The UK Government’s British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme (BICS) aims to reduce electricity costs for the UK’s frontier industrial sectors and the foundational sectors that support them.

Scottish Engineering members are central to those sectors’ supply chains – providing the engineering, manufacturing, tooling, fabrication, and innovation that these industries rely on.

Yet early proposals risk under-representing engineering activity within the eligibility criteria.

This roundtable creates a space for members to join forces and shape a collective, industry-led response before the consultation closes.

Why Your Participation Matters

• Engineering is fundamental to the frontier sectors BICS is designed to support
• If Scottish Engineering members are not clearly represented within the frontier or foundational sectors, they may be excluded
• Only a unified response can influence the final scope and process
• The consultation is open – but time is limited

Topics We Will Explore

• Purpose & Context Understanding BICS and what the Government aims to achieve.
• Eligibility & Inclusion Does the proposal recognise engineering’s supply-chain role? What’s missing?
• Application Process How do we ensure SMEs are not excluded by complexity or narrow criteria?
• Sector Needs What the engineering community requires that the current proposal has not yet addressed.
• Implementation Timeline Is April 2027 too late for an industry already struggling with energy costs?
• Backdating the Benefit Should support be backdated if implementation is delayed?

Call to Action

If engineering businesses want to be included and recognised – we must act together. This is our chance to influence the scheme before it is finalised.

Register now to secure your place

The UK Government’s British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme (BICS) aims to reduce electricity costs for the UK’s frontier industrial sectors and the foundational sectors that support them.

Scottish Engineering members are central to those sectors’ supply chains – providing the engineering, manufacturing, tooling, fabrication, and innovation that these industries rely on.

Yet early proposals risk under-representing engineering activity within the eligibility criteria.

This roundtable creates a space for members to join forces and shape a collective, industry-led response before the consultation closes.

Why Your Participation Matters

• Engineering is fundamental to the frontier sectors BICS is designed to support
• If Scottish Engineering members are not clearly represented within the frontier or foundational sectors, they may be excluded
• Only a unified response can influence the final scope and process
• The consultation is open – but time is limited

Topics We Will Explore

• Purpose & Context Understanding BICS and what the Government aims to achieve.
• Eligibility & Inclusion Does the proposal recognise engineering’s supply-chain role? What’s missing?
• Application Process How do we ensure SMEs are not excluded by complexity or narrow criteria?
• Sector Needs What the engineering community requires that the current proposal has not yet addressed.
• Implementation Timeline Is April 2027 too late for an industry already struggling with energy costs?
• Backdating the Benefit Should support be backdated if implementation is delayed?

Call to Action

If engineering businesses want to be included and recognised – we must act together. This is our chance to influence the scheme before it is finalised.

Register now to secure your place

We are delighted to announce that places are now available for the January – March instalment of our Scottish Engineering Leadership Forum (SELF) programme, now into its ninth cohort, this time taking place at the Fife Fabrications office in Glenrothes. The SELF programme encompasses six face-to-face facilitated workshops, covering the range of leadership skills, and with a focus on your development as a leader. Feedback from our previous sessions has been fantastic.

Specifically designed for and targeted at the Engineering and Manufacturing sector in Scotland, SELF provides face-to-face learning with structured modules, development goals and time and space to implement the learning between sessions. This programme is also a fantastic opportunity to build and develop a network across our membership, connecting participants to Scottish industry.

The structured modules will enable Managers and prospective Leaders to make the step from day-to-day management, to developing their skills across both tactical management and strategy. The modules will enable you to get the best from your people through an in-depth examination of performance management, delegation, coaching and how to help their teams develop and grow. It will also develop your personal skills – making you a better communicator, improving your presentation skills for maximum effect, and improving your ability to influence others.

Above all, these sessions will enable you to understand yourself better, understand the leadership role and give you the tools and support to enable you to continue to grow as a manager, and as a leader.

Watch the video below to meet our Trainer, Gordon Robb, and let him introduce himself and the SELF programme to you – he explains it the best!

SELF is suitable for:

• Middle to Senior Managers
• Junior or First Level Managers or Supervisors with potential to develop
• Those whose roles are widening or changing and will require leadership skills
• Graduates, Graduate Trainees and Graduate Apprentices
• Any other staff who would benefit from developing their leadership skills

Cost

Members – £1200 + VAT
Non-members –  £1350 + VAT

Sessions will run 0930-1630 and will include lunch.

To book your place on this course, please contact [email protected]

Trainer

Gordon Robb

Thanks to our partnership with Gordon, we can offer these six sessions and masterclasses. Gordon is a hugely experienced trainer, facilitator and coach with international experience. He will help develop your skills and competence to make you and your company better. 

To book your place, contact [email protected]

We are delighted to announce that places are now available for the January – March instalment of our Scottish Engineering Leadership Forum (SELF) programme, now into its ninth cohort, this time taking place at the Fife Fabrications office in Glenrothes. The SELF programme encompasses six face-to-face facilitated workshops, covering the range of leadership skills, and with a focus on your development as a leader. Feedback from our previous sessions has been fantastic.

Specifically designed for and targeted at the Engineering and Manufacturing sector in Scotland, SELF provides face-to-face learning with structured modules, development goals and time and space to implement the learning between sessions. This programme is also a fantastic opportunity to build and develop a network across our membership, connecting participants to Scottish industry.

The structured modules will enable Managers and prospective Leaders to make the step from day-to-day management, to developing their skills across both tactical management and strategy. The modules will enable you to get the best from your people through an in-depth examination of performance management, delegation, coaching and how to help their teams develop and grow. It will also develop your personal skills – making you a better communicator, improving your presentation skills for maximum effect, and improving your ability to influence others.

Above all, these sessions will enable you to understand yourself better, understand the leadership role and give you the tools and support to enable you to continue to grow as a manager, and as a leader.

Watch the video below to meet our Trainer, Gordon Robb, and let him introduce himself and the SELF programme to you – he explains it the best!

SELF is suitable for:

• Middle to Senior Managers
• Junior or First Level Managers or Supervisors with potential to develop
• Those whose roles are widening or changing and will require leadership skills
• Graduates, Graduate Trainees and Graduate Apprentices
• Any other staff who would benefit from developing their leadership skills

Cost

Members – £1200 + VAT
Non-members –  £1350 + VAT

Sessions will run 0930-1630 and will include lunch.

To book your place on this course, please contact [email protected]

Trainer

Gordon Robb

Thanks to our partnership with Gordon, we can offer these six sessions and masterclasses. Gordon is a hugely experienced trainer, facilitator and coach with international experience. He will help develop your skills and competence to make you and your company better. 

To book your place, contact [email protected]

Malin Group

Thursday 29 January 2026

Join us on Thursday 29 January, 10am – 1pm, for an opportunity to share common challenges, better understand how fellow member companies are continuously improving their business, hear more about Malin Group, marine specialists, providing end to end solutions for the industry, from feasibility studies and consultancy, through design, fabrication and specialist welding, to transportation, mobilisation and decommissioning. With a heritage dating back 125 years, they have worked on a number of iconic projects – from the Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier, and big blue golf ball, to latterly HMS Glasgow, Hinkley point C and the Tay Whale.

Attendees will experience a tour of Malin Groups HQ, in the historic South Rotunda. Attendees will be provided with a short tour of the iconic building, before being invited to our gallery, with 360 degree views of the city, where you will hear a little on Malin Group and their respective business units – from feed and feasibility studies, to specialist welding and turnkey marine transportation. There will also be a short in-depth case study of one of our recent scopes, the roll-out and float-off of HMS Venturer, type 31 first in class.

Register your interest now

Heriot Watt

Thursday 5 February 2026

Join us on Thursday 5 February 10am – 1pm, for an opportunity to share common challenges, better understand how fellow member companies are continuously improving their business and hear more about Heriot-Watt University, a leader in developing talent for the engineering sector.

Heriot-Watt has a proud history of working with industry and has been at the forefront of work-based learning, particularly in engineering. During the event, attendees will have the opportunity to:

• Tour the Mechanical Engineering workshop and the Civil Engineering labs (including the rail track rigs)
• Understand how fully-funded Graduate Apprenticeships are an ideal way to develop much-needed talent through upskilling and new recruitment
• Hear firsthand from Scottish Engineering member firm Plexus about how Graduate Apprenticeships have made a positive impact in their organisation.

Register your interest now

We are delighted to announce that places are now available for the January – March instalment of our Scottish Engineering Leadership Forum (SELF) programme, now into its ninth cohort, this time taking place at the Fife Fabrications office in Glenrothes. The SELF programme encompasses six face-to-face facilitated workshops, covering the range of leadership skills, and with a focus on your development as a leader. Feedback from our previous sessions has been fantastic.

Specifically designed for and targeted at the Engineering and Manufacturing sector in Scotland, SELF provides face-to-face learning with structured modules, development goals and time and space to implement the learning between sessions. This programme is also a fantastic opportunity to build and develop a network across our membership, connecting participants to Scottish industry.

The structured modules will enable Managers and prospective Leaders to make the step from day-to-day management, to developing their skills across both tactical management and strategy. The modules will enable you to get the best from your people through an in-depth examination of performance management, delegation, coaching and how to help their teams develop and grow. It will also develop your personal skills – making you a better communicator, improving your presentation skills for maximum effect, and improving your ability to influence others.

Above all, these sessions will enable you to understand yourself better, understand the leadership role and give you the tools and support to enable you to continue to grow as a manager, and as a leader.

Watch the video below to meet our Trainer, Gordon Robb, and let him introduce himself and the SELF programme to you – he explains it the best!

SELF is suitable for:

• Middle to Senior Managers
• Junior or First Level Managers or Supervisors with potential to develop
• Those whose roles are widening or changing and will require leadership skills
• Graduates, Graduate Trainees and Graduate Apprentices
• Any other staff who would benefit from developing their leadership skills

Cost

Members – £1200 + VAT
Non-members –  £1350 + VAT

Sessions will run 0930-1630 and will include lunch.

To book your place on this course, please contact [email protected]

Trainer

Gordon Robb

Thanks to our partnership with Gordon, we can offer these six sessions and masterclasses. Gordon is a hugely experienced trainer, facilitator and coach with international experience. He will help develop your skills and competence to make you and your company better. 

To book your place, contact [email protected]

Tuesday 24 February | 9.30am-4.30pm | Exclusive saving of £800 for ScotEng members

AI’s true power lies not in the technology itself, but in its ability to transform the way organizations operate. As highlighted by the Project Management Institute (PMI), the organizations that thrive with AI are those that embrace it as a catalyst for meaningful change. With the potential to revolutionize how work gets done, AI can elevate project outcomes, enhance efficiency, and significantly improve decision-making across all delivery approaches.

This one-day workshop offers a comprehensive introduction to the practical application of AI in project and change management roles. Participants will explore how AI can automate and augment key tasks, strengthen communication, and support better decision-making throughout the project or change lifecycle. The session also addresses the practical and ethical considerations of adopting AI in real-world environments. We’re delighted to bring this course to our members at the special discounted rate of £495, this is an £800 saving on normal course fees (usually £1295).

A standout feature of this workshop is its hands-on learning experience. Using QA’s best-in-class learning environment and a web-based version of Copilot Chat, you’ll gain practical experience crafting and refining prompts to support typical workflows such as progress reporting, risk management, stakeholder analysis, and knowledge sharing.

Register here

This workshop is ideal for:

• Project Managers seeking to enhance efficiency, communication, and decision-making through AI.
• PMO Staff who need a clear understanding of how AI supports planning, reporting, risk analysis, and governance.
• Portfolio and Programme Managers using AI insights for strategic alignment and informed decision-making.
• Change Managers looking to leverage AI to support and accelerate organisational change initiatives.
• Project Professionals interested in learning how AI can increase the likelihood of project success.

Event Details:

• Date: Tuesday 24th February
• Time: 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
• Location: Scottish Engineering, 105 West George Street, Glasgow G2 1QL
• Cost: £495 for ScotEng members (this is an exclusive discount, usual cost is £1295)
• Includes: Complimentary lunch and refreshments

Important Note:

Each attendee can prepare for and then sit the online ‘AI Enabled Project Management’ exam on a day and time of their choosing.

The exam is administered by the internationally recognized APM Group (APMG) and the format is:

• 30 minutes
• 20 multiple choice questions
• Open book
• 11 correct answers to pass (55%)

Secure your spot today!

Register here

Register here

We are delighted to announce that places are now available for the January – March instalment of our Scottish Engineering Leadership Forum (SELF) programme, now into its ninth cohort, this time taking place at the Fife Fabrications office in Glenrothes. The SELF programme encompasses six face-to-face facilitated workshops, covering the range of leadership skills, and with a focus on your development as a leader. Feedback from our previous sessions has been fantastic.

Specifically designed for and targeted at the Engineering and Manufacturing sector in Scotland, SELF provides face-to-face learning with structured modules, development goals and time and space to implement the learning between sessions. This programme is also a fantastic opportunity to build and develop a network across our membership, connecting participants to Scottish industry.

The structured modules will enable Managers and prospective Leaders to make the step from day-to-day management, to developing their skills across both tactical management and strategy. The modules will enable you to get the best from your people through an in-depth examination of performance management, delegation, coaching and how to help their teams develop and grow. It will also develop your personal skills – making you a better communicator, improving your presentation skills for maximum effect, and improving your ability to influence others.

Above all, these sessions will enable you to understand yourself better, understand the leadership role and give you the tools and support to enable you to continue to grow as a manager, and as a leader.

Watch the video below to meet our Trainer, Gordon Robb, and let him introduce himself and the SELF programme to you – he explains it the best!

SELF is suitable for:

• Middle to Senior Managers
• Junior or First Level Managers or Supervisors with potential to develop
• Those whose roles are widening or changing and will require leadership skills
• Graduates, Graduate Trainees and Graduate Apprentices
• Any other staff who would benefit from developing their leadership skills

Cost

Members – £1200 + VAT
Non-members –  £1350 + VAT

Sessions will run 0930-1630 and will include lunch.

To book your place on this course, please contact [email protected]

Trainer

Gordon Robb

Thanks to our partnership with Gordon, we can offer these six sessions and masterclasses. Gordon is a hugely experienced trainer, facilitator and coach with international experience. He will help develop your skills and competence to make you and your company better. 

To book your place, contact [email protected]