Senior Engineer

Kier Group plc; Northfleet; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering consultancy in the UK is seeking a Major Projects Senior Electrical Engineer to join their Design team in Gerrards Cross/Speke. In this role, you will lead the electrical design for complex construction projects, ensuring sustainable and compliant solutions. This position offers a variety of benefits including competitive holiday entitlement, a matched pension scheme, and opportunities for professional growth. Ideal candidates will have a degree in electrical engineering and experience in leading technical projects.

Benefits

Competitive annual holiday entitlement

Matched pension scheme

Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans

Qualifications

• Degree in Electrical Building Services Engineering or Electrical Engineering and member of CIBSE or IET.
• High level of knowledge and experience in electrical engineering.
• Ability to comply with BPSS requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead electrical design for large projects ensuring sustainable design delivery.
• Provide high-quality electrical designs and specifications to meet client needs.
• Identify and resolve technical challenges during design and construction phases.

Skills

Electrical Building Services Engineering

Communication of technical concepts

Technical problem-solving

Education

Degree in Electrical Building Services Engineering or Electrical Engineering

Tools

BIM

Job description

We're looking for a Major Projects Senior Electrical Engineerto join our Design team based in Gerrards Cross / Speke.Kier Design are a top-25engineering consultancy, delivering a wide range of services across all sectors of the built environment, providing construction-focused, innovative and sustainable solutions. We have preferential access to Kier's £11bn+ project pipeline, including mega projects like High Speed 2 and Hinkley Point C, frameworks with national and local government and other public bodies, and a range of other interesting projects in every sector of the built environment.

We believe in building teams around our people, rather than squeezing people into our teams, we want to help you carve out a role in which you'll grow and thrive for many years to come. Offering market-leading development opportunities, supporting our graduates through the early stages of their careers, enabling our people to become professionally qualified, providing management training and qualifications, and supporting ongoing technical development throughout our people's careers. Actively promoting, so you can keep pushing and stretching yourself. Withinthis role, you can enjoy competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy leave, a fantastic, matched pension scheme, a share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans and even more

Location

Gerrards Cross / Speke

Hours

40 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us

What will you be responsible for?

As Major Projects Senior Electrical Engineer, you'll be working within the Mechanical Electrical and Technology team, responsible for the electrical design for large, complex construction projects, ensuring sustainable, compliant, and cost-effective design delivery from concept through to construction, bridging client needs with engineering reality. Leadingthe electrical design team, integrate different disciplines, ensure quality control, and drive innovation for high-value projects.

Your day to day will include:

• Providing high quality electrical designs and specifications meeting client requirements and brief, undertaking and leading on all professional services in connection with mechanical design for all allocated projects and clients
• Giving high level technical advice in electrical building services engineering, representing electrical engineering in project design meetings, establishing solutions, agreeing concepts and working closely with colleagues and other design team members
• Complying with relevant building codes, regulations, industry standards and Kier Design standards and procedures
• Promoting and implementing sustainable design solutions
• Identifying and resolving technical and logistical challenges during the design and construction phases, making proposals and developing innovative solutions and proposals to enhance the M&E service, and implement agreed initiatives such as BIM

What are we looking for?

This role of Major Projects Senior Electrical Engineeris great for you if:

• Degree in Electrical Building Services Engineering or Electrical Engineering and member of CIBSE or IET, Chartered Engineer or working towards becoming chartered
• Experience demonstrating the capability to fulfil the accountabilities of the role, high level of knowledge and experience in your discipline
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts into more readily understood information suitable for a wider business audience, experience in the application of quality procedures and document control in engineering design
• Ability to pass the BPSS (Baseline Personnel Security Standard) requirements

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier

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