Senior Engineer Review Field, Plan and Build

1. Senior Engineer Review Field, Plan and Build

2. Vision ‘A national team of senior engineers with unified goals, clear responsibilities and measurable objectives, a forum of technical expertise where knowledge sharing is commonplace and all are equally committed to the skills and development of an allocated group of engineers.’

3. Key Outcomes • Consistency • (Nationally and within technical area) • Clearly Defined Role • (Responsibilities, Expectations and Career Path) • Measurable Objectives • (Accurate Reporting of Performance Against Objectives)

4. Consistency(within technical area) By breaking down the management areas and allocating an even number of engineers to each senior it will enable more focused delivery of training and a ensure workload is manageable.

5. Clearly Defined Role

6. Clearly Defined Role cont… • Clarifying the senior roles and responsibilities will ensure there is.. • A clearly defined career path from engineer to senior. • A consistent national approach to learning and development, special projects, escalations and KPI performance. • It will also ensure current seniors build up their skills in other areas and are not pigeon-holed into one type of project.

7. Measurable Objectives – Creating realistic and achievable Job Standards • Field Productivity • The amount of time spent in the field will differ between field/ rigging/ power as there is a difference in ratio of senior to engineer. • Team Skill Level • Skill levels of assigned engineers will be recorded and monitored and quarterly increases in skill level measured to reflect individual performance against the objective. • Team KPIs • Taking an active role in KPI performance and service level, keeping track of KPIs, identifying and addressing failures and delivering training to combat problem areas. • Special Projects (Work-Load Sharing) • The ability to measure not only the success of projects but the pro-active sharing of project work-loads between other members of the senior engineer team to ensure other job standards do not suffer and to encourage further sharing of knowledge and skills.

8. Steps to achieve desired outcomes.. • Key Trainer Skills Course • Update and Agree Objectives / Job Standards • Introduction to Skills and Development Tool • Assign Individual Engineers to Seniors • Create Senior Engineer Forum • Assign Ownership of Skills / Knowledge Categories This Week After 2nd Course (All seniors completed)

9. Required output from this week • Complete Key Trainer Skills Course • Create first draft of revised Senior Engineer Job Description • Overview of Skills and Development Tool Functionality • For Friday… • Pull together details of the work you do in your current role and compare to your current Job Description. • Start thinking about ideas for updated objectives and job standards, differences between objectives for field, power and rigging. What objectives in your current job description no longer apply to your role? • Try to think how you will apply the skills you learn this week to your new objectives around skills and development going forward.