Lead Electrical Engineer - Wastewater

At Jacobs, we are challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world’s most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing. Your impact is at the forefront of the biggest transformation and investment programme of the UK sector in decades. Jacobs, along with our JV partners and customers, brings together exceptional talent and expertise to deliver complex turnkey solutions from concept, feasibility, and planning to design, construction management, commissioning and through life asset O&M management.

In these roles, you won’t just witness this transformation — you’ll facilitate it. You will be an integral part of our UK team shaping the future of the water industry by delivering high value complex innovative and sustainable solutions that protect resources and build resilience. From feasibility and planning to advanced design, construction, and commissioning, you will play a critical role in projects such as pumping stations, treatment plants, and associated CAPEX assets, ensuring compliance with regulatory and safety standards.

Your remit will include:

• Deliver Electrical Engineering Excellence: Contribute to or lead electrical engineering elements of multidisciplinary projects from concept through completion.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with internal teams and external stakeholders to identify requirements and deliver solutions that meet contract-specific KPIs and milestones.
• Design & Specification: Develop and produce detailed electrical designs, drawings, and specifications for water sector projects.
• Quality & Safety: Embed constructability and commissioning requirements into designs, ensuring technical delivery complies with regulatory and safety standards.
• Governance and Compliance: Ensure all design solutions meet relevant standards, codes, and client specifications.
• Technical Analysis: Investigate and analyse existing assets, identifying opportunities for improvements.
• Innovation & Add Value: Participate in and contribute to value engineering and buildability workshops.
• Project Management: Depending on experience, contribute to design management, scheduling, risk management, change control, and financial forecasting.
• Team & Culture: Foster a culture of knowledge sharing, innovation, mentoring and professional growth within the electrical discipline.

Here’s what you’ll need:

• Professional Membership: Working toward or holding chartered status (e.g., IEEE or equivalent).
• Experience: Demonstrable progressive experience in the delivery of detailed design and Design & Build solutions for water, wastewater, and bioresources projects.
• Technical Knowledge: Strong understanding and knowledge of electrical engineering principles, project lifecycle from concept through to commissioning and operations.
• Design Tools: Proficient with CAD and electrical design packages, AutoCAD, Revit, ETAP, SKM etc.
• Commercial Awareness: Understanding of project budgets, change and cost control.

Joining Jacobs connects you locally and globally. Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and belonging. We put people at the heart of our business, and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees.

We aim to embed inclusion and belonging in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected and creative. We accept people for who they are, and we champion the richness of different perspectives, lived experiences and backgrounds in the workplace, as a source of learning and innovation.