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Principal Electrical Engineer

AECOM-1

Peterhead

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USD 50,000 - 90,000

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Job summary

Join a forward-thinking consulting firm dedicated to creating a better world through infrastructure. As part of a global team, you will manage and deliver impactful projects while leading a talented group of engineers. This role offers opportunities for personal and professional growth, with a focus on innovation and collaboration. You'll work in a dynamic environment that values your unique contributions and perspectives, all while making a tangible difference in communities. If you're passionate about engineering and ready to take on exciting challenges, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Flexible work options
Access to industry-leading technology
Diversity and inclusion programs
Professional development opportunities
Well-being programs

Qualifications

  • Successful track record in electrical services design with a focus on healthcare facilities.
  • Experience managing projects and teams, ensuring quality and timely delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Manage and deliver small to medium-sized projects, ensuring financial accountability.
  • Lead a team, provide technical guidance, and engage in interdisciplinary reviews.

Skills

Electrical services design
BIM software
Project management
Communication skills
Negotiation skills

Education

CIBSE/IET/IMechE accredited honours degree
Chartered Engineer (CEng)
Postgraduate experience

Tools

Design software for electrical services

Job description

Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World.

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world's most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it's improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We're one global team - 47,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world. Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.

We have won a number of large projects in the North, particularly in the Healthcare sector and are looking to grow our teams in both Leeds and Manchester.

Job Responsibilities will include:

  1. Reporting to the Associate Director and being responsible for the management and delivery of small and medium sized projects.
  2. Responsible for project finances.
  3. Managing a small team of engineers and providing specialised technical input to studies and design to assist in the development of junior and graduate engineers.
  4. Participate, manage and engage in interdisciplinary review of project deliverables.
  5. Preparation of fee estimates, design programme and liaison with clients to agree project deliverables.
  6. Participating in quality control review of design calculations or drawings.
  7. Preparing technical specification sections.
  8. Providing input to the development of engineering budget and schedule to meet requirements.
  9. Having a good understanding of software packages used for the design of electrical services.
  10. Managing project resources to meet the agreed deliverables on programme and within budget.

Minimum Requirements:

  1. Successful track record of electrical services design.
  2. A highly motivated individual with a passion for succeeding and developing.
  3. Have previous experience working as either a Senior / Principal Engineer.
  4. Excellent communicator (both written and verbal) with strong negotiation skills.
  5. Membership of a relevant professional body, such as IET.
  6. Good understanding of software packages used to design electrical services.
  7. Experience in delivering projects using BIM software packages.
  8. The successful candidate will preferably have had experience in the design and delivery of healthcare facilities.

Qualifications

  1. Have a CIBSE/IET/IMechE Engineering Council accredited honours degree.
  2. Should be a Chartered Engineer (CEng) with a relevant professional body.
  3. Extensive post graduate experience.

Additional Information

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us.

At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives. If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!

About AECOM

AECOM is the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle - from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities.

AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you're working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We're the world's trusted global infrastructure firm, and we're in this together - your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you'll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm - access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

ReqID: J

Business Line: B&P - Buildings & Places

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India

Career Area: Engineering

Work Location Model: Hybrid

Legal Entity: AECOM Limited

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