Senior Electrical Engineer

Anglian Water @one Alliance

Peterborough

On-site

GBP 50,000 - 60,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

A leading water utility provider in Peterborough seeks a Senior Electrical Engineer to oversee design quality and mentor junior staff. This role involves collaborating on multi-discipline projects and ensuring compliance with regulations. Ideal candidates will have a degree in engineering and experience in the water sector. Join a team dedicated to innovative and sustainable solutions in water infrastructure.

Qualifications

Degree-level knowledge in engineering or relevant experience.
Experience with water-sector assets and capital projects required.
Comfort with relevant regulations and standards.

Responsibilities

Provide engineering technical direction to discipline engineers.
Check and review electrical design deliverables.
Coach and mentor junior engineers.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Knowledge of regulations

Education

Engineering or equivalent degree

Job description

Overview

Join to apply for the Senior Electrical Engineer role at Anglian Water @one Alliance. The @one Alliance is a collaborative partnership of eight industry-leading companies (Anglian Water, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska and SWECO) delivering over half of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme. As we prepare for the challenges and opportunities of AMP8, we’re looking for talented individuals to shape the future of water infrastructure.

At Anglian Water, we’re always exploring — doing the right thing, and building trust through a culture that prioritises health, safety, and wellbeing. We’re committed to recognizing and rewarding our people fairly and transparently.

Your Purpose

As Senior Electrical Engineer within one of our four business units, you’ll provide engineering technical direction to the discipline engineers in your area, and design support for schemes to ensure all designs are fit for purpose and meet current legislation and standards. You’ll be responsible for checking and reviewing electrical design deliverables produced by other electrical engineers in the @one Alliance and supply chain to ensure processes and procedures are followed. You’ll coach and mentor junior engineers.

What You’ll Be Doing

Regularly report to the Principal Engineer.
Collaborate with Principal Engineer, Portfolio Design Managers and Project Design Managers to capture 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 engineers 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 that 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 regarding design requirements.
Manage quality through the design workflow review in line with the project timeline.
Support other leads and discipline engineers to deliver their outputs to time and quality standards.
Drive sustainability and low carbon designs.
Drive offsite build, modular construction, and repeatable solutions.

About You

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

Business Units

Place Based Thinking — manages large, complex projects across multiple catchments and sites, overseeing networks from rising and gravity mains to pumping stations and water recycling centres.
Water — provides strategic support across the clean water network, planning and delivering capital and infrastructure schemes to ensure hydraulic resilience and efficiency.
Water Recycling (East and West) — responsible for collection, conveyance and treatment of wastewater across a large network, operating thousands of km of sewerage infrastructure and treatment centres.

Why Join Us?

This is a fantastic opportunity to work with one of the UK’s most successful capital delivery alliances. You’ll contribute to cutting-edge projects that shape the future of water infrastructure, working with a team of experts across multiple disciplines. We value innovation, continuous learning, and professional growth, with a focus on delivering sustainable solutions and positive environmental impact.

Safety and Wellbeing

Anglian Water’s @one Alliance prioritises safety. Being Safer Every Day means making positive choices to protect ourselves and others, with a culture that places health, safety and wellbeing first.

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