Electrical Design Engineer - Water Industry

RPS Group Plc; England; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy in water services is seeking a Junior Electrical and ICA Design Engineer to join their collaborative Water Consultancy team across the UK. In this role, you will work on diverse projects addressing key water industry challenges. Responsibilities include producing technical outputs, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, and ensuring quality in electrical and ICA design deliverables. The position requires communication skills, a degree in electrical engineering, and familiarity with design tools like AutoCAD. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of significant long-term projects in the water sector.

Qualifications

• Experience in liaising with clients to understand project needs.
• Ability to work within multidisciplinary teams.
• Familiar with producing technical outputs such as specifications, reports, and diagrams.
• Understanding of water and wastewater treatment processes.
• Ability to balance workload across various projects.

Responsibilities

• Produce engineering design outputs in collaboration with disciplines.
• Prepare electrical and ICA design deliverables.
• Contribute to the production of process and instrumentation diagrams.
• Ensure quality assurance systems are followed.
• Manage workloads to meet time, cost, and quality criteria.

Skills

Communication skills

Technical drawing interpretation

Project planning

AutoCAD

Electrical engineering principles

Education

Degree-level qualification in electrical engineering or closely-allied subject

Tools

AutoCAD

Inventor

Job description

We are currently in the market to recruit a Junior Electrical and ICA Design Engineer to join our dynamic and growing Water Consultancy team operating across the UK. You'll work on exciting AMP8 and AMP9 projects, ensuring exceptional water services in a collaborative environment. RPS, Tetra Tech are actively engaged in several long‑term wastewater programmes across the UK water industry, helping our clients address major pollution and flooding challenges. As part of these programmes our wastewater consulting team undertake a broad range of projects including urban drainage and water quality modelling studies; WINEP, SOAF, DWMPs and catchment investment planning; and the development of engineering solutions from feasibility through to outline and detailed design. About The Team: As part of Tetra Tech. RPS Water Consulting is a team of engineers, designers, modellers, and data analysts providing asset management and operational strategy development, to our water industry clients to support business planning and delivery. This is an evolving industry, providing challenges and opportunities that require innovation, dedication and teamwork to help us meet our clients' needs. About You:

• You will have some experience in liaising with the client to understand their needs, interpret their data, and work to project plan. You will be able to work within multidisciplinary teams to ensure that the project as a whole meets its goals.
• You will be experienced in producing technical outputs such as technical specifications, schedules, reports, load and instrument lists, cable sizing calculations, single line diagrams and system architecture layouts, and be familiar with collaborative planning reviews and designs of solutions.
• You will be able to provide engineering inputs and design outputs in collaboration with other disciplines, producing general arrangement drawings, 3D models, 2D plans and sections, and piping & instrumentation diagrams.
• To be successful in this role, you will have good communication skills and be able to input into collaborative design discussions including technical workshops and safety reviews, including HAZOPs and ALMs.
• You will understand the principles of water and wastewater treatment processes and be experienced in assessing existing site infrastructure to develop and deliver the electrical and ICA design.
• Balance your workload across a wide variety of projects from a range of major long‑term frameworks with water companies and contractors across the UK.
• Seek to achieve positive outcomes for projects and the community.
• Work closely with other junior and senior engineers and other stakeholders supporting project delivery.
• Interpret and understand technical drawings and help develop their production, ideally through AutoCAD and/or Inventor experience.
• Undertake asset condition surveys and prepare reports and recommendations.
• Contribute to the production of process and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs).
• Prepare electrical and ICA design deliverables including calculations, reports, specifications, datasheets, drawings, schedules, and procurement documentation.
• Provide support to allow the project team to comply with the duties of Designer under CDM, including through the production of design risk assessments.
• Ensure quality assurance systems and procedures are followed, and that high standards are maintained.
  A good technical understanding of electrical engineering and ICA principles.
• Water industry experience.
• Experienced in:
• Load assessment and LV and MV distribution systems design
• The use of P&IDs to create equipment schedules
• ICA and SCADA system architecture development
• Production of URSs, FDSs and control philosophies
• The production of specifications, reports and technical documentation.
• Complying with the Construction, Design & Management (CDM) Regulations and designing for safety.
• Managing your work to time, cost, and quality criteria.
• The ability to travel and visit operational and construction sites as required, to act in a safe manner, and to survey, inspect, and witness test mechanical equipment and installations.
• Knowledge of design tools and software such as AutoCAD or similar design packages would be an advantage but is not essential. A degree‑level qualification in electrical engineering or a closely‑allied subject, ideally IET‑accredited.