Overview

Position: Senior or Principal Electrical Engineer

Location: Exeter or Bristol with hybrid working available

Rate Guide: 60–80k (Neg DOE) plus car allowance, bonus and excellent benefits package

Our Client: Is an integrated design and build provider working in the water sector. With over 1,000 staff working across eight regional centres, supporting six long–term water sector frameworks and two recently won frameworks, operating both as a sole contractor but also in joint ventures and alliances.

The Role: Our client is looking to strengthen their Engineering team with a Senior or Principal EICA Engineer. You will report directly to the Regional Discipline Lead or Regional Engineering Lead. Your role will be to provide superior quality Engineering Design services to allow the company to minimise risks and maximise profits on turnkey and engineering services contracts. To ensure the above the individual must co–ordinate the design and produce design documents and drawings taking due account of health and safety requirements, specifications and standards pertaining to the contract.

Key responsibilities

• Produce design layouts which are cost effective, meet the requirements of the specification and which can be constructed and commissioned effectively. The term cost is to embrace all costs associated with the design and the subsequent construction of the design. To be cost effective the whole out turn cost of the design solution must be considered including design time costs, material costs, erection costs and any impact that the design solution might have on other disciplines.
• Ensure that standard practices are utilised where–ever possible.
• Maintain competitiveness.
• Provide estimates and feedback for Proposals department.
• Work to procedures and processes to ensure the continuing development of the department.
• Assist in developing procedures and processes.
• Monitor and review the procedures and processes.
• Write, update and monitor efficient procedures to aid the smooth running of the department.
• Ensure co–ordination of designs with all other disciplines internal and external to ensure that the design processes carried out on the contract are co–ordinated for the benefit of the contract as a whole.
• Maintain files and records throughout the duration of contracts.
• Assure customer satisfaction.
• Assist in supervising and developing staff.
• Assist in ensuring a safe working environment for all staff.
• Ensure designs take account of environmental issues.
• Ensure that design takes full regard of all health and safety requirements.

Qualifications and experience

• Experience: Significant experience in technical delivery of process plant systems on complex water industry engineering projects
• Experience of motor control centres including protection, motor starters including VSDs and harmonic mitigation methods.
• Experience of selection and specification of Instrumentation, Industrial Communications, PLCs and SCADA systems.
• Strong understanding of the principles of water and sewage treatment.
• Have experience of managing members of staff in designing relevant discipline aspects of water and sewage treatment plants
• Membership of a professional institution / chartered
• Relevant discipline engineering degree
• Ability to rationalise designs and produce economic plant layouts
• Good general knowledge of all aspects of water treatment, e.g. mechanical engineering, process engineering, electrical engineering and project management
• A flexible mind, with the ability to assimilate large amounts of different data at one time
• Ability to present technical proposals clearly, confidently and convincingly
• Computer literacy
• Driving license

Benefits and additional information

• Package includes: A competitive salary
• Car/car allowance (subject to role and level of position)
• Bonus (subject to role and level of position)
• 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays (with an additional 5 days available to buy)
• Contribution Pension scheme
• Life Assurance, Health Insurance, Private medical Insurance
• And many more benefits including – cycle to work scheme, discounts and savings Hub, kids pass etc

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