Principal Electrical Engineer

Salary: £72,000 – £78,000 per year

Aylin White has been tasked with recruiting a Principal Electrical Design Engineer by one of the leading multinational award-winning M&E Consultancy. This is to join their Critical Systems team to be based in City of London due to an increase in project wins and in line with a pre-existing growth plan we are looking for a Principal Electrical Design Engineer with a Building Services background to join the growing team.

The Company

* Very well-established, leading multinational award winning Multi-disciplinary M&E Design Consultancy who are renowned for their focus on sustainability and zero net carbon.

* The team works solely in the data centre field, keeping abreast of current best practice while researching breakthrough technologies that shapes future trends.

* Healthy order book in place for the next twelve months with Defence projects commencing soon.

* Amazing Central London office however they are offering flexible working coming out of the pandemic.

* An expanding team of Engineers looking to grow experientially in their London office

* Excellent career progression with the option to move to the other offices

* The work on a wide range of sectors including Healthcare, Residential, Commercial and Data Centre projects

* Progression into leadership role within the business.

THE ROLE

* This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced and client focused electrical engineer to join the critical systems team, and to play a leading role in ensuring the successful delivery of innovative electrical design solutions for some of the most notable and large-scale data centre projects in the world.

* You will collaborate within our critical systems team and work closely with colleagues of various disciplines to help manage the delivery of technically excellent and profitable projects.

* The role will include helping manage engineers to deliver designs, keeping an eye on fee and programme, checking designs and communication with the wider project / client team. You will be expected to be closely involved within the design process and produce design deliverables.

* You will use your expertise and determination to manage, motivate and inspire less experienced engineers.

* You will also support, and be supported by, senior management staff within the team.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

* As Principal Electrical Design Engineer, you will be Liaising with the engineering teams to ensure projects meet expectations within the set deadline

* Providing training and managing younger members of your team

* Running a portfolio of projects

* As Principal Electrical Design Engineer you will be assisting with design development and calculations on high value projects

* You will be accurately creating technical drawings in accordance with client briefs using programmes such as Amtech and Dialux

* Responsibility for undertaking electrical services design including lighting, small power, fire alarms, CCTV and security systems will be a big part of your role

SKILLS AND BACKGROUND

* Working towards, or already be, a Chartered Engineer, educated to degree level in Electrical Engineering or Building Services Engineering (MEng or BEng), you have gained significant experience in an electrical engineering role within the electrical engineering design field, preferably in a data centre/critical systems context.

* Ideally, you will have some experience in the data centre field including an understanding the principals of data centre design and delivery. However, we are willing to work with the right driven and technically strong individual to develop these skills. In your most recent position, you have consistently demonstrated your ability to manage small to medium-scale projects and less senior engineers to deliver to, and exceed, client expectations.

* You have proven ability in producing schematic diagrams, preparing specifications and project reports, carrying out site inspections and surveys, detail design development as well as lead project meetings. Through this experience, you can support your project teams to design and develop detailed and accurate designs.

* The ability to take ownership for tasks, capacity to think around problems and help guide the team towards solutions and be an organised and confident communicator with excellent client facing skills.

If you are an experience Principal Electrical Design Engineer within the Building Services industry and are interested in securing a long-term role with a very well established Multi-Disciplinary Consultancy in Central London, then please contact Alex Cena at Aylin White.