Our client is an expanding international M&E consultancy, with a proven track record in low energy design, focused on providing excellent design solutions to clients.

They are seeking a fully experienced Principal Electrical Engineer to be based in their southern regional office.

The Position

• Designs and specifies Electrical building systems, equipment, facilities, components and products
• Develops Electrical engineering concepts and solutions
• Reports and reviews on Electrical engineering options and makes final proposal
• Attend project design team meetings (perhaps overseas visits required) and co-ordinate with Architects, project managers, Structural Engineers etc
• Obtain from client and provide a clear and accurate brief to design office engineering team
• Visit design office with design briefing and partake in conference calls with design office engineers to discuss/review project
• Technical requirements and deliverables
• Develop brief and disseminate to Engineering/CAD resource for each phase of project
• Provide expert technical advice and problem resolution to the design office
• Visit design office with briefing and mobilise the team
• Review deliverables from design office in accordance with briefing requirements sent to them
• Provide technical audit of deliverables from design office
• Present design proposals/solutions to client and design team
• Prepare specifications and co-ordinate with all other documentation
• Sign-off engineering documents/schedules/drawings/calculations received from design office
• Use computer assisted project software for both project related calculations and pro
• Ensure document control methods are being adhered to and quality control standards are being achieved
• Contribute to development of quality and technical standards within the office

The Person

You should possess several years’ industry experience with the ability to run medium sized projects and undertake a client facing role in the development, design and co-ordination of engineering projects.

• Experience will include the coordination of engineering project services, with a proven track record in project management.
• Experience in the delivery of European data centre and mission critical projects, along with other sector experience including healthcare labs and clean rooms would be desirable.
• Possess good commercial awareness, in addition to having robust technical knowledge relevant to building services design, and are capable of incorporating those technologies into the data centre sector.
• The position will ideally suit someone who is currently working in either consultancy or mission critical systems and is prepared to work ‘hands on’.
• The ideal candidate will be a Chartered Engineer or working towards, educated to degree level in Building Services Engineering or equivalent and hold membership of relevant institutions.