Senior/Principal Electrical Engineers in Manchester

Location: Hybrid working with 2-3 days per week in United Utilities Lingley Mere office. Site visits as required. Permanent full-time (40 hours) Competitive salary plus benefits.

We are seeking Electrical Engineers with extensive experience and understanding of sewage treatment processes and the equipment/system requirements.

What this role requires:

• Ability to generate innovative and/or technically differentiated solutions to problems, to deliver added value for clients.
• Extensive experience and expertise in the production of Electrical, Instrumentation, Control and Automation (EICA) design deliverables.
• Ability to manage a CAD resource to produce engineering drawings.
• Ability to manage and mentor junior engineers including training and development.
• Line management responsibilities.
• Ability to foster and develop positive relationships through support of business partners and key clients.
• Extensive experience in feasibility, outline, and detailed design.
• Extensive experience proposal fee/hours estimation for design schemes.
• Extensive experience conducting technical reviews.
• Commercial and contractual awareness.
• Desire to understand and promote the Company purpose, vision, values, and culture.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft (Office) 365 packages.
• An industry applicable BEng, BSc, or equivalent in an electrical discipline.
• Chartered Engineer or working towards this. Relevant experience will also be considered.

Personal qualities:

• Recognition that satisfying the customer is the key to achieving other objectives, and that customers include everyone receiving benefits from our processes, whether end-users or other departments within the company.
• Ability to work remotely whilst successfully achieving deliverable-based outcomes through a virtual team.
• Ability to prioritise a varied workload and demonstrate good time management to comply with deadlines.
• Organised, structured and professional, with a passion for excellence.
• Encouraging and motivating those around you to work to your own high standards of quality and compliance.
• Desire for continual learning and drive to improve those around you by sharing information, lessons learnt and best practice.
• Being driven to push yourself and work outside of your comfort zone when the need arises with a "can do" attitude, willingness to work through problems and make decisions.
• Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with colleagues and clients.
• Good interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Trustworthy and ethical approach, exercising discretion where required.
• An industry applicable BEng, BSc, or equivalent in electrical engineering.
• Chartered Engineer or working towards this. Relevant experience will also be considered.

Examples of work types:

• Site surveys and assessments of the capacity of the plant to meet future demands.
• Feasibility, outline, and detailed electrical design, including P&IDs, instrument schedule, load schedules, load assessments, MCC specifications, cable calculations, system architectures, user requirement specifications, fault studies, block cable diagrams, single line diagrams, earthing diagrams, I/O schedules, loop diagrams, SCADA and telemetry design and lightning assessments.
• Technical report writing at all stages of the project lifecycle.
• Production of general arrangement drawings and detail electrical design drawings.
• Support fee proposals or offers of service; development of activity schedules/work plans.
• Understanding of DSEAR, CDM, WIMES, British and European Standards and other statutory, regulatory, and non-regulatory provisions and guidance.
• Participation in Hazard Studies including HAZOP, HAZCON and HAZCOM.
• Development of standard and bespoke design solutions for the water industry and beyond.
• Check and review calculations and reports prepared by others.
• Considering CAPEX and OPEX implications of design decisions at all stages of a project.

Qualifications Desirable Skills/Attributes:

• Undertaking Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA).
• Undertaking Safety Integrity Level (SIL) Assessments.
• Undertaking DSEAR assessments.
• Experience with AMTECH/TRIMBLE to produce cable calculations, cable schedules, fault studies and discrimination studies.
• Experience with AutoCAD although not essential.
• Experience with HV electrical systems design and specification, although not essential.
• Knowledge of United Utilities engineering standards and specification.

What we would like to offer you:

• Competitive salary + discretionary bonus
• Company pension
• 25 days annual leave