Senior Electrical Engineering Manager - Grid/Substations

Job Title: Senior Engineering Manager

Job Location: Glasgow

Job Type: Permanent

Annual Salary: Up to £100,000 + £6,000 Car Allowance + Package

Client Overview

Our exclusive client is a global engineering and construction business with a strong reputation for delivering complex infrastructure, power, and renewables projects across the EMEA region and USA. The organisation operates at the intersection of engineering design, consultancy, and project delivery, supporting clients across energy, infrastructure, and built environment markets.

Its Glasgow-based team is involved in technically challenging projects, often working as part of multidisciplinary teams on large-scale developments. The business offers exposure to highly engineered environments, advanced technologies, and international best practice, with a strong focus on innovation, sustainability and net zero.

Role Overview

An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead and oversee engineering delivery within the Glasgow team and wider EMEA region.

This role will take responsibility for managing the work of electrical engineering teams, ensuring the successful delivery of complex projects from concept through to execution.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Provide technical leadership across assigned projects, taking a hands-on role while supporting Project Managers by leading on engineering aspects and allowing them to focus on commercial delivery
• Act as a client-facing figure, highly visible internally, coordinating effectively across multiple disciplines and seniority levels, including non-technical stakeholders
• Translate and simplify complex technical information, understanding client priorities and challenges to deliver practical, solution-focused outcomes
• Focus primarily on the design phase of projects, with limited involvement in construction in the near term
• Deliver work across FEED studies, detailed design, and owner’s engineer scopes, with a strong emphasis on substation design and growing involvement in BESS (Battery Energy Storage Systems)
• Provide technical input to bids and proposals, supporting work-winning activity
• Operate across the EMEA region, with the majority of projects based in the UK, alongside some involvement in Ireland, Spain, UAE, and other European locations
• Predominantly a desk-based role, with occasional travel for client meetings and site visits across the region

Requirements

• Bachelors in Electrical Engineering
• Min 10 years relevant experience
• Electrical engineering design, especially substation. Must understand P&C
• HV experience essential, MV strongly desired
• Understanding of UK grid code, regulations, how DNOs operate etc
• Experience in similar engineering firms preferred
• Communication and interpersonal skills are as important as technical expertise

Benefits

• Salary up to £100,000
• £6,000 car allowance per annum
• Annual bonus - based on performance
• 33 days annual leave including public holidays
• Hybrid working
• Life assurance (4x annual salary)
• Company pension scheme - 8% employer contributions
• Private medical insurance#
• Global employee ownership scheme - 10% of salary awarded in shares per annum
• Lifestyle Spending Allowance - $500 USD per annum for wellness related spending

Next Steps

If you're interested in this opportunity, please submit your updated CV or reach out to Lusona Consultancy for a confidential conversation.

If this role isn’t quite the right fit but you’re exploring new opportunities, we would be happy to assist you in finding the perfect match.