check your emails following your application submission. All further communication regarding your application, including any invite to interview and, if relevant, details of any formal offer/contract, will be done by email. You should ensure that your email is set up to receive emails from MYJOBSCOTLAND and Inverclyde Council, and that they are not filtered into any JUNK/SPAM folders.

• Inverclyde Council is an accredited Living Wage Employer paying the Living Wage Rate where required. Please click the link to `Essential Applicant Information’ above for more information.

• Inverclyde Council is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcomes applications from all members of the community. We encourage applicants from underrepresented groups including LGBT people, Black and minority ethnic people and disabled people. We also recognise that women are underrepresented at some pay grades.

Vetting by Disclosure Scotland

If you work in regulated work (children and/or protected adults) you will be subject to obtaining a satisfactory PVG

GTCS

You will be required to be registered with the GTCS. You are required to obtain and maintain registration including paying any fees. Please note, teachers in their probationary year are welcome to apply for temporary, un-promoted vacancies although would be paid at the probationer rate of pay (Main Grade Scale Point 0) at £31,584 per year (pro-rata, if applicable).

RC Approval

Guidance for teachers seeking Approval to teach in a Catholic school if applicable.

If applicable the successful candidate will require to be approved by the Roman Catholic Church, in line with Section 21 (A) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980. Forms from the Scottish Catholic Education Service at: http://www.sces.uk.com/approval.html

Head Teacher Reports

Candidates successful at interview need to download and print the appropriate Report. You need to complete the applicant details section and sign the form and then pass to your current HT to complete the assessment sections and sign the form. The form then needs to be sent to Human Resources by email to interview.support@inverclyde.gov.uk and cc the recruiting HT into the email.

Please find below the three types of reports (unpromoted, promoted and senior promoted).
The forms can be downloaded at http://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/jobs-and-careers/apply-for-a-job/preferred-candidate-information/safe-recruitment/employment-references

Further Assistance

Alternative application packs can be requested in other formats for example, Large Print, Braille and Audio. To request an alternative application pack or require further assistance to attend and/or participate in an interview, please contact the HR Recruitment Team on 01475 712740 or email Human Resources at: Human.Resources@inverclyde.gov.uk.

Armed Forces Personnel/Reservists

Inverclyde Council welcomes applications from former armed forces personnel / reservists. Many of the skills picked up during your military career could be transferred directly into a role with local government.

Disability Confident

We are a Disability Confident Leader and offer a guaranteed interview to applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and who meet the essential criteria for the job.

Flexible Working

Inverclyde Council recognises the mutual benefits of having a flexible, effective workforce to deliver the best services to our community, whilst enabling employees to balance their personal, home and work responsibilities more effectively, with a view to achieving greater job satisfaction, motivation, morale and productivity.

Employees are able to apply for a range of options including Part-Time Working, Job share, Compressed Hours, Homeworker, Hybrid Working and Flexible Retirement. More detail can be found in the Flexible Working Policy, linked in the download section of our Employee Benefits web page.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

The Tradewind Recruitment team in Cheshire West & Chester are seeking a Design and Technology teacher from Easter 2024 through until October 2024.

We are working with a large secondary school in Ellesmere Port who are seeking an experienced and professional Design and Technology teacher for a long-term post starting after Easter that will run into the new academic year.

The role is covering a full-time timetable with school hours of 8:30am to 3:30pm starting on the 15th April and will continue through until October half term at a minimum. This role is open to both ECT's and UPS teachers that think this role would be for them.

The ideal candidate must have a realo passion for teaching Design and Technology across both KS3 and KS4, can inspire and motivate individuals and contribute positively to the school.

To be considered for this role, we will need -
- Proof of Right to Work, this could be your Passport or Birth Certificate.
- A CV that covers 10 years of education or employment.
- A fully enhanced DBS certificate or be willing to process one with us. (We will refund the cost of the DBS)
- Full Qualified Teaching Status in the UK with specialism in Design & Technology.

The benefits of registering with Tradewind -
- Your income matters: we will always seek to get you the highest rate of pay and will provide you with the best possible advice
- Your development matters: we offer our people free access to over 2,500 CPD courses, webinars and resources via the incredible National College
- Your flexibility matters: we tailor the working week to you - daily supply, long-term contracts and permanent positions available local to you
- Your wellbeing matters: we put people at the heart of everything we do and are proudly a Sunday Times Top 100 employer for 4 years running
- We pride ourselves on our exceptional service to our candidates and are proudly an Equal Opportunities Employer

If you are interested in this Design & Technology Teacher role in Ellesmere Port, the click 'Apply Now'.

Electrical Design Engineer

Port Talbot

Up to £35,000

4 day working week!!

Are you currently on the lookout for a varied, interesting and challenging Electrical Design Engineering position with one of Port Talbots leading manufacturers? Does the thought of a position with an international company that can offer excellent ongoing training and career development appeal to you? Do you want to be part of a strong team with a family feel?

If so, please read on.

As a Electrical Design Engineer you will be

• Reverse engineer customer information/products.
• Develop and revise wiring harness assembly and installation drawings.
• Electrical component identification and sourcing.
• Component and assembly design.
• Bill of material creation and assembly costing.
• Prepare/check documentation as necessary to satisfy customer, company, and regulatory requirements.
• Produce samples during NPI process.
• Work to quickly resolve electrical manufacturing and installation problems.

Experience:

• Understanding of Auto Cad (Essential).
• Experienced in 3D Modelling & Design (Preferable).
• Competent with Microsoft Office skills (Preferable).
• Knowledge of IPC standards/Electrical Wiring (Preferable).
• Experience of PPAP submissions and DFMA (Preferable).
• PCB Design (Basics).

his is a varied and rewarding role with an industry leader that will offer an excellent working environment, genuine opportunities for growth and progression as well as a competitive salary and benefits.

For immediate consideration, please forward your CV to Jodie at Vibe Recruit today.

Vibe Recruit is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Job Role: Art Teacher

Start Date: Immediately

Location: Birmingham

Pay: £120 to £200 per day

Are you looking for an exciting new career opportunity?

Do you enjoy developing young peoples' artistic styles?

Are you looking for a new challenge in a supportive and progressive school?

TeacherActive is proud to be working in partnership with an independent school with students aged 11 to 19 in the heart of Birmingham. This school provides a high standard of education that helps each student achieve their future goals.

This is a full-time position, with an immediate start date. The school is looking to interview potential candidates immediately.

If successful you would be working across KS3 to KS5 delivering Art & Design and supporting in other creative subjects.

Your role is to help students achieve excellent results in the subject, whilst following schemes of learning. Experience teaching Photography, and ability to cover Design and Technology at Key Stage 3 is highly desirable but not essential.

The Senior Leadership Team will offer excellent support and will provide an encouraging and supportive environment.

TeacherActive has a long-standing relationship with the school and a proven record in delivering the right candidate for each role.

The ideal Art teacher should have the following:

• QTS
• Experience supporting KS3/Key Stage 3 to KS5/Key Stage 5
• Create engaging and innovative lesson plans.
• Be prepared to plan and prepare work.
• Provide cover when/where needed.
• A calm and caring persona

TeacherActive also offers the following to the right teacher:

• An excellent ‘recommend a friend’ scheme – up to a £100 E-Amazon Voucher*
• A dedicated consultant who will support and advise you every step of the way.
• We will advise and offer you courses, resources, and training opportunities that arise.
• Amazing rates of pay

We build great relationships with our schools and support staff so we can find the best placements for you.

All our supply staff are paid on a PAYE basis, so you can rest assured that you are paying the right level of Tax and National Insurance and there is no messing around with admin charges coming out of your hard-earned cash.

*Terms apply*

If you feel like you are the right teacher, please click apply or contact Nachma on 0121 200 3224 or email nachma.abdi@teacheractive.com.

All applicants will be contacted to discuss suitability and then invited to register with TeacherActive.



Registration involves an enhanced DBS check, ID checks and will require you to supply good professional references. We pride ourselves on excellent service. We can provide a wide range of opportunities in schools and other educational institutions, with good rates of pay, at times to suit your needs.



Regular external audits have shown repeatedly that our standards are exceptional. We are passionate about finding the right staff for each environment.

TeacherActive is an equal opportunities employer, and operates as an Employment Business in providing temporary or contract job-seeking services.

Electrical Design Manager - Hybrid - £120,000 per annum

Acorn by Synergie is looking for an Electrical Design Manager to join their client to lead electrical design for their battery energy storage and solar PV projects.

This is a great opportunity for a qualified individual to use their experience and creativity to work on HV electrical and ICP projects for a variety of renewable energy projects. The Electrical Design Manager will be responsible for leading electrical design, including equipment sizing and layout, system performance and operation parameter, outline design drawings, and programme of projects. Additionally, you will manage budgets and delivery, conduct feasibility studies, techno-economic analysis and energy modelling including EPC, PPA and EaaS across various renewables.

As Electrical Design Manager, your responsibilities will include:

* Reviewing electrical project requirements and developing electrical designs
* Sizing electrical equipment
* Managing a Technical Team
* Producing drawings and models using AutoCAD/Revit
* Monitoring budget and ensuring projects are completed within budget
* Ensuring project performance meets customer expectations
* Providing technical guidance during the installation process
* Creating electrical design reports
* Overseeing all aspects of commissioning
* Liaising with stakeholders including clients, project managers, and other professionals
* Leading energy modelling activities including energy performance certificates (EPCs), power purchase agreements (PPAs), and energy-as-a-service (EaaS)

To be successful in this role, you must have:

* A degree in Electrical Engineering. Achieved or or working towards chartered engineering status
* Excellent understanding of engineering principles associated with electrical design
* Demonstrated lead development skills including the ability to build project scopes and assess constructability of systems.
* Design management of battery energy storage projects
* Design management of transmission connected electrical projects (275kV - 400kV
* Design management of large scale solar projects.

Acorn by Synergie acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Join us as Head of Data Architecture

• We’ll look to you to lead our data and analytics architecture teams to define and then influence the future of Data Architecture and Technology in the bank, including our ambitions as we become cloud first
• Working in collaboration with business and technology leaders across the bank, you’ll drive direction, mobilise plans and guide all business and technology data architecture roadmaps to be robust, coherent, understood and well implemented
• This is an opportunity to explore your leadership potential and bring a purpose-led focus to your work in this highly influential role

What you'll do

As Head of Data Architecture, you’ll be influencing the development of business strategies at a bank-wide level, while identifying transformational opportunities for the businesses and technology areas associated with both new and existing technologies.

You’ll be leading and managing the Data and Analytics Strategy and Architecture for the bank, ensuring the vision, strategy and architecture roadmaps required to deliver propositions for our customers.

Your top priorities will include:

• Defining and communicating the current, resultant and target states architecture for the assigned scope, making sure that the architecture links to, and is informed by, the overall organisational strategy and architecture
• Translating architecture roadmaps into packages of work that allow frequent incremental delivery of value to be included in the product backlog
• Defining, creating and maintaining architecture models, roadmaps, standards and outcomes, for the assigned scope, using architecture strategies to ensure alignment to adjacent and higher level models
• Championing a One Bank mindset and driving towards this through continuous optimisation and simplification of the architecture, partnering across business and technology to make sure that capabilities are shared and re-used
• Owning the operating model and practice for the discipline of architecture in the bank, setting standards for excellence both in the creation of the architecture and in building the capability of our architect population

The skills you'll need

To make an impact with us, your knowledge, experience and leadership qualities will be key. That’s why we’re looking for a leader with experience of developing, syndicating and communicating architectures, designs and proposals for action. You’ll also need the proven ability to translate architectures into meaningful and actionable plans.

In addition, you’ll bring:

• The ability to collaborate and manage stakeholders
• An understanding of industry architecture frameworks
• Experience of working with business solution vendors, technology vendors and products within the market
• A background in systems development change life cycles, best practices and approaches

EDF Energy is a core part of the EDF Group, one of the largest energy companies in Europe with key business operations in the UK, France, Italy and Belgium. We're the UK’s largest producer of low-carbon electricity, the biggest supplier of electricity by volume in Great Britain, the largest supplier to British businesses and we employ more than 13,000 people. We operate nuclear, coal and gas power stations, wind farms, and combined heat & power plants. We have a focus on safe, dependable energy generation and an ethos of service excellence. We are playing a leading role in new nuclear build in the UK to secure a bright future for the combined business and its employees.
Are you interested in playing a key role in defining the future of digital for a leading energy provider? As the Nuclear IT Enterprise Architect, this is a great opportunity to develop and define delivery of EDF’s Information and Technology future. EDF Nuclear Operations is going though exciting changes, redefining our business and expanding into new areas of energy generation.

To support this business transformation we are looking to recruit an Enterprise Architect to support and guide the business transformation by developing modern, innovative digital services to delight our business and lead the way in the digital evolution.
The Opportunity

We have a growing Enterprise and Solution Architecture team that are defining the future of the Nuclear Operations digital services. This is an exciting time to join and will gives the opportunity to help shape and define the future of our digital capabilities as our business transforms and grows.

The Nuclear Operations Enterprise Architect will be responsible for the definition and development of the IT and digital strategy and will bring creative, innovative and inspirational thought leadership to our digital future. This is a leadership role and our ideal candidate will be able to lead the digital agenda from the front, influencing our business to adopt digital services that create an amazing future. You will be comfortable developing strategies, supporting the definition and delivery of Nuclear Operations wide policies, principles, standards and best practice that will improve the Nuclear Operations business. You will be comfortable defining how innovative technologies can benefit our business and will be adept at bring a wide range of stakeholders on the digital journey.

As an Enterprise Architect, you will be part of an Enterprise and Solutions Architecture team defining the technology landscape, driving innovation and ensuring the future digital capabilities are transforming how our business works and operates. Our business is driven by data and is at the heart of our digital strategy. We are looking to strengthen our team in this domain and so an Information focused Enterprise Architect is a priority to support our team development.

This role is based at Gloucester Business Park, but will allow for some home and office working.

Pay, benefits and culture

We offer a competitive salary, bonus and pension scheme with terms and conditions covered by the EDF Nuclear Generation Personal Contract. The starting salary will be dependent on your existing salary, competence, experience and qualifications.

At EDF, everyone’s welcome. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone has a voice and where you feel confident being yourself. We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility. We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need.We’ll value the difference you bring and offer opportunities for you to thrive and succeed.

What you’ll be doing

In this role, your primary accountabilities will include:


- Play a significant part in the documentation and continual refresh of the Nuclear Operations IT strategy
- aligning IT to business capabilities. Work with key business stakeholders to align technology investments and innovation to the key business objectives and drivers.
- Driving a data centric strategy to transform our business bringing thought leadership and strategic direction to our growing data and analytics capabilities.
- Bring Information Architecture best practice to our design and architecture process
- Create exciting and engaging strategic plans, views and strategies which will be used to drive investment and change within our business
- Ensure the organisation's business processes and information flows are correctly modelled, and that the information architecture to support these is put in place, maintained up to date, aligned to the data management lifecycle and communicated to all levels of management.
- Build the Information Model to ensure it underpins the information management strategy and maximises value for Nuclear Operations;

- Where information is mastered,
- The interactions and flows of key information assets,
- How the provenance of information can be determined and demonstrated,
- Who owns information and hence the classification of the data,
- Where the greatest challenges lie, in terms of a single version of the truth.


- Support and guide Business Architects and Solution Architects to provide guidance, proposals and solution options that solve business challenges and needs
- Understand the current and future information needs of the business and translate these into services to be delivered
- Engage with EDF Group, Enterprise IT and a wide range of IT delivery partners to align the Nuclear Operations IT Strategies to the wider EDF Technology strategies and to ensure alignment to market trends
- Collaborate with the wider EDF UK and EDF Group Architecture community to share knowledge and best practice.
- In partnership with key stakeholders, across the business and IT, the Nuclear Operations Enterprise Architect will develop, maintain and support elements of the Nuclear Operations IT principles, standards and good practice documents i.e. the design guidance and patterns against which Nuclear Operations will design and deliver all IT solutions.
- Take the lead in managing Integration Governance within Nuclear Operations and ensuring common and consistent approaches are taken. They will also define the views and information in the Enterprise Architecture repository and where necessary populate this information.
- Act as a champion for IT Innovation within the Nuclear Operations business, effectively defining, owning and delivering the innovation agenda based on the Nuclear Operations IT and business strategies and focussing efforts when they can yield most benefit and focussing on establishing strong business relationships to facilitate this.
- Act as a point of reference for Integration to the Nuclear Operations IS Community and wider EDF Energy IT community; in particular, provide guidance on relevant architecture matters, new technology, industry trends and associated business enablers that will support business strategy.
- Manage, mentor and coach architects and designers as required.
- Provide technical assurance for large projects/programmes to ensure that solutions will meet the specified requirements. Where appropriate direct conceptual and logical designs and oversee detailed designs from a Nuclear Operations Enterprise Architecture point of view, i.e. ensure that designs comply with standards, IT strategy, and architectural blueprints.
- Engage at executive and senior leadership levels within Nuclear Operations to provide thought leadership and strategic guidance regarding IT strategy to ensure it can best support EDF Energy’s Nuclear Operations business.


Who you are

The ideal candidate will be educated to degree level or equivalent and/or be able to demonstrate significant experience in the energy or relevant sector. Preferably, you will have architectural design experience with appropriate training and/or qualification in solution design. You will be TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework) qualified or aware. This role demands both a thorough and broad knowledge of technologies and digital services but also real creative flair. The role requires that you are able to create innovative, engaging and compelling narratives around the future of digital in our organisation. The ability to communicate and enthuse stakeholders in the adoption of digital services is critical. Ideally, we are looking for candidates who have real world experience of establishing best practice EA services in to a forward thinking and transforming digital business. The role will offer the opportunity to establish a future and strategic EA practice so having knowledge and experience in this area will be essential.

This role is a great development opportunity so ideally you will possess some or all of these attributes; A broad, strategic outlook, with ability to demonstrate very good communication skills, capable of leading discussion on design issues, and delivering sound decisions, based upon consensus and the application of standards and best practise. We’re looking for strategic thinkers with experience of leadership within a complex organisation, and establishing technical credibility from the outset and creativity in the development of new approaches.

You should have sensitivity to business constraints, ambitions and operational objectives in area of assignment, experience of team working and co-operation and capable of delivering relevant project documentation, in line with standards. An excellent awareness of IT technology pertinent to their domain and interest in maintaining that awareness is ideal. The ability to work under pressure is key.

Closing date for applications: 7th December 2023

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