Perhaps you are an electrical engineer or a mechanical design manager looking to move away from project delivery and focus on inspiring, training, and mentoring the next generation of people?
If you are passionate about getting the best out of people and working with them to realise their true potential, then maybe the role of technical capability manager is for you!
Our in-house MEP Engineering business, Crown House Technologies, is looking for a technical capability manager or training manager to join the team. This is an important role where you would ideally be the 'eyes and ears' of the Technical Leadership team and have a role in both implementing continuous improvement and feeding back required changes to them.
If you join us, you'll be a valued member of an industry-leading business that can offer you an exciting and varied career with access to some truly great projects. We are committed to extensive training, development, and long-term career opportunities, and as such this role is suitable for someone who is seeking long-term career progression. What will the role involve?
This role is vital in realising our mission and holds specific responsibility for the people curriculum across the discipline to ensure, through their efforts, that we meet our customer's needs and deliver the transformation. The role will work closely with the clients and markets team, operational leaders, and Human Capital.
It is especially important that this position role models exemplary behaviours demonstrating absolute alignment with our strategic business direction and expectations including compliance with company systems and assurance. Maintain regular contact with projects, engineers, and project leaders, acting as point of contact for any discussions related to the engineering community. Is the key point of contact for the Structural Ambassadors and the Principal Engineers to develop and grow the engineering community. Acts as an advocate for engineering on projects - empowering and challenging engineers to pursue excellence. Contributes, through data-driven decision making, to a robust people strategy that addresses immediate, mid, and long-term business requirements aligned to our strategic objectives. Create and nurture an environment, which is understood and captured through definable measures and metrics, that champions our people, acknowledges their value and creates a strong technical community. Develop & maintain the career toolkits. Develop and maintain relationships with external industry bodies, institutions, and training providers to ensure we are increasing professional recognition and leading future skills planning (including any re-skilling needs to deliver modern methods of construction and increased digitization). Ensure that a strategy is in place for the Technical Function to assess and develop staff in order to meet the competency threshold for Building Safety Act duty-holder roles, as well as any other new legislation. Formulate the skills and training programs necessary for the discipline. Maintain personal professional development and associated professional membership. Represent Laing O'Rourke both internally and externally as a role model. Our people have exceptional capabilities and capacity to imagine and deliver engineering solutions that are differentiated in the marketplace. This is because our people are committed to our customers' needs, they are curious - relentlessly seeking to improve operational efficiency and they have the know-how to develop technical solutions that unlock the full benefits of our business operating model and modern methods of construction. Our processes, data, systems, and assurance are all designed to be in service of our people and our customers to maximise value, increase transparency and support critical decision-making. About us:
Crown House Technologies (Cht) is one of the UK's most advanced, and innovative, engineering and business services specialists. Part of the Laing O'Rourke Group, and founded on more than 200 years of experience, we are a leading construction and infrastructure technology services provider, supplying a complete Building Services package with communications, ICT, intelligent building, monitoring, BMS and the UK's largest mechanical, electrical & public health manufacturing facility - a 129,000 sq. ft factory - offering Off-site manufacturing and assembly for our digitally engineered modular MEICA packages. We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email
resourcingteam@laingorourke.com Company
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East, and Australia. Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people, and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients. “As an engineering enterprise, Laing O'Rourke is committed to playing a vital role in building a stronger and more sustainable economy that benefits society in general.” –
Ray O’Rourke KBE, Chief Executive Officer Diversity & Inclusion:
Laing O'Rourke is committed to inclusion; an employer that maintains the highest standard of employment practice and one which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse society in which we live and work. Laing O'Rourke believes that when we go to work, we should feel we are going to a place where we are accepted, understood, and valued and that we should make others we work with feel this way too. DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION SUBCOMMITTEES
Laing O'Rourke have ten Diversity & Inclusion Subcommittees. The purpose of the diversity and inclusion sub-committees is to offer a safe and supportive environment to listen and share personal experiences and insights, as well as play a sympathetic role for each other. The sub-committees help to drive education, events, and initiatives across the organisation as well as help colleagues to understand their purpose. Support for Disabled Employees: LOR recruitment, HR Teams, Leadership and management have undertaken disability awareness training and are eager to provide an inclusive and accessibility experience to job applicants and new colleagues. LOR Dis-ABILITY Subcommittee is an Employee Network Group of colleagues passionate about disability inclusion. Its aims are to raise awareness and remove barriers around disability, neurodiversity, and long-term health conditions to support creating an inclusive and diverse workplace for everyone. Disability Confident Leaders– We are using the requirements of the government scheme to create an inclusive environment for disabled job applicants and existing colleagues. LOR are members of the Business Disability Forum, giving access to a wide range of resources and information. Our line managers have access to their best practice guides and confidential support line. LOR are partnering with Even Break to have access to exemplary advice around disability inclusion. Sustainability:
In April 2021 Laing O’Rourke announced new global sustainability targets. These include: To be a net zero company by 2050 By 2033 to achieve equal gender balance across currently 5,500 international staff Rewards and Benefits: Private Medical Insurance Pension – basic and enhanced schemes Health and Wellbeing Virtual GP Health Assessment (Age 50+) Phased return to work (80% of working week for 100% pay) Employee Assistance Programme 5 days leave extra can be purchased Employee Discounts Allowances – car or transport allowance, depending on role/grade
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