Senior Electrical Design Engineer

Our multi award-winning client is a much celebrated multi-disciplinary consultancy who support their customers transform the quality and sustainability of the built environment.

With over 1400 staff across 16 regional UK based office, they bring a vast range of skills and experience to thousands of projects each year. Their unique approach offers employees unrivalled career pathways and opportunities through a collaborative effort to upskill and develop Engineers, Technicians and Consultants at all levels. This is achieved through:

• A diverse project base to provide the opportunity to evolve engineering skills working across the full spectrum of RIBA deliverable stages for new and refurbished facilities.
• A team structure ensures quality mentoring and coaching, synchronised to develop as skills, experience and confidence grows.
• Live projects cover all sectors of the construction industry creating great insight to cross pollination of ideas and solutions.
• Continuous team success creates opportunities to expand and create new roles.

The Leeds MEP Team operates independently but as part of a wider northern team of Building Services Engineers working across several sectors including Commercial workspace , Education, Healthcare and Leisure. As the team continues to orabnically grow, an exciting opportunity for a Senior Electrical Engineer to join the Engineering Team has become available.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Work as part of a design team delivering reports, specifications, performance and detailed design solutions
• Use specialist computer-aided design (CAD) and BIM (Revit) software and other resources to design the compliant systems solutions
• Undertake design calculations to support and demonstrate compliance with client requirements aligned to the proposed solution
• Undertake site survey and capture data relevant to the appointment i.e. initial survey, on-going site inspections, defect recording and witness
• Reviewing construction design details and making comment
• Liaise closely with other professionals, including structural engineers, architects, surveyors, and contractors of in-house and external project teams
• Attend a range of project group and technical meetings
• Ensure that the design and maintenance of building systems meet legislative and health and safety requirements
• Advise clients and architects on energy use and conservation in a range of buildings and sites, aiming to minimise the environmental impact and reduce the carbon footprint

Experience and Skills Required:

• Experience of design solutions from conception through to completion including calculations, drawings, specifications, etc aligned to RIBA stages and BSRIA BG6
• Qualification with a Building Services degree or higher educational qualification (HNC/HND)
• Revit software experience is advantageous
• Amtech/OEM calculation experience is required
• Good oral and written communication

The company also operates a CIBSE accredited mentor scheme for registration to the Engineer Council to obtain CEng.