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AtkinsRéalis

Practice Director – Power and Energy Solutions

AtkinsRéalis

. Full accountability for setting and delivering the PES Practice Plan .

Posted 4/29/2026full-timeManchester • 🇬🇧 United KingdomLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Full accountability for setting and delivering the PES Practice Plan
  • Driving growth, operational performance, technical excellence and people development across the practice
  • Lead the continued evolution of PES towards its 2026 growth markets and service lines
  • Support the Transmission & Distribution sector through full discipline substation and network design
  • Advancing process‑led engineering, FEED and detailed design delivery capability
  • Supporting operational performance, asset resilience and decarbonisation for power and industrial clients
  • Scaling up our delivery model, seamlessly integrating our GTC and services through trusted partners
  • Developing new and transformed service lines aligned to the energy transition, Net Zero and digital engineering agendas
  • Maintaining high standards of technical assurance, QSSE and commercial discipline

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Significant experience leading complex engineering delivery across energy, infrastructure or industrial markets
  • Strong technical foundation with the credibility to lead multi‑disciplinary engineering teams at scale
  • Proven track record of driving growth, service development and transformation in line with market demand
  • Demonstrable experience working in a Design & Build type environment directly into a contractor
  • Demonstrable experience operating a mature offshore or global delivery model
  • Strong commercial acumen, including ownership of sustainable P&L performance
  • Experience working at senior leadership level within a matrix organisation, enabling collaboration across practices and geographies
  • Outward‑facing mindset, with the ability to build trusted senior‑level client relationships
  • Willingness to travel across the UK and internationally as required

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Enjoy competitive salaries
  • Employee rewards
  • Brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices
  • Opportunities for training and professional development
  • Hybrid working culture
  • Flexible holiday allowances

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Hard Skills & Tools
engineering deliverysubstation designnetwork designprocess-led engineeringFEEDdetailed designtechnical assuranceQSSEcommercial disciplineP&L performance
Soft Skills
leadershippeople developmentcollaborationclient relationship buildingoutward-facing mindsetcommercial acumengrowth drivingservice developmenttransformationmatrix organization experience