Engineer

Kier Group plc.; Gerrards Cross; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering consultancy is seeking an Electrical Engineer to join its Design team in Gerrards Cross. The role involves providing specialist support in the areas of electrical and automation engineering for water treatment projects. Responsibilities include specifying and designing electrical installations, ensuring adherence to safety standards. The ideal candidate must be a Chartered Engineer with extensive experience in the water/wastewater sectors. This position offers opportunities to work on significant projects within a dynamic team.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in water and wastewater industries.
• Ability to work under pressure and make critical decisions.
• Knowledge of relevant Engineering Standards.

Responsibilities

• Specify and design electrical and ICA installations.
• Deliver innovative solutions and value engineering.
• Conduct cable sizing and installation design.

Skills

Electrical design

Project delivery

Safety, Health & Environment (SHE)

Cable design software (Amtech)

Process instrumentation

Education

Chartered Engineer

Membership of IET or IMechE

Tools

Cable calculations

SCADA systems

Job description

Job Overview

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 Electrical Engineer, you'll be working within the Mechanical Electrical and Technology team, providing specialist electrical, instrumentation, control and automation engineering support across potable water treatment works, wastewater treatment works, pumping stations and network assets. The role involves specifying, designing, reviewing and assuring electrical and ICA installations ensuring compliance with statutory requirements, water industry standards, and company engineering specifications. Coordinating design activities, support project delivery, and ensure safe, reliable, compliant and cost‑effective solutions. Your day to day will include:

Responsibilities

• Agreeing electrical and ICA design requirements from the client remit, ensuring it is fully understood, questioning and challenging where necessary, supporting electrical and ICA design including outline design, feasibility studies, production and evaluation of concepts; focused on buildability, efficiency and innovation; enabling cost estimates to be developed.
• Delivering innovative alternative solutions and value engineering, enhancing Kier's competitive position, producing and checking technical specifications, functional design specifications (FDS), control philosophies, panel schedules, cable calculations and instrumentation schedules.
• Specifying LV electrical equipment including MCCs, motor starters, drives (VSDs/soft starts), transformers, standby generation interfaces and power distribution panels, site visits, surveys and inspections, reporting and advising on SHE issues; attending internal and external meetings on Kier's behalf; periodically working as an embedded part of tender and construction teams.
• Carrying out cable sizing and cable installation design, including current-carrying capacity, voltage drop, fault level calculations, earthing and bonding requirements, specifying field instrumentation: flow, pressure, level, turbidity, dissolved oxygen, ammonia, pH, chlorine, temperature, sludge instruments and general process transmitters.
• Providing ICA input for telemetry, SCADA, PLC, RTU and network communication architectures, developing control system logic, setpoints, alarms and interlocks in collaboration with process engineers and operational teams.

Qualifications

• Chartered Engineer; Membership of appropriate Professional Body (IET or IMechE), bring extensive experience within the water, wastewater or process related industries, including hydraulic design and pumping systems.
• Experience and detailed knowledge of SHE (Safety, Health & Environment) requirements, detailed knowledge of all relevant Engineering Standards.
• Have the ability to work under pressure, making critical decisions, competent with cable design software (Amtech) and interpretation of P&IDs, SLDs and loop diagrams.
• Ability to pass the BPSS (Baseline Personnel Security Standard) requirements.

We're looking for a Electrical Engineer to join our Design team based in Salford / Birmingham / Gerrards Cross. 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.

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.