Senior Electrical Design Engineer - Water Industry

RPS; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering consultancy in the UK is seeking a Senior Electrical Design Engineer for its Water Consultancy team. The ideal candidate will have a degree in electrical engineering, significant water industry experience, and strong technical skills in electrical and ICA principles. You'll work on impactful projects and have opportunities for career progression within a supportive environment emphasizing well-being and flexibility.

Benefits

Personal development plan

Transparent career pathway

Hybrid working options

Qualifications

• Good technical understanding of electrical engineering and ICA principles.
• Significant water industry experience required.
• Ability to manage work to time, cost, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Liaise with clients to understand their needs and develop project plans.
• Produce technical outputs including specifications and reports.
• Mentor junior staff and manage project delivery.

Skills

Electrical engineering principles

Water industry experience

Load assessment

LV/MV distribution design

P&IDs creation

Proficient in AutoCAD

Education

Degree in electrical engineering or allied subject

Chartered engineer or working towards chartership

Tools

AutoCAD

Inventor

Job description

Senior Electrical Design Engineer - Water Industry

Join to apply for the Senior Electrical Design Engineer - Water Industry role at RPS. We are recruiting a Senior Electrical and ICA Design Engineer to join our Water Consultancy team operating across the UK. You’ll work on AMP8 and AMP9 projects, ensuring exceptional water services in a collaborative environment.

About The Team

As part of Tetra Tech, RPS Water Consulting is a team of engineers, designers, modellers, and data analysts providing asset management and operational strategy development to our water industry clients to support business planning and delivery. This is an evolving industry, providing challenges and opportunities that require innovation, dedication and teamwork to meet our clients’ needs.

About You

• You will liaise with the client to understand their needs, interpret data, and develop a project plan. You will coordinate multidisciplinary teams to ensure the project meets its goals.
• You will produce technical outputs such as technical specifications, schedules, reports, load and instrument lists, cable sizing calculations, single line diagrams and system architecture layouts, and you will be familiar with collaborative planning reviews and designs of solutions.
• You will provide engineering inputs and design outputs in collaboration with other disciplines, producing general arrangement drawings, 3D models, 2D plans and sections, and piping & instrumentation diagrams.
• You will deliver technical presentations to clients and other design engineers, contribute to collaborative design discussions including technical workshops and safety reviews (HAZOPs/ALMs).
• You will understand water and wastewater treatment processes and assess existing site infrastructure to develop and deliver electrical and ICA design.

Your Responsibilities

• Balance workload across a wide variety of projects from major long-term frameworks with water companies and contractors across the UK.
• Seek positive outcomes for projects and the community.
• Work closely with other senior and principal engineers and stakeholders to support project delivery.
• Mentor less experienced team members, provide technical governance and oversight.
• Interpret and supervise production of technical drawings, ideally using AutoCAD and/or Inventor.
• Undertake asset condition surveys and prepare reports and recommendations.
• Contribute to the production of P&IDs and electrical and ICA design deliverables including calculations, reports, specifications, datasheets, drawings, schedules, and procurement documentation.
• Support the project team to comply with CDM duties, including design risk assessments.
• Ensure quality assurance systems and procedures are followed and high standards maintained.
• Act as a project manager, package manager or design team leader as required.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• A good technical understanding of electrical engineering and ICA principles.
• Significant water industry experience.
• Proficient in load assessment and LV/MV distribution design, P&IDs for equipment schedules, ICA and SCADA architecture, URSs/FDSs and control philosophies, and production of specifications and technical documentation.
• Experience complying with CDM Regulations and safety-focused design.
• Knowledge of contract procurement methods (ideally NEC) and ability to manage work to time, cost, and quality.
• Support for junior staff development and the ability to travel to sites as required.
• Design tools such as AutoCAD or similar are advantageous but not essential.

Qualifications

• A degree-level qualification in electrical engineering or a closely allied subject, ideally IET-accredited. Postgraduate qualifications are an advantage.
• Chartered engineer or working towards chartership.

What’s in it for you?

Personal development plan and a transparent career pathway, supported to progress as far as you want. We value diverse ideas and perspectives and prioritise wellbeing. You’ll join a diverse community and a company that places people first.

Why RPS?

We understand the need for flexible working and collaboration. We offer agile offices and hybrid working to meet client needs. We’re part of a global network and offer development and project opportunities within the team.

RPS, A Tetra Tech Company

Representing an exciting new chapter in our business, RPS became a Tetra Tech company. We employ thousands of people worldwide and solve complex problems for our clients.

Mutual Dignity And Respect

We are committed to mutual dignity and respect in all people processes. Compliance questions are requested to monitor performance; responses will be treated in strict confidence and will not form part of the selection process.

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