Senior Electrical Engineer - HS2

Charlton Recruitment; Camden Town; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 84,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

12% pension

Healthcare

25 days holiday

Job summary

High Speed Two Ltd is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to shape LV electrical engineering for the HS2 programme. You will join the central M&E Engineering team, delivering LV systems across shafts, portals and Head Houses, interfacing with mechanical, civil and controls disciplines.

The role offers hybrid working with site visits, progression to Lead Electrical Engineer, and a long-term opportunity across the M&E Systemwide programme on a UK-wide rail infrastructure project.

Qualifications

• Strong LV electrical engineering experience across complex projects.
• Experience reviewing contractor designs and resolving technical queries.
• Experience providing technical assurance during construction and delivery.
• Good understanding of change control and its impact on cost and programme.
• Strong stakeholder management with contractors, designers and engineers.
• Ability to coordinate electrical interfaces with other disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Provide electrical engineering expertise across HS2 M&E packages and assets.
• Review and assure contractor designs and construction proposals.
• Provide technical input on LV distribution, switchboards, lighting, and cabling.
• Support technical assurance through design, construction, testing and commissioning.
• Respond to technical queries and resolve engineering issues with delivery teams.
• Manage electrical interfaces with mechanical, civil and other disciplines.
• Support change, including Early Warnings and Compensation Events, cost and time impacts.
• Undertake site inspections and provide construction stage assurance.
• Develop and apply electrical requirements, standards and specifications.
• Collaborate with HS2 teams to deliver cost-effective solutions.

Skills

LV electrical engineering

Large multi-disciplinary projects

Electrical distribution knowledge

Lighting and switchboards

Technical assurance

Change control

Stakeholder management

Electrical interfaces

Qualification in electrical eng

Education

HNC or Degree in Electrical Engineering

Job description

Senior Electrical Engineer | High Speed Two

High Speed Two Ltd | M&E Engineering

Salary: £70,000 to £83,672 + 12% pension + healthcare + 25 days holiday

Location: London Euston | Hybrid working, typically 3 days in the office with site visits as required

Progression: Lead Electrical Engineer £90k - £100,000 + package (Also Project Engineering)

Programme: High Speed Two through to 2037 to 2039

Shape the LV Electrical Engineering across the whole of High Speed Two

Are you an Electrical Engineer looking for the opportunity to work on one of Europe's largest infrastructure programmes?

Do you have strong LV electrical experience from building services, infrastructure or another complex engineering environment, and want to use that expertise across a major rail programme?

High Speed Two Ltd is looking for a Senior Electrical Engineer to join its central M&E Engineering team, no rail experience necessaey.

This is a broad technical and delivery focused role, initially working across the M&E fit out of approximately 37 shafts, portals and Head Houses along the HS2 route.

These are highly complex underground and above ground assets, with electrical systems needing to integrate with mechanical services, ventilation, pumping, controls, communications and the wider railway.

You will work closely with the Main Works Civils contractors, providing technical input, assurance and challenge from design through construction and into commissioning.

The Long Term Opportunity

The role will then move onto HS2's M&E Systemwide programme, working across the wider railway route. The Systemwide scope includes the provision of LV electrical systems across the HS2 line of route, including: Electrical distribution, Lighting, Distribution boards, Building Management System controls, Associated LV electrical infrastructure

This gives the role an unusually broad project lifecycle and route wide perspective, with the opportunity to develop from asset based M&E delivery into programme wide electrical engineering.

The Role

You will provide senior electrical engineering support across design and delivery, working as part of a multidisciplinary M&E team.

The role is suitable for either an experienced Electrical Project Engineer or a Senior/Principal Discipline / Design Engineer with strong project delivery experience.

You will review contractor designs and technical submissions, provide technical assurance, resolve engineering issues and ensure electrical systems meet HS2 requirements, standards and operational needs.

A key part of the role is understanding how electrical systems interface with other disciplines and managing technical change throughout delivery.

You will need the technical confidence to challenge proposals where necessary and the practical judgement to develop solutions that can actually be delivered on site.

What You Will Do

• Provide electrical engineering expertise across HS2 M&E packages and assets.
• Review and assure contractor designs, technical submissions and construction proposals.
• Provide technical input on LV distribution, switchboards, lighting, cable management and associated electrical systems.
• Support technical assurance through design, construction, testing and commissioning.
• Respond to technical queries and resolve electrical engineering issues with contractors and delivery teams.
• Manage electrical interfaces with mechanical, civil, control and other engineering disciplines.
• Support technical change, including Early Warnings and Compensation Events, assessing impacts on cost, programme and delivery.
• Undertake site inspections and provide construction stage technical assurance.
• Support the development and consistent application of electrical requirements, standards and specifications.
• Work with wider HS2 engineering teams to develop practical, compliant and cost effective solutions.
• Contribute to the future development of the route wide M&E Systemwide electrical solution.

About You

We are looking for a technically strong electrical engineer who can combine sound electrical knowledge with practical project delivery experience.

Your background could be in building services, infrastructure, rail or another complex engineering environment. Rail experience is not essential.

You may currently be working as an Electrical Project Engineer, Senior Electrical Engineer or Senior Design Engineer, provided you have experience taking electrical systems through design and into delivery.

You will ideally have:

• Strong LV electrical engineering experience.
• Experience working on large, complex multidisciplinary engineering or construction projects.
• Good knowledge of electrical distribution, lighting, switchboards, distribution boards and associated systems.
• Experience reviewing contractor designs and resolving technical queries.
• Experience providing technical assurance during construction and delivery.
• Good understanding of change control and the impact of engineering decisions on programme and cost.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and confidence working with contractors, designers and engineers.
• Ability to understand electrical interfaces with other engineering disciplines.
• Relevant electrical engineering qualification - HNC, Degree etc

Desirable Experience

• Major infrastructure, transport or building services experience.
• Experience on projects or packages valued at tens of millions of pounds or above.
• Client side or major contractor experience.
• Experience within a Design and Build environment.
• Understanding of CDM requirements.
• Rail, HS2, Crossrail or other major transport infrastructure experience.

Why HS2?

This is not a role focused on a single building or isolated electrical package.

You will initially work across a large number of major HS2 assets, gaining exposure to complex M&E delivery and multidisciplinary engineering interfaces.

You will then have the opportunity to broaden that experience into the M&E Systemwide programme, helping deliver LV electrical infrastructure across the wider HS2 route.

You will work directly for High Speed Two Ltd, alongside experienced engineering professionals and major delivery organisations, with the programme continuing through to 2037 to 2039.

There is a clear progression route to Lead Electrical Engineer at £90,000 to £100,000 + package.

For an electrical engineer who wants to develop technically, broaden their infrastructure experience and work on projects that will form part of the UK's future high speed railway, this is a strong long term opportunity