Principal Electrical Engineer

Join VVB: Where Quality and Excellence meet. Are you ready to be part of a team that delivers top-notch mechanical, electrical, and telecommunication engineering solutions? Look no further than VVB, where expertise and experience converge to create sustainable solutions across Rail, Highways, Power, and Tunnels.

At VVB, we're more than just engineers- we're collaborators, innovators, and stewards of our environment. Our projects are guided by our CORE values:

• C-Care & Collaboration
• O-Opportunity & Ownership
• R-Responsibility & Respect
• E-Excellence & End Result Focus

Join us in shaping the future of infrastructure while upholding these values at every turn.

WHAT WE OFFER

• Competitive salaries with yearly appraisals
• Expenses covered for assignments outside your base location
• Perkbox membership for 24/7 access to perks, benefits, discounts, and wellbeing tools
• Life Assurance and Private Medical Insurance schemes provided by leading providers
• Generous pension scheme
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (this includes a Christmas shutdown)

ROLE OVERVIEW:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal Electrical Engineer to join our dynamic team. To provide Electrical Engineering support and leadership to projects through design to completion. This will involve all stages from tendering, design, installation, testing, commissioning and handover. Management of Electrical installations throughout the projects to ensure successful delivery from a HSE, programme, quality, compliance and commercial perspective.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Supervise design and engineering activities across multiple disciplines on projects, overseeing a team of engineers, design managers, lead engineers, specialists and BIM/CAD technicians.
• Proficient in low and high voltage electrical design (up to 33kV level) inline with all current standards.
• Key considerations should be safety, maintainability, ease of installation, design sustainability and environmental impact.
• Proficient in designing the following typical systems: Lighting, CMS- sizing and layout, Earthing and bonding, UPS, Switchboards/LVAC, VSD's, Lightening protection (support from specialist supplier).
• Undertake electrical design modelling with electrical design programmes e.g. Prodesign-Amtech.
• Undertaking formal electrical design review verification (CAT2 checking) in line with current standards and to ensure buildability and constructability.
• Identify any weakness or errors in the design that could jeopardise the functionality.
• Ensure HSE best practices are always followed.
• Familiarity with PLC control systems, including SCADA and BMS.
• Familiarity with HAZID, HAZOP and HAZCON studies as required.
• Ensure designer risk registers are compliant with installation parameters.
• Provide engineered solutions to key project problems to satisfy clients expectations, project restrictions and budget considerations.
• Management of all associated design registers, meeting minutes, drawing registers appropriate inline VVB and project requirements.
• Ensure all formal communication is undertaken and managed (RFI's, TQ's, EWN's, MAR's etc.).
• Direct liaison with the CAD/BIM team to ensure correct drawing modelling, to BIM or other standards.
• Review drawings for clash detection and associated interface problems.
• Development of scope documents for tenders and procurement processes.
• Liaison with manufacturers to determine product suitability, in partnership with procurement.
• Attendance at FAT and SAT (and any other required stage) to ensure compliance with requirements.
• Direct liaison with installation teams to ensure design suitability, works methodology and solve key installation issues/constructability.
• Working with the commercial department to track design change and variances.
• Working with the planning department to plan design, installation and T&C works.
• Provision of accurate assessment on forecast works to complete and provide suitable readjustments to ensure project programme is maintained.
• Management of subcontractor works as appropriate including assisting commercial department in valuation and contract support.
• Ensure design and works comply with VVB and client quality management systems.
• Keep up to date with all electrical, construction and relevant legislation, law, standards and best practice.

LINE MANAGEMENT DUTIES:

• Management of the electrical engineering and design teams.
• Review and management of the team's time and allocation.
• Training and mentoring of the electrical engineering team.
• Carry out annual performance reviews for the electrical engineers.

PERSON SPECIFICATION:

Technical Knowledge and Skills:

• Knowledge of relevant electrical installations legislation and standards, BIM and design modelling standards and all other associated standards and legislation.
• Knowledge of design processes and associated compliance.
• Utilisation of Electrical design packages (Amtech/Trimble, Cymap etc).
• Design using AutoCAD / Microstation.
• Sustainability awareness.
• Advanced MS Office skills including Excel.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• HND in Electrical Engineering.
• Engineering Council Registration as Chartered Engineer (CEng).
• Registered member of either CIBSE or IET or other recognised Engineering Council Institutions.
• SMSTS.
• CSCS Card – AQP or PQP min.
• Full UK drivers licence.

VVB values the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all prospective and current employees with dignity regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. All employees must demonstrate commitment and enthusiasm in promoting the principles of equality in employment and service delivery.

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