Senior Electrical Engineer

Anglian Water Group Ltd.; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent water utility company in Peterborough is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to provide technical direction to engineers and ensure compliance with design standards. The ideal candidate will have a degree in engineering and experience in water projects. You will be responsible for mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with project teams. This role offers a commitment to safety and innovation within a supportive and dynamic environment.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Support for disability and long-term conditions

Qualifications

• Experience in water-sector assets and capital projects.
• Ability to coach and mentor junior engineers.
• Comfortable with regulations and safety standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide engineering technical direction to discipline engineers.
• Check and review electrical design deliverables.
• Collaborate with Principal Engineers on design milestones.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Knowledge of regulations

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent

Job description

Senior Electrical Engineer page is loaded## Senior Electrical Engineerlocations: Peterboroughtime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: R32990Join the @one Alliance – a collaborative partnership of eight industry‑leading companies (Anglian Water, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska, and SWECO) delivering over half of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme. As we prepare for the challenges and opportunities of AMP8, we’re looking for talented individuals to help us shape the future of water infrastructure.At Anglian Water, we’re *Always Exploring* – ensuring we remain competitive, attractive, and rewarding for both existing and prospective employees. By *Doing The Right Thing*, we’re committed to recognising and rewarding our people fairly and transparently, while *Building Trust* through a culture that prioritises health, safety, and wellbeing.**Your Purpose**As Senior Electrical Engineer within one of our four business units, you’ll provide engineering technical direction to the discipline engineers in your area. You’ll provide design support for schemes and ensure all designs are fit for purpose and meet current legislation and standards.You’ll be responsible for the checking and reviewing of electrical design deliverables produced by other electrical engineers in the @one Alliance and supply chain to ensure the processes and procedures are followed. You’ll be required to coach and mentor junior and less experienced members of the electrical team.**What You’ll Be Doing*** Regularly report to the Principal Engineer.* Collaborate with Principal Engineer, Portfolio Design Managers and Project Design Managers to acquire upcoming project milestones and design review dates.* Check specifications, schedules, datasheets, drawings, and 3D models to ensure quality, safety, and technical standards are adhered to.* Coach and mentor junior and less experienced members of the electrical team.* Review construction site and supply chain design queries and change requests to ensure quick but accurate responses and/or the design remains suitable.* Input into Construction Design management (CDM) and commissioning strategy meetings.* Update and collaborate with the Principal Engineer and Design Managers where potential improvements can be implemented.* Liaise with other departments and project teams with respect to design requirements.* Manage quality through the design workflow review in line with the project timeline.* Support other leads and discipline engineers to deliver their engineering outputs to time and quality standards.* Drive sustainability and low carbon designs* Drive offsite build, modular construction, and repeatable solutions.**About You**You will ideally have:* Engineering, or equivalent, degree or be able to demonstrate a degree level of knowledge through relevant experience and preferably be Chartered, or working towards, Chartered status* Experience of water-sector assets and capital projects is essential* Comfortable demonstrating your knowledge of all relevant regulations, standards, and codes of practice* Experience of leadership, mentoring and coaching of junior engineers* Strong stakeholder engagement skills**Depending on your skills, experience, and interests, you could be aligned to one of our four business units:****Place Based Thinking**The Place Based Thinking team delivers some of the largest and most complex projects across the @one Alliance. Made up of six Senior Project Manager teams, we oversee 19 catchments, covering key sites such as Whitlingham, Flag Fen, Great Billing, Cotton Valley, Bedford, Colchester, and Ipswich Cliff Quays. These projects involve managing all parts of the network from rising and gravity mains, pumping stations, high spilling overflows, and water recycling centres.**Water**The Water Business Unit provides strategic support across the clean water network, covering both system performance and infrastructure planning. We assess the future hydraulic state of the network in response to population growth and increased demand, support the design and delivery of capital and infrastructure schemes to ensure hydraulic resilience, and work with optimisation teams to enhance overall network efficiency.**Water Recycling (East and West)**Our Water Recycling Business Unit, split into East and West regions, is responsible for the collection, conveyance, and treatment of wastewater across an extensive network. We operate over 76,000km of sewerage infrastructure and 1,163 treatment centres, ensuring safe and sustainable discharge to the environment while driving innovation and environmental performance.This is a fantastic opportunity to work with one of the UK’s most successful capital delivery alliances. You’ll have the chance to contribute to cutting‑edge projects that shape the future of water infrastructure, working alongside a team of experts across various disciplines. We offer a culture that values innovation, continuous learning, and professional growth, with a focus on delivering sustainable solutions that make a positive environmental impact.**At Anglian Water's @one Alliance, we believe in being Safer Every Day**Safety is at the heart of everything we do. Being *Safer Every Day* means making positive choices, moment by moment, to protect ourselves and those around us. We create a culture where health, safety and wellbeing come first.Together, we will be the changeWe are committed to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve in both our workforce and our supply chain partners to help us to understand and meet the needs of our customers. We are passionate and dedicated to the learning and development of our people, making sure they have the right skills and knowledge to be successful and to help achieve their potential.We want to give everyone equal access to our recruitment process. If you have a disability or long-term condition, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, we’ll support you throughout your application, and make any adjustments to make sure your disability or long-term condition is not a barrier to recruitment. If you need any support, please get reach out to our team [e-mail]’To apply, you’ll need your up-to-date CV, we also recommend uploading a cover letter – tell us what has made you apply and what skills you can bring to the position. We will be in touch after your application has been reviewed, following the closing date.If you are offered a job with us, you’ll be subject to the relevant employment checks for your role, which could include references, driving licence check, DBS Check as well as your right to work in the UK. More information about how we look after and use your information can be found in our .Become a part of Anglian Water’s future and join us on our journey as we live through our values to build trust, do the right thing, and are always exploring, to bring environmental and social prosperity to the region.