Engineering Delivery, Quality & Asset Readiness Lead
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Engineering Delivery, Quality & Asset Readiness Lead
Role Purpose
The Engineering Delivery, Quality & Asset Readiness Lead is responsible for enabling predictable and timely delivery of revenue-generating projects while ensuring that all new and modified sites enter Operations technically complete, compliant, and stable.
The role combines engineering cycle-time ownership with quality governance and structured handover control, protecting both revenue timelines and capital investment while strengthening DRC’s engineering delivery capability.
Key Responsibilities
1. Engineering Delivery & Speed to Market
- Own engineering-related cycle time across B2S, Colocations, and Active Upgrades
- Ensure early engineering engagement to prevent late-stage design changes
- Apply approved design templates and standardised BOMs
- Define and enforce engineering approval timelines
- Identify and remove engineering-related bottlenecks
- Provide structured reporting on engineering cycle-time performance
2. Project Quality & Asset Readiness
- Own engineering deliverables for new and modified sites (drawings, BOMs, commissioning
- records)
- Define and enforce commissioning and testing standards
- Require formal engineering sign-off prior to Operations handover
- Govern Project-to-Operations handover acceptance processes
- Track early-life defects and drive corrective improvements
- Promote standardised site configurations
3. Standards Integration & Continuous Improvement
- Align local engineering standards with broader technical frameworks where appropriate
- Escalate recurring quality or design challenges through structured technical analysis when
- required
- Strengthen collaboration between Engineering, Projects, Supply Chain, and Operations
- Ensure engineering decisions balance speed, quality, and long-term asset stability
- Performance Measures
- The role will be assessed against defined annual targets in the following areas:
- Engineering-related cycle-time improvement
- Reduction in engineering-driven project delays
- Engineering documentation completeness and compliance
- Reduction in early-life defects
- Quality of Operations handover acceptance
Skills & Experience Required
- Engineering degree or equivalent technical experience
- Strong background in project engineering, design, or technical delivery
- Experience balancing delivery speed with quality assurance
- Strong process optimisation and stakeholder management skills
- Commercial awareness and focus on revenue-impacting activities
- Ability to influence multiple functional teams
- Power BI is a plus
Language Requirements
- Professional working proficiency in English and French (spoken and written) is required
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly across multicultural teams.