Head of Main Plant Design

Avangrid

Cambuslang, United Kingdom

Full Time

Posted September 24, 2026

£82k - £103k

Grid Infrastructure

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Freshness: Open in the current public read path; this is not an employer guarantee.Last observed October 5, 2026
Classification: Modern power-system classification not yet published for this listing.Legacy source industry field: Grid Infrastructure
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Job Description

Salary + benefits - Salary from £82,400 - £103,000 + annual bonus (up to 30%), car allowance (£450 per month) and family private medical cover.

Key Responsibilities

As Head of Main Plant Design, you'll provide strategic direction and operational management for the Main Plant Design function within SP Transmission's Core Projects business. You'll manage teams of professional engineers, ensuring they deliver cost-effective, end-to-end design solutions for transmission projects ranging from £100,000 to over £100 million in value.
You'll drive efficiency and design consistency across the SPT business to deliver standardised design solutions. Through continuous improvement across your discipline and broadly across Engineering Design, you'll implement new technologies and engineering solutions to achieve reductions in costs and carbon for sustainable projects.
Your role includes ensuring compliance with all HSEQ policies and engineering standards, building a consultancy model founded on safety and excellence. You'll act as professional authority for regulatory changes, providing direction on complex technical issues and ensuring timely replies to legislation affecting policy and procedures.
You'll undertake long-term planning and coordination of Main Plant resources across SPT Core Projects, working closely with Design Houses and Contractors to ensure performance and quality outputs. Representing Main Plant within external technical forums, you'll facilitate cross-disciplinary service delivery and knowledge exchange.
You'll provide direct line management to three Design Managers and a Principal Engineer, with your overall team expected to grow to meet increasing demand. Ensuring adequate training, coaching, and mentoring is in place to advance knowledge and skills across your function will be a key priority.

Requirements

You'll be a Chartered Engineer with a degree and extensive experience relevant to Engineering Design disciplines. Your expert knowledge of transmission Switchgear and Transformers, combined with significant experience designing the Electro-Mechanical elements of large complex transmission substations, will be essential to your success in this role.
You'll bring demonstrated expertise in implementing new technologies and engineering solutions, along with expert knowledge of CDM and Health & Safety regulations. Your proven ability to implement, apply, and promote best practice in design environments will ensure our projects meet the highest standards.
With substantial experience working with Design Houses and Contractors, you'll ensure performance excellence and quality outputs. Your proven ability to guide, motivate, and inspire teams to deliver continued professional excellence while pursuing personal development will be crucial as you build and develop your function.
You'll have proven capability in forming effective working relationships with stakeholders across technical and commercial functions. Experience in long-term planning, resource coordination, and budget management is essential, and you'll be comfortable contributing to forecasting total expenditure for programmes worth hundreds of millions of pounds annually.
Your well-established ability to drive standardisation, efficiency, and continuous improvement across engineering functions will help us deliver consistent, high-quality results. Strong communication skills will enable you to represent your function effectively within the business and at external technical forums, while providing strategic direction on complex technical matters and ensuring compliance with evolving regulatory requirements.

Benefits & Perks

As well as an attractive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we'll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.
At ScottishPower, we believe it's the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family's wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action -- our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world -- today and tomorrow. That's why our benefits include:
36 days annual leave
Holiday Purchase - perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
Equity Plans
Payroll Giving and Charity Matched Funding
Technology Vouchers - save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases
Electric Vehicle Schemes - to help you transition to green/clean driving
Cycle to Work scheme and Public Transport Season Ticket Loans
Healthcare benefit options including: Dental Insurance, Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan and annual Health Assessments
Life Assurance (4x salary)
Access to Savesmart financial wellbeing assistance
Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more