Senior Electrical Engineer

Description:

Transforming society together, we're planning and designing sustainable communities and cities of the future.

Solving the great societal challenges of our time is more relevant, demanding and inspiring than ever before. At Sweco, we bring together experts with different perspectives and skills to develop solutions that address the challenges of urbanisation, harness the positive power of digitalisation and make societies more sustainable.

We offer our clients a combination of global expertise and local presence, adapted to their business and reality. Our ambition is to be our clients’ most relevant partner, working together to help them solve their challenges, today and into the future.

To ensure we support our objectives of collaboration across the business whilst providing our workforce with the agility to achieve a healthy work/ life balance, we are asking our employees to have office or site presence on an average of three days a week.

As a 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:

• An 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 less experienced engineers
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills