Electrical Project Manager

Lord Search & Selection; England; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Fichtner Consulting Engineers Limited seeks a professional electrical engineer to join its Stockport office. The role involves managing renewable energy projects, requiring knowledge of electrical infrastructure, project delivery, and safety compliance. The company offers a competitive salary, bonus scheme, and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Leading bonus scheme up to 20% of salary

Further vocational qualification support

Electrical vehicle leasing scheme

Private medical & life assurance

Cycle to work scheme

Share purchase option

Team and company social events

Milestone scheme for years spent with the company

Qualifications

• Experience in EHV to LV systems and UK grid connections.
• Ability to attend meetings and write high-quality reports.
• Experience in site and factory acceptance testing.

Responsibilities

• Manage projects for renewable energy developments.
• Coordinate with external and internal clients.
• Provide site-based construction monitoring.

Skills

Project delivery knowledge of renewable projects

Significant knowledge of industrial electrical infrastructure

Excellent understanding of health, safety, and welfare

Education

Good degree in Electrical Engineering

Chartered Engineer or working towards this

Job description

Fichtner Consulting Engineers Ltd is a leading technical consultancy with a reputation built on over 34 years of successful projects in the UK and Ireland. Our purpose is to facilitate the investment and delivery of energy infrastructure projects that positively influence the energy transition. Our success comes from the unique combination of skills and experience that continuously evolves. Our Engineers and Consultants support some of the most innovative energy projects across the UK and Ireland; providing design, intellectual, and engineering services to developers, investors, and owner-operators.

We have over 175 employees that we are proud to have represent us, operating from our offices in Manchester, Belfast, Dublin, and Glasgow. As the business grows from strength to strength, we are now looking to further extend our team by recruiting a professional electrical engineer, as project manager, to be based out of our Stockport office with UK, Ireland and some EU travel.

We are looking for:

An electrical engineer with the following skills and experience.

• a good degree in Electrical Engineering.
• ideally, a Chartered Engineer, or working towards this.
• project delivery knowledge of renewable projects to include any combination of solar PV, BESS, wind, energy from waste, hydrogen, carbon capture, or gas fired generation.
• significant knowledge of industrial electrical infrastructure with experience in EHV to LV, embedded generation, protection circuits, UK grid connections, HV and LV switchgear, substations and coordinating with UK DNOs.
• dealing effectively and professionally with external and internal clients, attending meetings, write and deliver high quality technical reports and models, etc.
• excellent understanding of health, safety and welfare within engineering.
• witnessing of both site and factory acceptance testing.
• ability to assess manufactured or fabricated items for faults.
• the provision of site-based construction monitoring.
• able to work as part of a wider engineering team and also to operate autonomously as required.

What we offer

What you can expect from us:

• A competitive salary with leading bonus scheme of up to 20% of salary
• Further vocational qualification support
• Electrical vehicle leasing scheme
• Private medical & life assurance
• Cycle to work scheme
• Share purchase option
• Team and company social events
• Milestone scheme celebrating years spent as part of the Fichtner team!