Principal Electrical Critical Systems Engineer

Cundall; London; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job description

The Team

Our dedicated Critical Systems team plays a key role in making mission critical buildings more energy efficient, sustainable, and cost-effective to operate. The team works almost exclusively in the data centre field, keeping abreast of current best practices while researching breakthrough technologies that shape future trends.

Our team is a source of world-leading expertise and offers a proactive and collaborative approach to skill development and professional excellence.

We work closely with our clients to develop, improve, and deploy their standard ‘template’ designs across the world and so have the unique opportunity to influence the future of data centre design. We also work on many bespoke data centre projects.

The Role

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced and client-focused Principal Electrical Engineer to join our critical systems team and play a leading role in ensuring the successful delivery of innovative electrical design solutions on some of the most notable and large-scale data centre projects in the world.

You will collaborate within our critical systems team and work closely with colleagues of various disciplines to help drive and manage the delivery of technically excellent and profitable projects.

The role entails being very closely involved in the design process and production of design deliverables, managing your immediate team of engineers. You will monitor budgets and programmes, check designs, and communicate with the wider project and client team.

You will use your existing expertise, enthusiasm, and dedication to manage, motivate, and inspire your colleagues, including helping to develop less experienced engineers.

You will support, and be supported by, senior staff within the team.

Note: Whilst the preferred location is our London office, we will also consider applications for candidates to be located in the following Cundall office locations: Birmingham, Manchester, or Newcastle.

The Skills

A Chartered Engineer, educated to degree level in Electrical Engineering or Building Services Engineering (MEng or BEng), you have gained significant experience in an electrical engineering role within critical systems/data centres. Equivalent electrical engineering design skills gained in other fields may be considered.

In your most recent position, you have consistently demonstrated your ability to manage small to medium-scale projects and small teams of engineers to deliver to and exceed client expectations.

You have a proven ability in producing electrical designs, including schematic diagrams, layouts, calculations, preparing specifications and project reports, carrying out site inspections and surveys, detail design development, as well as contributing to project meetings. Through this experience, you will support your project teams to deliver excellent electrical designs.

Essential characteristics for the successful candidate include:

• the ability to take ownership of tasks
• the capacity to think around problems and help guide the team towards solutions
• recognition of the importance of collaboration in a multi-disciplinary design environment
• being an organised and confident communicator with client-facing skills.

We know that to be the best at what we do we need a diverse workforce underpinned by an inclusive culture. Creating environments where everyone can find joy doing their best work is also great for everyone. That’s why we positively welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and identities and encourage, support, and celebrate the diverse voices of our people.