Senior Electrical Design Engineer - Water Industry

RPS Group Plc; Risley; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy in water management is seeking a Senior Electrical and ICA Design Engineer to join their team. The successful candidate will manage projects and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams while ensuring high standards of electrical engineering and ICA principles. This role requires a degree in electrical engineering, significant experience in the water industry, and the ability to produce and oversee technical documentation. The position also offers opportunities for mentoring junior staff and engaging in impactful projects across the UK.

Qualifications

• Experience in liaising with clients and developing project plans.
• Able to coordinate multidisciplinary teams for project goals.
• Experienced in producing technical outputs and design drawings.

Responsibilities

• Balance workload across projects.
• Ensure positive project outcomes.
• Support mentoring of junior engineers.
• Prepare electrical and ICA design deliverables.
• Comply with quality assurance systems.

Skills

Electrical engineering principles

Water industry experience

Load assessment and design

P&ID creation

ICA and SCADA architecture

Technical documentation production

Safety regulations compliance

Project management

Education

Degree in electrical engineering

Postgraduate qualifications

Tools

AutoCAD

Similar design software

Job description

We are currently in the market to recruit a Senior Electrical and ICA Design Engineer to join our dynamic and growing Water Consultancy team operating across the UK.

Please read the information in this job post thoroughly to understand exactly what is expected of potential candidates.

You'll work on exciting AMP8 and AMP9 projects, ensuring exceptional water services in a collaborative environment.

RPS, Tetra Tech are actively engaged in several long‑term wastewater programmes across the UK water industry, helping our clients address major pollution and flooding challenges.

As part of these programmes our wastewater consulting team undertake a broad range of projects including urban drainage and water quality modelling studies; WINEP, SOAF, DWMPs and catchment investment planning; and the development of engineering solutions from feasibility through to outline and detailed design.

About the Team

As part of Tetra Tech.

RPS Water Consulting is a team of engineers, designers, modellers, and data analysts providing asset management and operational strategy development, to our water industry clients to support business planning and delivery.

This is an evolving industry, providing challenges and opportunities that require innovation, dedication and teamwork to help us meet our clients' needs.

About You

You will be experienced in liaising with the client to understand fully their needs, interpret their data, and develop a project plan.

You will be able to coordinate multidisciplinary teams to ensure that the project as a whole meets its goals.

You will be experienced in producing technical outputs such as technical specifications, schedules, reports, load and instrument lists, cable sizing calculations, single line diagrams and system architecture layouts, and be familiar with collaborative planning reviews and designs of solutions.

You will be able to provide engineering inputs and design outputs in collaboration with other disciplines, producing general arrangement drawings, 3D models, 2D plans and sections, and piping & instrumentation diagrams.

To be successful in this role, you will have strong communication skills and be able to deliver technical presentations to clients and other design engineers as well as inputting into collaborative design discussions including technical workshops and safety reviews, including HAZOPs and ALMs.

You will understand how water and wastewater treatment processes operate and be experienced in assessing existing site infrastructure to develop and deliver the electrical and ICA design.

By joining us, you're not just taking on exciting projects and collaborating with leading minds.

You're making a meaningful impact on millions of lives in the UK, leaving a legacy for generations to come.

As a valued member of our team, you'll play a crucial role in the water industry, and work with the largest water companies in the UK, ensuring a positive and enduring influence on the communities we serve.

If you're ready to contribute your skills and expertise to a dynamic and innovative environment, we invite you to join us on this exciting journey.

Your responsibilities

• Balance your workload across a wide variety of projects from a range of major long‑term frameworks with water companies and contractors across the UK.
• Seek to achieve positive outcomes for projects and the community.
• Work closely with other senior and principal engineers and other stakeholders supporting project delivery.
• Help to develop the wider team by acting as a mentor and guide to less experienced members, checking their work and providing technical governance and oversight.
• Interpret and understand technical drawings and supervise their production, ideally through AutoCAD and/or Inventor experience.
• Undertake asset condition surveys and prepare reports and recommendations.
• Contribute to the production of process and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs).
• Prepare electrical and ICA design deliverables including calculations, reports, specifications, datasheets, drawings, schedules, and procurement documentation.
• Provide support to allow the project team to comply with the duties of Designer under CDM, including through the production of design risk assessments.
• Ensure quality assurance systems and procedures are followed, and that high standards are maintained.
• Act as a project manager, package manager or design team leader as required.

Skills, knowledge, and experience

• A good technical understanding of electrical engineering and ICA principles.
• Significant water industry experience.
• Load assessment and LV and MV distribution systems design.
• The use of P&IDs to create equipment schedules.
• ICA and SCADA system architecture development.
• Production of URSs, FDSs and control philosophies.
• The production of specifications, reports and technical documentation.
• Complying with the Construction, Design & Management (CDM) Regulations and designing for safety.
• Various methods of contract procurement and engagement, ideally including the NEC forms of contract.
• Managing your work to time, cost, and quality criteria.
• Supporting junior staff in their technical and personal development.
• The ability to travel and visit operational and construction sites as required, to act in a safe manner, and to survey, inspect, and witness test mechanical equipment and installations.
• Knowledge of design tools and software such as AutoCAD or similar design packages would be an advantage but is not essential.

Qualifications

• A degree-level qualification in electrical engineering or a closely‑allied subject, ideally IET‑accredited.
• Postgraduate qualifications are an advantage.
• Chartered engineer or working towards and nearing chartership.