Senior Electrical Engineer – Water & AMP8 Impact

Sweco UK Ltd; Ipswich; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; 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

Professional subscriptions paid

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Cycle2Work Scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Sweco benefits and salary sacrifice

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Job summary

Sweco UK is seeking a Principal Electrical Engineer to provide technical direction across electrical design teams on AMP8 projects. You will ensure designs meet current legislation, standards, and safety requirements while coaching junior engineers.

You will collaborate with senior engineers and project teams to drive quality, sustainability and innovative solutions, with hybrid office/site work expectations and a focus on delivering high integrity electrical outputs.

Qualifications

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Electrical engineering

Leadership

Mentoring

Regulations & codes

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Engineering degree

Chartered Engineer (CEng)

Tools

CAD tools

3D modelling

Job description

Sweco UK is seeking a Principal Electrical Engineer to provide technical direction across electrical design teams on AMP8 projects. You will ensure designs meet current legislation, standards, and safety requirements while coaching junior engineers.

You will collaborate with senior engineers and project teams to drive quality, sustainability and innovative solutions, with hybrid office/site work expectations and a focus on delivering high integrity electrical outputs.