Senior Electrical Engineer - Building Services (Travel) in London

This is an exciting opportunity for a Building Services Senior Electrical Engineer with a leading International multi-disciplinary design consultancy in Central London. They are one of the UK’s Top Employers for 5 years in a row according to Top Employer Institute. Their multi-disciplined team includes MEP (30 strong), Environmental Design & Sustainability, VT, and Architectural Design Lighting. They are involved in high profile and prestigious projects all over the world across a variety of sectors so the role may involve some travel.

Responsibilities:

• Represent the company in a professional and diligent manner at all times.
• Provide discipline leadership.
• Establish and maintain strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, design team, authorities, utilities and associated organisations.
• Attend all meetings with clients, project teams, contractors etc.
• Undertake and deliver high quality detailed engineering design for electrical building services and power distribution systems, including calculations, analysis, schematics, drawings, diagrams, models, specifications and other documents required.
• Review and manage projects from inception to post construction duties.
• Have good knowledge of relevant legislations, standards, regulations, guides and good practice.
• Ensure thorough knowledge of compliance procedures and standards.
• Contribute and assist, as required by the Project Leader or Senior Partner, or nominated Engineer.
• Support and champion equity, diversity & inclusion (EDI) as a collective workforce responsibility, integrating EDI into all workstreams where relevant.

Skills:

Required:

• Able to demonstrate ability to undertake the above responsibilities.
• Legally able to work in the country in which the position is based.
• Qualified as a Chartered Engineer or working towards Chartered status.
• Solid technical understanding of own core engineering discipline and the role of the electrical engineer within the design team.
• Broad understanding of other engineering disciplines engaged in the design of the built environment.
• Good understanding of UK Building Regulations and industry standard design reference material.
• Ability to use Autodesk Revit, Amtech/Trimble, Dialux and Microsoft ‘Office’ suite.
• Able to use initiative in response to demands of the project.
• Able to negotiate and communicate well in graphical, written or verbal forms including the ability to listen and understand others.
• Ability to understand and formulate design decisions.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Developed problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Able to manage sensitive and sometimes confidential information.
• Self-motivated and able to take responsibility.
• Able to demonstrate initiative and a proactive approach to daily tasks.
• Good interpersonal skills and able to work independently and as part of an effective team.
• Flexible attitude.
• Able to build good relationships at all levels, internally and externally.
• Resilient to cope with conflicting demands, able to prioritise duties and work effectively under pressure.
• Able to work as part of an effective team assisting and supporting team members.

Desirable:

• International project experience.
• LEED qualified or having working familiarity with environmental assessment methods.
• Familiarity with CIBSE design standards.
• Ability to use some of the following software applications: IES, Elevate, AGI, Relux, Hevacomp, Adobe Creative Suite.
• Mandarin, Cantonese or mainland European language skills.