Principal Electrical Engineer

At AECOM, we believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team - 47,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world. Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity. We have won a number of large projects in the North, particularly in the Healthcare sector and are looking to grow our teams in both Leeds and Manchester.

Job Responsibilities will include:

• Reporting to the Associate Director and being responsible for the management and delivery of small and medium sized projects.
• Responsible for project finances.
• Managing a small team of engineers and providing specialised technical input to studies and design to assist in the development of junior and graduate engineers.
• Participate, manage and engage in interdisciplinary review of project deliverables.
• Preparation of fee estimates, design programme and liaison with clients to agree project deliverables.
• Participating in quality control review of design calculations or drawings.
• Preparing technical specification sections.
• Providing input to the development of engineering budget and schedule to meet requirements.
• Having a good understanding of software packages used for the design of electrical services.
• Managing project resources to meet the agreed deliverables on programme and within budget.

Minimum Requirements:

• Successful track record of electrical services design.
• A highly motivated individual with a passion for succeeding and developing.
• Have previous experience working as either a Senior / Principal Engineer.
• Excellent communicator (both written and verbal) with strong negotiation skills.
• Membership of a relevant professional body, such as IET.
• Good understanding of software packages used to design electrical services.
• Experience in delivering projects using BIM software packages.
• The successful candidate will preferably have had experience in the design and delivery of healthcare facilities.

Qualifications:

• Have a CIBSE/IET/IMechE Engineering Council accredited honours degree.
• Should be a Chartered Engineer (CEng) with a relevant professional body.
• Extensive post graduate experience.

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us. At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives. If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!