Electrical Design Engineer (Water & Wastewater)

Poutrix; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a proactive Electrical Design Engineer to join their MEICA team. In this role, you will contribute to various water and wastewater projects across the UK, applying your expertise in electrical engineering and digital design techniques. You will work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring projects meet technical and environmental standards. This position offers a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact on sustainable design and engineering solutions, helping to protect our natural environment while powering future generations. Join a forward-thinking company dedicated to equality, diversity, and inclusion, and create a legacy that matters.

Qualifications

• Degree in Electrical Engineering or related field required.
• 2+ years of experience in water and wastewater projects preferred.

Responsibilities

• Deliver complex electrical designs for water and wastewater projects.
• Lead multi-disciplinary teams and ensure project compliance with standards.

Skills

Electrical Engineering

Design and Construct Projects

Digital Design Techniques

Project Management

Education

Degree in Electrical Engineering

Incorporated or Chartered Engineer Status

Job description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated toimproving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

We are currently recruiting for a proactive and enthusiastic Electrical Design Engineer to join our MEICA team. You'll play an active role to contribute and apply your skills on a variety of water and wastewater projects for our clients regionally and across the UK as we move into AMP 8.

The role itself sits within our Resilience Global Business Area, where we work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we’re feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we’re seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.

Role accountabilities:

• Ability to work independently and as a team member carrying out production and checking complex electrical detailed designs including calculations, specifications, reports, and drawings.
• Supporting and / or Leading design and advisory services relating to new and existing water and wastewater process plants, pumping stations and ancillary assets.
• Technical delivery of multi-disciplinary projects, in a Design Lead capacity where assigned, using latest digital design techniques.
• Identify and develop innovative and optimised technical solutions based on client needs and drivers
• Lead and co-ordinate work with multi-disciplinary teams (e.g., process, civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, and ICA)
• Establish and grow relationships with clients and capital alliance partners on project technical, commercial and progress matters
• Ensuring projects meet required technical, legislative, quality, safety and environmental standards and objectives.
• Capturing key project and technical knowledge, including innovations.
• Internally promote and share project achievements and developments.
• Mentoring, performance, and technical supervisor responsibility for assigned staff.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Degree in Electrical Engineering or other directly related degree
• Desired: Incorporated or Chartered Engineer status and membership of a professional institution such as IET, InstMC or CIWEM or working towards and nearing application (IEng or CEng).
• At least 2 years’ experience and track record in technical delivery of process plant systems on complex engineering projects, preferably related to water and wastewater industry.
• Experience of working on design and construct projects using digital design

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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