Job Description
Role:
This is an exciting opportunity for a Building Services Senior Electrical Engineer with a leading International multi-disciplinary design consultancy in Central London. They are one of the UKs Top Employers for 5 years in a row according to Top Employer Institute. Their multi-disciplined team includes MEP (30 strong), Environmental Design & Sustainability, VT, and Architectural Design Lighting. They are involved in high profile and prestigious projects all over the world across a variety of sectors so the role may involve some travel.
Responsibilities:
- Represent the company in professional and diligent manner always.
- To provide discipline leadership.
- Establish and maintain strong working relationship with internal and external stakeholders, design team, authorities, utilities and associated organisations.
- Attend all meetings with client, project team, contractors etc.
- Undertake and deliver high quality detailed engineering design for electrical building services and power distribution systems, including calculations, analysis, schematics, drawings, diagrams, models, specifications and other documents required.
- Review and management of project from inception to post construction duties.
- Good Knowledge of relevant legislations, standards, regulations, guides and good practise.
- To have thorough knowledge of and compliance procedures and standards.
- To contribute and assist, as required by the Project Leader or Senior Partner, or nominated Engineer.
- Contribute, or otherwise assist, as required.
- Equity, diversity & inclusion (EDI) is a core priority. To support and champion the embedding of this focus as a collective workforce responsibility, EDI should be integrated, where relevant, into all workstreams.
Skills:
Required:
- Able to demonstrate ability to undertake the above responsibilities.
- Legally able to work in the country in which the position is based.
- Qualified as a Chartered Engineer or working towards Chartered status.
- Solid technical understanding of own core engineering discipline and the role of the electrical engineer within the design team.
- Broad understanding of other engineering disciplines engaged in the design of the built environment.
- Good understanding of UK Building Regulations and industry standard design reference material.
- Ability to use Autodesk Revit, Amtech/Trimble, Dialux and Microsoft ‘Office’ suite
- Ability to use initiative in response to demands of project.
- Able to negotiate and communicate well in graphical, written or verbal forms including ability to listen and to understand others.
- Ability to understand and formulate design decisions.
- Excellent organisational skills.
- Developed problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Able to manage sensitive and sometimes confidential information.
- Self motivated and able to take responsibility.
- Able to demonstrate initiative and a proactive approach to daily tasks.
- Good interpersonal skills and able to work independently and as part of an effective team.
- Flexible attitude.
- Able to build good relationships at all levels, internally and externally.
- Resilient to cope with conflicting demands, able to prioritise duties and work effectively under pressure.
- Able to work as part of an effective team assisting and supporting team members.
Desirable:
- International project experience.
- LEED qualified or having working familiarity with environmental assessment methods.
- Familiarity with CIBSE design standards.
- Ability to use some of the following software applications: IES, Elevate, AGI, Relux, Hevacomp, Adobe Creative Suite.
- Mandarin, Cantonese or mainland European language skills.
