Principal Electrical Critical Systems Engineer

The Team

We are an award winning global consultancy and have been named Building’s Engineering Consultant of the Year in 2024, 2022 and 2021. We are at the forefront of the industry, priding ourselves on our exemplary track record of designing innovative and sustainable projects.

Sustainability runs through everything we do at Cundall, and our people are empowered to drive change and decarbonise the built environment. By the end of this decade, we have set ourselves an ambitious goal to only work on projects that meet our zero carbon design criteria, a commitment we have called our Zero Carbon Design 2030 goal. We need engineers who share this passion for sustainability and thrive in designing energy efficient buildings and communities.

Our dedicated Critical Systems team play a key role in making mission critical buildings more energy efficient, sustainable and cost effective to operate. The team works almost exclusively in the data centre field, keeping abreast of current best practice while researching breakthrough technologies that shape future trends. 

Our team are a source of world leading expertise and offer a pro-active and collaborative approach to skill development, and professional excellence. 

We work closely with our clients to develop, improve and deploy their standard ‘template’ designs across the world and so have the unique opportunity to influence the future of data centre design. We also work on many bespoke data centre projects. 

The Role

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced and client-focused Principal electrical engineer to join our critical systems team, and to play a leading role in ensuring the successful delivery of innovative electrical design solutions on some of the most notable and large-scale data centre projects in the world. 

You will collaborate within our critical systems team and work closely with colleagues of various disciplines to help drive and manage the delivery of technically excellent and profitable projects. 

The role entails your being very closely involved within the design process and production of design deliverables, managing your immediate team of engineers.  You will monitor budgets and programme, checking designs and communicating with the wider project and client team. 

You will use your existing expertise, enthusiasm and dedication to manage, motivate and inspire your colleagues, including helping to develop less experienced engineers. 

You will support, and be supported by, senior staff within the team.

The Skills

A Chartered Engineer, educated to degree level in Electrical Engineering or Building Services Engineering (MEng or BEng), you have gained significant experience in an electrical engineering role within the critical systems / data centres.  Equivalent electrical engineering design skills gained in other fields may be considered. 

In your most recent position, you have consistently demonstrated your ability to manage small to medium-scale projects and small teams of engineers to deliver to, and exceed, client expectations. 

You have proven ability in producing electrical designs, including schematic diagrams, layouts, calculations, preparing specifications and project reports, carrying out site inspections and surveys, detail design development as well as contributing to project meetings.  Through this experience, you will support your project teams to deliver excellent electrical designs. 

Essential characteristics for the successful candidate include: 

• the ability to take ownership of tasks 

• the capacity to think around problems and help guide the team towards solutions 

• to recognise the importance of collaboration in a multi-disciplinary design environment 

• be an organised and confident communicator with client facing skills. 

Job Description 

Your career at Cundall

We know that to be the best at what we do we need a diverse workforce underpinned by an inclusive culture. Creating environments where everyone can find joy doing their best work is also great for everyone. That’s why we positively welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and identities, and encourage, support, and celebrate the diverse voices of our people.

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