Principal Electrical Engineer

Job Description

At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world. We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team – 47,000 strong – driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world. Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.

We have won a number of large projects in the North, particularly in the Healthcare sector and are looking to grow our teams in both Leeds and Manchester.

Job Responsibilities will include:

Reporting to the Associate Director and being responsible for the management and delivery of small and medium sized projects

Responsible for project finances

Managing a small team of engineers and provides specialised technical input to studies and design to assist in the development of junior and graduate engineers

Participate, manage and engage in interdisciplinary review of project deliverables

Preparation of fee estimates, design programme and liaison with clients to agree project deliverables

Participating in quality control review of design calculations or drawings

Preparing technical specification sections.

Providing input to the development of engineering budget and schedule to meet requirements.

Having a good understanding of software packages used for the design of electrical services

Managing project resources to meet the agreed deliverables on programme and within budget

Minimum Requirements:

Successful track record of electrical services design

A highly motivated individual with a passion for succeeding and developing

Have previous experience working as either a Senior / Principal Engineer

Excellent communicator (both written and verbal) with strong negotiation skills.

Membership of a relevant professional body, such as IET

Good understanding of software packages used to design electrical services

Experience in delivering projects using BIM software packages

The successful candidate will preferably have had experience in the design and delivery of healthcare facilities

Qualifications

Have a CIBSE/IET/IMechE Engineering Council accredited honours degree

Should be a Chartered Engineer (CEng) with a relevant professional body

Extensive post graduate experience