Website Venesky-Brown Recruitment
Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation with various locations across Scotland, is currently looking to recruit a Senior Operational Comms Engineer for an initial 6 month contract with option to extend on a rate of £350/day (Outside IR35). This role will be based in Scotland.
Responsibilities:
– Lead the support, monitoring, maintenance, and development of the organisations operational communications systems using ITIL best practices.
– Manage incidents, service requests, changes, problems, capacity management, and lifecycle management of communications infrastructure.
– Provide technical leadership, guidance, and mentoring to engineers and direct reports.
– Undertake line management duties including workload allocation, performance management, leave management, and staff development.
– Lead documentation, disaster recovery, business continuity, innovation, and procurement activities.
– Deliver third-line support for critical systems.
Essential Skills:
– HND in Digital Technology, Electronic Engineering, or related discipline.
– Extensive technical knowledge and experience supporting operational communications technologies and control systems.
– Ability and willingness to learn new technologies.
– Experience providing technical leadership and support to junior colleagues.
– Strong leadership and people management skills.
– Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
– Resilience under pressure.
– Problem-solving and decision-making ability.
– Commitment to diversity, integrity, continuous improvement, and excellence.
– Ability to plan, prioritise, and implement work effectively.
Desirable Skills:
– Degree-level qualification or equivalent experience.
– ITIL v4 Foundation (or higher).
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.