Principle Electrical Engineer in London

Our clients Operational Engineering team in London are seeking a Principal Electrical Engineer.

Salary Banding - £49,000- £75,000 Includes travel allowance (£4560) Competitive salary + benefits.

Our client is an award-winning engineering consultancy with a creative team of engineers, designers and technical specialists. They provide innovative solutions to complex engineering and design challenges for buildings. Irrespective of the scale or complexity of a project, they provide a full range of MEP, environmental and sustainability services, bringing buildings to life and ensuring that they perform in operation as well as they look.

Why join the team?

• You’ll collaborate with the industry’s best, working with a wide range of built-environment specialists.
• You’ll be part of progressive and exciting projects, able to experience innovative schemes across all sectors.
• You’ll advance your career, your way, thanks to our structured Career Paths framework.

The role:

• You will be working on a varied portfolio of projects both in the UK and Internationally.
• Providing technical advice to clients on the operation of electrical/mechanical engineering services in existing buildings.
• Preparing Fee Proposals.
• Delivering refurbishment and upgrade projects from inception to completion.
• Undertaking condition surveys of electrical/mechanical installations and producing written reports and recommendations.
• Developing and producing electrical/mechanical designs and specifications, ensuring quality and technical quality standards are met.
• Production of Feasibility Studies for electrical/mechanical infrastructure replacement or upgrade.
• Technical Due Diligence Reporting.
• Ensuring that all work under their control is undertaken to relevant and applicable UK and EU regulations, design guides etc.
• Review of development and fit-out proposals and advising client on the implications in relation to the electrical/mechanical services.
• You will have the opportunity to lead electrical services design on large projects, and lead overall MEP on small to medium sized projects within the office.
• In addition to mainstream MEP, we also do retro-fits/overhauls and work on major assets: e.g Generators, HV/LV switchboard replacements, transformer replacement, through to complete primary electrical infrastructure overhauling etc.
• Sometimes the role involves surveying existing systems or buildings; assessing them against standards and life safety compliance; peer reviewing someone else’s engineering and more.
• It’s also breadthwise; it’s wide and varied, but you can also develop depth-wise on specialist systems you like the most.
• Responsible for dealing successfully with Clients and other professionals.
• Awareness of consultant appointment conditions.
• Define and agree brief with Client.
• Competently represents our client at project meetings.
• Manage and prioritise the workload of a project team including specialist groups.
• Host and chair internal project team meetings.
• Contribute to the professional development of individual team members.
• Actively leads self and identifies opportunities and providing support for career development of others.
• Ensure quality standards and technical accuracy is delivered.
• Reporting cost and resource requirements to the team leader on a regular basis.

What we are looking for:

• Excellent technical knowledge in Electrical Design Engineering thorough understanding of Building Services Engineering and interdisciplinary design through all stages of the design process.
• Good experience in use of standards and codes applied in building services.
• Wiring Regulations; Fire Detection Systems; General and Emergency Lighting design knowledge.
• Ability to undertake MEP building services surveys with minimal supervision.
• Ability to peer review in detail with good level of background knowledge of regulatory / standards documentation.
• Acquainted with, and can deliver, parallel projects of all types, sizes and through various RIBA stages.
• Can undertake essential calculations, maximum demands, typical Wm2 and apply electrical theory.
• Good understanding of 3 phase LV systems with reasonable to good understanding of HV systems.
• At least some experience working on projects in existing buildings.
• Ability to develop good relationships with Clients, Project Managers, Managing Agents, and Contractors.
• Previous consultancy experience: you will appreciate the importance of complementary specialisms such as acoustics, fire engineering and computer modelling in the design of buildings.
• Autonomous approach: able to lead small to medium sized projects and able to take a brief from the project lead on large projects and deliver & control the tasks required.
• Responsible for the quality of our outputs.
• Appreciation of client needs, with ability to face clients.
• Ability to identify when outsourcing is required e.g., design & CAD work.
• Understand and identify resource needs.
• Mentor and supervise junior members of staff.
• Chartered engineer or close to.

Our benefits:

• Private medical scheme.
• Life Assurance.
• Income protection.
• Travel Allowance – electric car scheme.
• 25 days annual leave, increasing to 30 with length of service.
• Contributory pension scheme.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Enhanced Paternity, Maternity & Shared Parental Leave.
• Season Ticket Loans.
• Professional membership subscription.