Engineering Council

 

EngineeringUK are currently recruiting for nominations to the Engineering Council Board of Trustees and welcome applications from interested candidates.

EngineeringUK, as part of its role to enable more young people from all backgrounds to be informed, inspired, and progress into engineering and technology, is able to appoint individuals to the Board of the Engineering Council. This helps ensure there is representation from across the engineering community and related sectors, and that the Board reflects the diversity of the engineering profession.

As part of this partnership, in return the Engineering Council provides advisory support to EngineeringUK on matters related to the regulation of the profession.

Applications (a recent copy of your CV and a summary letter) are to be sent to hr@engineeringuk.com.

Please can applicants include 'Engineering Council Trustee application' in the subject line, and specify the skills / experiences they bring from the criteria listed below.

The deadline for submitting applications is Wednesday 16 April.

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Key Tasks of the Board include:

• To ensure that professional standards for engineers and technicians are set and maintained in order to regulate the UK engineering profession
• To ensure that appropriate professional bodies are licensed to promote professional engineering registration
• To ensure that the Engineering Council delivers public benefit, maintains its charitable status, makes appropriate use of its resources and complies with the requirements of good governance
• To ensure that the international standing of the UK engineering profession is maintained and enhanced
• To ensure that stakeholder views are considered at all levels of decision making
• To maintain an awareness of the state of the engineering profession and its wider environment both now and in the future.

The Board meets four times a year (in-person or remote attendance options). All meetings now include a discussion on key strategic topics.

Candidates should have at least one of the following experiences:

• Apprenticeships experience, as a participant or supporting delivery of the pathway
• Technician-related experience, as a technician or supporting delivery of the pathway
• Experience or current knowledge of those at an early career stage
• International engineering regulatory experience and/or knowledge
• Digital, technology and cyber expertise
• Commercial, marketing and sales experience
• Learning & Development / CPD experience

All candidates should have the following attributes:

• Demonstrates a genuine interest in engineering and technology
• Open, collaborative and curious
• Demonstrate strategic mindset
• Commitment to the Engineering Council’s mission and values including its commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion.

About us

The Engineering Council is the UK regulatory body for the engineering profession. We ensure that employers, government, and wider society - both in the UK and overseas - have confidence in the knowledge, experience and commitment of professionally registered engineers and technicians. We work with international partners to enhance the mobility of engineering graduates as well as professionally registered engineers and technicians.

Our mission is to maintain internationally recognised standards of competence and commitment for the engineering profession and to license competent institutions to champion the standards for the deliverance of public benefit.

Our vision is that society continues to have confidence and trust in the engineering profession.

Our values apply to all our activity. At the Engineering Council, we always strive to act with:

• Fairness: we are inclusive and equitable, working collaboratively with each other and external stakeholders.
• Integrity: we act professionally, accountably and ethically, so that engineers, the wider engineering community and society can have confidence in us.
• Transparency: we are open and honest in everything we do, across all aspects of the organisation.