Principle Electrical Engineer

Salary Banding -£49,000- £75,000 Includes travel allowance (£4560)

Competitive salary + benefits

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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?

Youâ ll collaborate with the industryâ s best, working with a wide range of built-environment specialists.

Youâ ll be part of progressive and exciting projects, able to experience innovative schemes across all sectors.

Youâ 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. More shall be detailed within the intervie

· Sometimes the role involves surveying existing systems or buildings; assessing them against standards and life safety compliance; peer reviewing someone elseâ s engineering and more

· Itâ s also breadthwise; itâ 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 identity 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

To reward your hard work and commitment we offer both core and flexible benefits, a competitive salary and industry-leading training and development to support you throughout your career.

Core benefits