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A leading company in the UK seeks a Principal Electrical Engineer for Defence and Nuclear Energy projects. This hybrid role involves producing electrical design deliverables and leading projects while mentoring junior team members. Ideal candidates will have significant engineering experience and appropriate qualifications.
Job DescriptionJob Description
This is an exciting and challenging role where you will perform the Principal Electrical Engineer role on a range of Defence and Nuclear Energy projects from Concept Studies through to Detailed Design provide a variety of interesting work.
Working predominantly for our Defence and Nuclear Energy clients there may also be a requirement to support work across other sectors within Costain. Industries can range across Water, Transport and Energy including Green Energy, Nuclear and Oil and Gas
Working in a multi-disciplinary team delivering projects in the Nuclear Sector, you will be responsible for the production of electrical design deliverables including analysis, calculations, reports and specifications.
Taking responsibility for leading projects and sub tasks from a technical perspective.
Communicating designs effectively to electrical engineer and designers, other disciplines, construction personnel and stakeholders.
Hybrid role with a mix of remote and site/office based work.
Attendance occasionally required for site visits, design reviews and client meetings, mainly within the Northwest region.
You will also support and guide more junior team members. You will challenge and deliver value engineering solutions so you will need to be confident and assertive in front of clients.
Responsibilities
As a client facing Principal Engineer, your responsibilities will/may involve:
More specific tasks could include:
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
About Us
Costain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase.
We do share individual feedback following an interview.
A Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.
It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.
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