Principal Engineer (Smartgrids) in Glasgow

At Arcadis we focus on attracting, retaining and developing people who share our passion and commitment to improve quality of life. In return we offer you the opportunity to transform your world and the world around you, that could be through client work, upskilling yourself, championing equality and inclusion or getting involved in charity work, to name just a few. Our people value different perspectives, they care about the sustainability of our planet and dare to shape the future. One of our core values is ‘people first’, and supported by our Lovinklaan foundation, we invest in you for the long term, to ensure you reach your full potential. You’ll have the opportunity to own your career and work on industry-defining projects, finding solutions to real challenges that make a difference to people’s lives. You’re encouraged to have a growth mindset and are given the space to develop personally and professionally, building a flexible career that works for you.

Role description:

• Provide technical leadership within the Smartgrids team, acting as technical engineering lead on projects including distribution network design, private network design, renewable generation connection design and electrical systems control and automation.
• Establish and consolidate relationships in a client facing role, assist the workstream lead in the delivery of the region’s technical capability and support multidisciplinary project delivery.
• Support the development of Arcadis capability in the Smartgrids area and build and maintain an engineering professional reputation.
• Take a leadership role within the project team, providing direction, managing and co-ordinating and leading on delivery.
• Work with the Smartgrids lead, HR and other internal and external resources, to implement training of team members, encourage their growth, provide direction and facilitate professional development.
• Manage the multidisciplinary technical delivery of projects in accordance with Management Systems to meet time, quality, budgetary, programme and health and safety targets.
• Manage all aspects of the client relationship so that engineering delivery meets technical compliance and/or exceeds client expectations.
• Work to ensure maximum client satisfaction, champion client care and proactively work with clients to provide resource and capability support delivery.
• Promote both the regional and global culture of the Arcadis Smartgrids business.
• Provide temporary embedded support to major clients as required.

Role accountabilities:

• Promote continual improvement in SHE performance across the business and lead and manage by example.
• Build relationships with clients to identify and realise new business opportunities as part of Smartgrid business development.
• Ensure that client delivery meets expectations providing customer satisfaction while meeting Arcadis’ project commercial objectives.
• Engage with and champion the involvement and inclusion of Arcadis Global Engineering Capability (GEC) Design resources, facilitating two-way performance feedback with support from project teams.
• Provide Smartgrids subject area technical leadership and support as required.
• Assist the Smartgrids lead in the evaluation of technical competence of staff proposed for projects and identify any additional support, mentoring or training to upskill as required.
• Take technical line management responsibility for the development and performance management of team members to support the delivery of Arcadis’ business.
• Support recruitment process and be personally involved in the selection and interview process for new engineering staff within the Smartgrids team.
• Alongside the Smartgrids team lead, lead on the design of innovative engineering solutions for clients that resolve complex problems.
• Coach and mentor fellow engineering professionals to support the development of Arcadis’ talent pool.
• Perform independent technical review and assurance for major projects.
• Encourage innovative and entrepreneurial thinking amongst team members.
• Manage new project tendering/proposal process, co-ordinating multidisciplinary design input following all pursuit Arcadis governance.
• Promote effective and efficient bid management and lead or contribute to Go-No-Go discussions.
• Provide input into specific technical aspects of individual bids to support the production of high-quality winning pursuits.
• Keep up to date with developments in the industry sector and with technical and legislative developments and seek out suitable opportunities to develop a strong professional profile at a national level.
• Maintain records of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and make these available for audit by their professional institution.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Significant knowledge and track record in Smartgrids, distribution grid and private networks engineering and/or renewable generation connection delivery role.
• A minimum 2:1 degree in Electrical Engineering or Renewable Energy discipline.
• Membership of a professional engineering body e.g., the IET.
• Chartered Engineering status with an appropriate professional engineering body, or the ability to achieve this in future.
• Significant knowledge and track record in the development and delivery of Smartgrid, distribution grid and private networks and/or renewable generation connections projects.
• Demonstrable experience in the multidisciplinary delivery of Smartgrid, distribution grid and private network and/or renewables connection projects.
• Knowledge of Grid, DNO, British, IEC and ENA Standards.
• Knowledge of the modelling, analysis and calculation software used to validate and verify designs as appropriate.
• Awareness of the project delivery cycle to different unique client and customer delivery requirements.
• Proactive personal and team development by engaging in activities promoted by appropriate UK professional institutions.
• Able to communicate new concepts and ideas to technical and non-technical colleagues including effective use of English verbally and in writing.
• Strong consulting skills including project management and client relationship management at senior management level.

Why Become an Arcadian?

Our work with clients has a direct impact on people’s lives and on the planet. We make moving, living and belonging in cities safer, more resilient and more sustainable. By partnering with our clients as responsible custodians of our earth's resources, we can create a sustainable planet. We continue to think of new ways to make positive impacts and create better experiences for people; data driven and digital solutions have become part of the Arcadis DNA. Working together with clients and using techniques like design thinking, we can get to the heart of our clients’ most pressing challenges and work together to solve them. As a global business, we have committed to support five of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to ensure that our projects contribute to a better and more sustainable future for all. But it’s not just the work that we do on client projects that benefits communities and our planet. As a global business, we are committed to making a positive impact to society by supporting local communities where we operate. To help protect our planet, we monitor and measure non-financial information to inform business decisions and reduce our own environmental impact as part of our commitment to be net zero carbon as a global company by 2030.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging:

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.