Engineer

Kier Group; Chalfont St. Peter; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction engineering firm in the UK is seeking a Major Projects Electrical Engineer to join their Design team. This role involves supporting electrical design for large and complex construction projects, leading a team, and ensuring sustainable and compliant solutions. The ideal candidate will hold a degree in Electrical Engineering and have experience in project design and quality assurance. This opportunity includes competitive benefits and professional growth within a diverse and inclusive work environment.

Benefits

Competitive annual holiday entitlement

Matched pension scheme

Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans

Qualifications

• Degree in Electrical Building Services Engineering or Electrical Engineering and member of CIBSE or IET.
• Ability to pass the BPSS requirements.
• High level of knowledge and experience in electrical engineering.

Responsibilities

• Support electrical design for large construction projects.
• Lead the electrical design team, ensuring quality control.
• Deliver co-ordinated design solutions through project completion.

Skills

Technical advice in electrical building services engineering

Communication of complex technical concepts

Experience in quality procedures and document control

Education

Degree in Electrical Building Services Engineering or Electrical Engineering

Job description

We're looking for a Major Projects Electrical Engineer to join our Design team based in Gerrards Cross / Speke. Kier Design are a top-25 engineering consultancy, delivering a wide range of services across all sectors of the built environment, providing construction-focused, innovative and sustainable solutions. We have preferential access to Kier's £11bn+ project pipeline, including mega projects like High Speed 2 and Hinkley Point C, frameworks with national and local government and other public bodies, and a range of other interesting projects in every sector of the built environment.

We believe in building teams around our people, rather than squeezing people into our teams, we want to help you carve out a role in which you'll grow and thrive for many years to come. Offering market-leading development opportunities, supporting our graduates through the early stages of their careers, enabling our people to become professionally qualified, providing management training and qualifications, and supporting ongoing technical development throughout our people's careers. Actively promoting, so you can keep pushing and stretching yourself. Within this role, you can enjoy competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy leave, a fantastic, matched pension scheme, a share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans and even more.

Location: Gerrards Cross / Speke

Hours: 40 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us

What will you be responsible for?

As Major Projects Electrical Engineer, you'll be working within the Mechanical Electrical and Technology team, supporting the electrical design for large, complex construction projects, ensuring sustainable, compliant, and cost-effective design delivery from concept through to construction, bridging client needs with engineering reality. Leading the electrical design team, integrating different disciplines, ensuring quality control, and driving innovation for high-value projects.

Your day to day will include:

• Providing high level technical advice in electrical building services engineering, supporting electrical engineering in project design meetings, establishing solutions, agreeing concepts and working closely with colleagues and other design team members
• Delivering co-ordinated design solutions to the end of projects.
• Taking an active role in developing standards and best practice to share with colleagues across the professional excellence teams in the Property & Assets business.
• Making proposals and developing innovative solutions and proposals enhancing the M&E service, implementing agreed initiatives such as BIM.
• Maintaining effective and regular communication with senior management on all matters affecting output, progress, cost and risks.

What are we looking for?

• Degree in Electrical Building Services Engineering or Electrical Engineering and member of CIBSE or IET, Chartered Engineer or working towards becoming chartered.
• Experience demonstrating the capability to fulfil the accountabilities of the role, high level of knowledge and experience in your discipline.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts into more readily understood information suitable for a wider business audience, experience in the application of quality procedures and document control in engineering design.
• Ability to pass the BPSS (Baseline Personnel Security Standard) requirements.

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier

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