Senior Principal Electrical engineer in Chertsey

Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. is a Fortune 500 manufacturer of industrial gases. For more than 75 years we've been helping our customers to become more productive, energy efficient and sustainable. With approximately 20,000 employees and operations in 50 countries, we serve customers across a wide range of industries from food and beverage to medical, energy and transportation. We supply a unique portfolio of atmospheric and process gases, equipment and services.

From our European Technical headquarters we design, construct, and manage large scale industrial gas plants for a wide range of technologies, including air separation, hydrogen generation, CO2, and liquid hydrogen. We also provide a comprehensive range of engineering services and solutions to support more than 150 Air Products assets across Europe, Middle East, Africa and India. This includes Air Products owned plants and those designed and constructed for our customers.

To grow and sustain our operations business, we are seeking an experienced Senior or Principal Electrical Engineer to expand the electrical engineering expertise within our European engineering team. Based in our Chertsey office, this opportunity will suit a talented achiever looking to showcase their skills within a high performing team.

• Provide electrical project leadership, working with the plant project organisation and business areas to develop clearly defined technical scopes and execution strategies for a range of operations projects in Air Separation, HYCO and Generated Gases.
• Identify and prioritise the key electrical deliverables for the above projects, ensuring achievable timescales and estimates are defined.
• Produce, with the assistance of the electrical engineers, the electrical deliverables including; estimates and execution strategies, ensuring these are generated to a high standard and ensure that scope changes/creep/deviations are managed and formally documented and agreed. Drive on time/budget delivery of electrical technical engineering support to projects, prioritising as required.
• Work closely with the various technical disciplines: Controls, machinery, process safety etc, to ensure accurate transfer of information and to manage technical changes during the design process.
• Collaborate with local plant operations and business areas to identify strategies for executing modifications whilst maintaining business continuity.
• Review designs or technical documentation developed by external engineering companies/vendors, ensuring that they meet Air Products requirements for safety, operability and reliability.
• Technical approval of electrical documentation.
• Participate in the electrical safety evaluations for plant modifications.
• Provide senior technical support for Operational Readiness Inspections (ORI), commissioning, startup and performance testing.
• Work with the Air Products engineering organization to provide operations input for new proposals.
• Provide technical supervision and coaching to junior electrical engineers to support their development and growth.
• Optimise and develop work processes to enable effective electrical support to the project portfolio.

• A high level of technical expertise ideally suited to someone with an electrical engineering or related degree with 10+ years relevant technical experience.
• Experience working in an operations environment with onsite plant experience and a practical ‘hands-on’ approach.
• Discipline to work to a schedule and to ensure.
• Manage competing priorities with the ability to adapt.
• Self-motivated with excellent communication skills.
• The ability to work both unsupervised and as part of a technical team.
• Ability to travel on an occasional basis to support site/project activities.

If this sounds like the opportunity you’ve been looking for, we’d like to hear from you. If we like each other we’ll offer you a competitive salary and benefits package and a working environment that thrives on respect, innovation, challenge, and personal and professional development. Hit the ‘APPLY’ button and let’s start a conversation.

Air Products is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We encourage applications from all suitable candidates regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.