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• Lead and manage all phases of civil engineering projects, from conception and planning to execution and completion.
• Develop detailed project plans, including scope, timelines, resource allocation, and budget management.
• Oversee site operations, ensuring adherence to engineering specifications, building codes, and safety regulations.
• Manage and coordinate project teams, including engineers, contractors, subcontractors, and site personnel.
• Conduct regular site inspections and progress meetings to monitor project performance and identify potential issues.
• Procure and manage all necessary materials, equipment, and services.
• Liaise with clients, stakeholders, and regulatory bodies to ensure clear communication and successful project delivery.
• Implement risk management strategies to identify and mitigate potential project risks.
• Ensure all project documentation is accurate, up-to-date, and compliant.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of project management methodologies and construction practices.
• Manage financial aspects of the project, including cost control, invoicing, and payment processing.
• Foster strong working relationships with all parties involved in the project lifecycle.

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or a related field. A Master's degree or professional accreditation (e.g., P.Eng, CEng) is a significant advantage.
• A minimum of 7-10 years of proven experience in managing large-scale civil engineering and construction projects.
• Demonstrated expertise in infrastructure development, such as roads, bridges, utilities, or public works.
• Strong understanding of construction methodologies, materials, and equipment.
• Excellent leadership, team management, and negotiation skills.
• Proficiency in project management software (e.g., MS Project, Primavera P6) and CAD software.
• Exceptional organizational, planning, and problem-solving abilities.
• Thorough knowledge of health, safety, and environmental regulations within the construction industry.
• Ability to effectively manage budgets and control project costs.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, both written and verbal.

• Lead and manage the full lifecycle of civil engineering projects, including planning, design, procurement, construction, and handover.
• Develop detailed project plans, including scope, budgets, timelines, and resource allocation.
• Oversee project teams, including engineers, site staff, and subcontractors, ensuring effective collaboration and performance.
• Manage project finances, track expenditure, and control costs to ensure projects remain within budget.
• Ensure all projects comply with relevant health, safety, environmental, and quality standards and regulations.
• Liaise with clients, stakeholders, regulatory bodies, and other external parties to manage expectations and ensure smooth project execution.
• Identify and mitigate project risks, developing contingency plans as needed.
• Approve designs and technical specifications, ensuring they meet project requirements and industry best practices.
• Conduct regular site visits to monitor progress, quality, and safety.
• Prepare and present project progress reports to senior management and clients.

• Chartered Engineer (CEng) status or equivalent professional qualification.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Civil Engineering.
• Minimum of 8 years of progressive experience in civil engineering project management, with a proven track record of successfully delivering large-scale infrastructure projects (e.g., highways, bridges, water systems).
• In-depth knowledge of project management methodologies and tools (e.g., Prince2, PMP).
• Strong understanding of construction methods, materials, and regulations.
• Excellent leadership, team management, and communication skills.
• Proficiency in project management software (e.g., MS Project, Primavera).
• Strong financial acumen and experience in budget management.
• Exceptional problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and work effectively under pressure.
• Commitment to health, safety, and environmental best practices.

• Supervise and manage all site engineering activities, including setting out, surveying, and quality control.
• Ensure all construction activities are carried out in accordance with project design specifications, drawings, and method statements.
• Implement and enforce rigorous health, safety, and environmental procedures on site.
• Manage and mentor a team of site engineers and technical staff.
• Liaise with project managers, site managers, subcontractors, and clients.
• Prepare and maintain accurate site records, including daily reports, progress updates, and as-built surveys.
• Control the quality of works, ensuring compliance with specifications and standards.
• Undertake technical problem-solving and provide practical solutions to on-site challenges.
• Ensure efficient use of resources and equipment on site.
• Contribute to the planning and programming of site works.

• HND or Degree in Civil Engineering or a related discipline.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in site engineering within the construction industry, preferably with large-scale civil engineering projects.
• Strong understanding of surveying techniques, setting out procedures, and use of associated equipment (e.g., Total Station, GPS).
• In-depth knowledge of construction methods, materials, and quality standards.
• Proven experience in managing health and safety on construction sites.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to read and interpret complex engineering drawings and specifications.
• Proficient in relevant engineering software.
• Must hold a valid CSCS card and have the right to work in the UK.
• Ability to work effectively on-site in Reading and manage challenging project demands.

Engineering Manager

ReeVR Talent are proud to be partnered with Gulmay Ltd – a global leader in high-voltage power supply systems – in the search for a driven and technically strong Engineering Manager to lead their UK engineering team.

The Role

As Engineering Manager, you’ll play a key role in driving Gulmay’s R&D and product development functions, working closely with Sales, Marketing and Operations to align engineering output with commercial goals.

You’ll manage a talented multi-disciplinary team covering electronics, embedded firmware and mechanical design, ensuring the delivery of innovative, high-quality products that meet the needs of the high-voltage industry.

Key Responsibilities of the Engineering Manager:

• Lead, motivate and develop a diverse UK engineering team across R&D and sustaining functions.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects, ensuring delivery on time, within budget and scope.
• Review and approve product designs, ensuring compliance with relevant standards.
• Collaborate with internal teams to support new product introductions and continuous improvement.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement and cost reduction across engineering functions.
• Provide guidance, mentorship and direction to team members, supporting their professional development.
• Work with supply chain and external partners to support manufacturing and supplier relationships.

Key experience of the Engineering Manager:

• Proven experience leading and managing cross-functional engineering teams.
• Degree-qualified in a technical discipline (Electronics, Mechanical, or similar).
• Strong understanding of product development processes – from concept to production.
• Previous experience in high-voltage design or X-ray systems is highly desirable.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Commercially aware, innovative, and capable of balancing multiple priorities effectively.

Why Join Gulmay?

This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and respected organisation with a reputation for engineering excellence and technical innovation. You’ll have the autonomy to shape your team, influence strategy, and drive the development of world-class high-voltage products.

If you’re an experienced engineering leader ready to make an impact, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today or contact ReeVR for a confidential discussion.

Engineering Lead

Surrey

£55,000 - £65,000

Engineering Lead – Elevate Your Career!

Are you an experienced engineer looking for a rewarding challenge at a fast-growing SME? This role offers the chance to lead the engineering strategy for an exciting FMCG business!

Why This Role?

As an Engineering Lead, you will have the opportunity to leverage your skills and experience to drive innovation and efficiency within a well-invested facility. The role offers the chance to work with a range of technology and equipment, ensuring that no two days are the same. Additionally, the company values continuous improvement and safe-working practices, fostering a supportive and forward-thinking work environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and supervise a small engineering team, ensuring optimal performance and adherence to safety standards.
• Utilise your expertise in both Mechanical and Electrical Engineering to maintain and improve process and packaging equipment.
• Manage and work within a structured budget, demonstrating a proactive and solution-oriented approach.
• Implement and promote a culture of Continuous Improvement, driving operational excellence.

Skills and Experience Required:

• Proven supervisory experience, with the ability to lead and motivate a team.
• Qualified to NVQ Level 3 or equivalent and above.
• Extensive experience in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering.
• Continuous experience within the food manufacturing, FMCG is preferred.
• A solid understanding of process and packaging equipment; experience with cooking kettles is advantageous but not essential.
• Broad knowledge of electro-mechanical equipment, maintenance, and principles.
• Demonstrable knowledge of safe-working practices and a commitment to Continuous Improvement.

This role is perfect for a driven and experienced engineer ready to make a significant impact. If you have the skills and experience outlined above, this could be the ideal next step in your career.

REF: DJF58198

Our Mission

At Trustonic, we make smartphones affordable for the many — enabling global access to devices and digital finance through the world’s most secure smartphone locking technology. We partner with mobile carriers, retailers, and financiers across 30+ countries, powering device financing solutions that drive economic inclusion, profitability, and growth.

Our Culture

We pride ourselves on living by the Trustonic culture code, a blueprint for our journey that recognises that great working environments don’t guarantee success, but bad ones almost always ensure failure.

Working here, you’ll find a company that celebrates its diversity and is looking to do the right thing: for each other, the community and the planet. We believe in equal opportunities and take to heart the old African proverb ’If you only want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together’.

We work flexibly when and where we’re at our best, but regardless of how you choose to work, we’ll make sure you feel like one of the team.

Click here if you would like to find out more about Trustonic's culture code.

A bit about the team and what you’ll deliver

We are seeking a world-class SVP of Engineering to lead and strengthen the build, delivery and technical ownership of Trustonic’s Telecoms Platform. This is a mission-critical role, reporting directly to the CEO and working in close partnership with peers across Product and Operations.

You will be responsible for delivering a highly reliable, scalable, and secure platform (TP3) while embedding the engineering discipline, governance, and metrics required to support Trustonic’s next stage of growth. This role requires both strategic oversight and operational excellence, ensuring that Trustonic’s technology remains scalable, performant, reliable and aligned with product and customer priorities.

The SVP Engineering will bring structure, focus, and resilience to a team of c25 in-house engineers and c30 offshore developers with another 60-70 via offshore development partners. The role will provide oversight for key contributors (including the VP Product Development, Engineering Director-Americas and Director, Programme & Operations), instilling engineering best practices across the organisation.

As the SVP, Engineering you will:

Strategic ownership

• Own and evolve the engineering strategy in alignment with product, commercial, and business objectives.
• Guide long-term technology architecture and infrastructure planning for global scalability.
• Embed platform reliability, service quality, and performance metrics at the heart of engineering execution.
• Oversee a scalable, secure multi-tenant SaaS architecture on AWS; drive standards, patterns, and guardrails, including Android & applications
• Lead an effective blended development model with clear SOWs, SLAs, quality gates, secure access, and code ownership.
• Manage engineering/infrastructure budgets and provide strategic oversight for FinOps practices, unit economics tracking, and the maintenance of a transparent risk register and remediation plans.

Execution and delivery

• Lead disciplined engineering execution across distributed in-house and outsourced teams.
• Champion 24/7/365 platform operations with SLAs, capacity planning, incident response and post-mortems
• Implement structured software release governance, migration frameworks, and robust QA practices.
• Drive predictable delivery (quarterly planning, dependency/risk management, quality gates).
• Establish and enforce best-in-class DevOps, trunk-based, CI/CD, and monitoring standards.
• Sponsor the adoption of secure SDLC, threat modelling, vulnerability management, identity/authorisation, privacy by design; ISO27001/9001, security posture and customer due diligence.

Cross-functional leadership

• Partner closely with Product leaders to ensure product discovery, prioritisation, and delivery processes are respected and aligned.
• Work closely with Operations and Support to ensure handoffs are smooth, access is appropriately managed, and support tooling is fit for purpose.
• Create transparency and accountability through clear reporting of engineering performance to the Executive and wider leadership team.

Team and organisation

• Lead, design, grow, mentor and inspire a global team of in-house/offshore engineers and external development partners.
• Build a strong engineering culture that values quality, resilience, accountability, and collaboration.
• Actively address key-person risks by distributing knowledge and creating scalable structures.
• Lead the recruitment, focus on retention, and development of engineering talent to build a high-performance organisation.

Who you are as a leader

• Builder’s mindset & hands‑on pragmatism: comfortable diving into design reviews, deployment decisions, or an incident bridge.
• Low‑ego, high‑trust collaborator with the CPO/Product leaders; co‑authors a single message to the org; avoids “two captains” anti‑pattern.
• High EQ: able to build trust, support and empower key contributors, and lead teams through transformation.
• Calm under pressure, with a track record of stabilising high-urgency technical environments.
• Expert at retaining, hiring, mentoring, coaching and developing senior engineering talent at ‘Head of/Director level’.

What makes you, you

Experience

• Significant experience in senior engineering leadership roles within B2B SaaS, telecoms, fintech, or infrastructure platforms.
• Demonstrable experience of defining and executing an engineering strategy aligned with Company goals
• Proven track record of leading and scaling globally distributed engineering teams (50 – 200), 24/7/365, including outsourced/ODC partners and development partners.
• Experience blending in-house and partner teams without loss of quality or security.
• Experience leading ISO standard and GDPR compliance programmes.
• Deep expertise in providing strategic oversight and guidance for AWS cloud architecture (including EKS/ECS, serverless, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront, ALB/NLB, SNS/SQS/Kinesis, KMS/Secrets), infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK), and observability practices, ensuring best-in-class standards are set and maintained across engineering teams.
• Experience stewarding the implementation of scalable architectures (multi-tenant, API-first, streaming/events, caching) and resiliency patterns (graceful degradation, bulkheads, back pressure), empowering teams to deliver robust solutions.
• Experience leading and governing SRE/DevOps practices at scale, including CI/CD, incident management, post-mortems, and capacity & cost management, fostering a culture of operational excellence and continuous improvement.
• Sponsor and champion security leadership, including secure SDLC, identity/authorization (SAML/OIDC, SCIM), data protection, and compliance with ISO 27001 / GDPR, ensuring teams are equipped to meet and exceed regulatory and customer expectations.
• Experience in building strong partnerships with Product, Sales, Customer Success, and external customers: evidence of constructive trade-offs with a CPO/Product leaders; clear communication to execs/Board

Knowledge

• Cloud-native SaaS on AWS, distributed systems, data consistency & resiliency; identity and access patterns.
• Telecoms/device ecosystem and integrations (operators, OEMs), enterprise security and compliance expectations.
• Cost optimisation and unit economics for cloud platforms.

Skills

• Skilled at balancing technical innovation with pragmatic delivery and customer commitments.
• Ability to set and evolve technical standards, patterns, and guardrails for a modern SaaS platform.
• Skilled in org design, career ladders, performance management, and fostering a high-bar engineering culture.
• Ability to drive reliability, performance, and cost efficiency in cloud environments.
• Skilled sponsor and champion of secure SDLC, threat modelling, vulnerability management, and privacy by design.
• Ability to partner with product and legal teams on security trade-offs and customer due diligence.
• Skilled in agile delivery, quarterly planning, dependency/risk management, and quality assurance.
• Ability to drive predictable delivery, manage technical debt, and continuously improve engineering velocity.
• Strong financial acumen: managing engineering/cloud budgets, AWS FinOps, and tracking unit economics.
• Proactive risk identification and mitigation across technology, operations, and security.
• Excellent communication skills: able to engage with senior engineers, executives, and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to contribute to roadmap planning and trade-offs, and present to the senior level.
• Able to mentor and coach; sets crisp standards; builds a psychologically safe, high-bar culture.

Qualifications

• Masters’s degree in engineering, computer science, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
• AWS certified, desirable
• Leadership and management CPD, qualifications or certifications, desirable.

Trustonic is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on any grounds. We empower, engage, enable and value differences between people, including; different races, ethnicities, genders, ages, religions, disabilities and sexual orientations, with differences in education, backgrounds, skill sets, experiences and knowledge.

• Engineering Technical Manager – Critical Environments – High Profile
• Croydon and Heathrow
• £77,000 to £79,000
• Potential Travel Allowance Between Locations
• Overtime paid at an enhanced hourly rate
• Pension
• Health Care
• PPE
• 25 Days Annual Leave – Plus Bank Holidays
• etc

Engineering Manager – Critical Facilities (Data Centre / Banking Environment)

We are recruiting an Engineering Manager to lead technical operations across two high Profile sites — 4 days per week in South London and 1 day in Southwest / West London and Ideal candidates should be in commutable distant to both sites.

This role is suited ONLY to candidates coming from critical environments, such as data centres, banking, trading floors, or high-security mission critical 24/7 infrastructure. You will be responsible for both the strategic oversight and hands-on supervision of HV/LV systems, UPS, BMS, and business-critical plant, overseeing some projects via specialist sub-contractors etc

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage engineering teams, although this will be with other management on the contract, Contract manager, Technical Manager, Engineering Supervisor also including both day staff and shift engineers.
• Oversee PPM, reactive works, and fault escalation across all critical electrical and mechanical services.
• Take full operational control of HV/LV infrastructure, UPS and BMS systems.
• Coordinate contractors and subcontractors, ensuring safety, compliance, and performance standards are maintained.
• Produce engineering reports, load assessments, site audits, and ensure accurate logbooks/documentation.
• Maintain O&M manuals, risk assessments, CEWA permits, and contingency procedures.
• Support project works, shutdowns, and upgrades as required.
• Management Customer relationship
• Overtime & Flexibility

This role offers significant paid overtime, with the expectation to attend High Voltage shutdowns, weekend interventions, and project activity across both sites. Flexibility at short notice is essential.

Candidate Profile

• Must have proven experience in critical environments—Data Centre or Financial Services infrastructure is essential.
• Strong people manager, capable of leading and developing engineering teams.
• Recognised Mechanical or Electrical qualification (Apprenticeship / ONC / BTEC or equivalent).
• HV Authorised Person (or able to step into the role quickly).
• Highly organised, calm under pressure, and confident in decision-making and escalation.
• Computer literate with excellent communication and reporting ability.

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