Principal Electrical Engineer (Water)

Sweco; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible and hybrid working (Flexworks

Competitive pension contribution

Life Assurance

Private Medical Insurance

Company car or car allowance

Discretionary Annual Bonus Scheme

25 days holiday + bank holidays (+5)

Cycle2Work Scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Sweco Benefit Select discounts

Salary Sacrifice Electric Vehicle

Tree planting for all new starters

Job summary

Sweco is seeking a Principal Electrical Engineer to provide technical direction across the discipline for AMP8 projects in the UK. You will guide design teams, ensure regulatory compliance, and mentor engineers while delivering robust, sustainable electrical solutions.

You will work in a hybrid environment with involvement across project design teams, construction phases, and client interfaces. The role emphasizes leadership, compliance, and delivering high-quality outcomes.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree or equivalent, Chartered status preferred.
• Experience with water-sector assets and capital projects.
• Knowledge of relevant regulations, standards and codes of practice.
• Proven leadership, mentoring and coaching of engineers.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide engineering direction to discipline engineers and ensure fit-for-purpose designs.
• Collaborate with design managers to align milestones and reviews.
• Review specifications, drawings and models for quality and safety compliance.
• Mentor junior engineers and share technical expertise.
• Support CDM, commissioning strategy meetings and project timelines.
• Drive sustainability, low-carbon designs and offsite/offsite solutions.

Skills

Leadership experience

Mentoring junior engineers

Stakeholder engagement

Regulatory & standards knowledge

Education

Electrical engineering degree

Tools

3D models

Drawings and datasheets

Job description

Job Description

We are gearing up for our most exciting and challenging Asset Management Period yet, known as AMP8, this will see us deliver a programme of work larger than we’ve ever delivered before. We’ll be embarking on a new kind of project delivery focusing on nature-based solutions like wetlands and urban drainage schemes.

We are driving change, empowering us to set global benchmarks and build a better environment, with the opportunity to offer enhanced growth and development to our workforce. We’re looking to build on our existing teams with an environment built for career progression.

With such an exciting portfolio of projects planned for AMP8 to keep the water flowing across the region, our ability to manage our work and outperform against our customer’s expectations will come under greater scrutiny.

We need aspiring driven talent to help us achieve our ambitious targets, are you ready to join us as we prepare to deliver the most creative and innovative AMP we have ever seen?

About Sweco

Transforming society together, we're planning and designing sustainable communities and cities of the future.

Solving the great societal challenges of our time is more relevant, demanding and inspiring than ever before. At Sweco, we bring together experts with different perspectives and skills to develop solutions that address the challenges of urbanisation, harness the positive power of digitalisation and make societies more sustainable.

We offer our clients a combination of global expertise and local presence, adapted to their business and reality. Our ambition is to be our clients’ most relevant partner, working together to help them solve their challenges, today and into the future.

To ensure we support our objectives of collaboration across the business whilst providing our workforce with the agility to achieve a healthy work/ life balance, we are asking our employees to have office or site presence on an average of three days a week.

As Principal Electrical Engineer, you’ll provide engineering technical direction to the discipline engineers in your area. You’ll provide design support for schemes and ensure all designs are fit for purpose and meet current legislation and standards.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Regularly report to the Discipline Head.
• Collaborate with Principal Engineer, Portfolio Design Managers and Project Design Managers to acquire upcoming project milestones and design review dates.
• Check specifications, schedules, datasheets, drawings, and 3D models to ensure quality, safety, and technical standards are adhered to.
• Coach and mentor junior and less experienced members of the electrical team.
• Review construction site and supply chain design queries and change requests to ensure quick but accurate responses and/or the design remains suitable.
• Input into Construction Design management (CDM) and commissioning strategy meetings.
• Update and collaborate with the Principal Engineer and Design Managers where potential improvements can be implemented.
• Liaise with other departments and project teams with respect to design requirements.
• Manage quality through the design workflow review in line with the project timeline.
• Support other leads and discipline engineers to deliver their engineering outputs to time and quality standards.
• Drive sustainability and low carbon designs
• Drive offsite build, modular construction, and repeatable solutions.

About You

You will ideally have:

• Engineering, or equivalent, degree or be able to demonstrate a degree level of knowledge through relevant experience and preferably be Chartered, or working towards, Chartered status
• Experience of water-sector assets and capital projects is essential
• Comfortable demonstrating your knowledge of all relevant regulations, standards, and codes of practice
• Experience of leadership, mentoring and coaching of junior engineers
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills

Let’s transform society together at Sweco.

Employee Benefits

• Flexible and hybrid working (Flexworks Policy)
• Competitive pension contribution
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical Insurance
• Company car or car allowance
• Discretionary Annual Bonus Scheme
• Payment of two relevant professional subscriptions
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (with the option to purchase up to 5 additional days per year)
• Cycle2Work Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme (wellbeing, mental health, financial and work advice)
• Employee discounts via Sweco Benefit Select (Faircare)
• Salary Sacrifice Electric Vehicle Scheme
• We plant a tree for all new starters!

A collaborative alliance, driving change. Empowering us to set global benchmarks and building a better environment for our customers. We strive to:

Empower our people; Delight our Customers; Embrace digital transformation; Deliver brilliance.

To bring environmental and social prosperity to the region we serve through our commitment to Love Every Drop we:

Build trust; Do the right thing; Are always exploring

Let’s transform society together at Sweco.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

It’s important to us that all our colleagues thrive at work - we strive to have a friendly and inclusive culture which respects the contribution individuals can bring to Sweco. We aim to promote equality, inclusivity and diversity for everyone.

Here at Sweco we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity.

We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant to ensure those who serve or have served, and their families, are treated fairly. To find out more .

We are an accredited Real Living Wage Employer which reflects our commitment to fair pay and support for all colleagues.

We are also proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer, and will interview applicants covered by the Equality Act 2010 that opt into the guaranteed interview scheme on the application form and meet the minimum criteria for the role.

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