Principal Electrical Engineer, Water Engineering in Birmingham

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world's most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

Are you ready to shape the future of water infrastructure? We are looking for a Principal Electrical Engineer to join our established and growing Water Team with opportunities to be based across our North and Midlands offices - Birmingham, Chesterfield, Leeds and Manchester - while also benefiting from our flexible hybrid working model.

Here's what you'll do:

• Electrical Design: Lead, manage and review the design of electrical and ICA elements in wastewater and water infrastructure/treatment projects, including site visits to carry out site surveys and the support of liaisons with clients, contractors & suppliers, Load Schedules, Single Line Diagrams, MCC General Arrangements, Instrument Schedules, Electrical Installation and Cable Calculations, PLC/SCADA systems, Control Philosophy, URS, Specifications, and Technical Reports, Input to P&ID's, Site Surveys, and Data Gathering exercises.
• Project Stages: Engage in all design stages, including Feasibility, Outline, Detail, and Construction Design, ensuring compliance with National and International Design Standards.
• Collaboration: Work closely with other discipline teams both locally and nationwide to deliver high-quality technical solutions.
• Project Delivery: Ensure the delivery of quality designs within agreed budgets and timelines, supporting a range of AECOM's clients, including Severn Trent Water, Yorkshire Water, Wessex Water, South West Water, Southern Water, Thames Water, and Irish Water.

AECOM's digital strategy is driving the adoption of global digital solutions internally in our design process, to improve quality and consistency and streamline activities. You will help shape these digital offerings and use them on projects, including BIM, Projectwise, intelligent P&ID's and AECOM's own tools developed in-house, such as our pumping station generator.

Join our team, where we don't just construct infrastructure but also uplift communities and enhance lives. Become part of our dynamic Water business, which boasts around 600 experts across the UK & Ireland, including 300 specialists across our England & Wales Water team. Collaborate with top-tier civil, mechanical, electrical, and process engineers to deliver a variety of captivating projects, from small initiatives to large-scale ventures, all the way from concept to completion. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

Extensive design experience in managing the technical delivery of large-scale water engineering projects with multi-disciplinary knowledge. BEng or MEng in a related engineering field with experience in water and wastewater treatment. Chartered Member of a relevant Professional Institution. Proven experience in team leadership, mentoring and line management. Experience of managing projects, delegating tasks and technical mentoring. Strong collaboration and coordination skills between teams, clients and stakeholders.

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at ReasonableAccommodations@aecom.

At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives. AECOM is committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and takes any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

AECOM is the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities.

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you're working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed. AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role.