Lead Electrical Engineer

Are you an experienced Electrical Engineer looking to work on some of the UK's most complex infrastructure projects?

We're looking for an Lead Electrical Engineer to join a growing multidisciplinary engineering team, delivering innovative electrical design solutions across major industrial and infrastructure programmes. This is an exciting opportunity to take on a technically challenging role where you'll lead design activities, mentor engineers and collaborate with clients to deliver high-quality engineering solutions from concept through to construction.

If you're passionate about engineering excellence and enjoy solving complex technical challenges within a collaborative environment, we'd love to hear from you.

The Role

As a Lead Electircal Engineer, you'll play a key role in delivering electrical engineering designs across a range of multidisciplinary projects. Working closely with project managers, engineers and clients, you'll provide technical leadership while ensuring projects are delivered safely, efficiently and to the highest quality standards.

You'll be involved throughout the project lifecycle, from feasibility and concept design through to detailed design and construction support, helping to develop practical and innovative engineering solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of electrical engineering design packages on complex engineering projects.
• Produce and review keytechnicaldeliverables, including:
• Single Line Diagrams
• Cable Block Diagrams
• Load Schedules
• MCC Specifications
• Control Philosophies
• Control Network Architecture

Coordinate and support multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Ensure designs comply with relevant standards, regulations and client requirements.

Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers.

Support project planning, programme delivery and budget management.

Participate in design reviews, technical workshops and engineering assurance activities.

Build strong relationships with clients and stakeholders.

Support technical proposals, bids and tender submissions.

Contribute to the continuous improvement of engineering processes and technical standards.

About You

You'll ideally have:

• A degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.
• Chartered Engineer (CEng) or Incorporated Engineer (IEng) status, or be working towards professional registration.
• Proven experience leading electrical design within industrial, process or infrastructure projects.
• Strong knowledge of electrical distribution systems, control systems and electrical design principles.
• Experience producing detailed electrical design documentation.
• Knowledge of:
• Earthing and bonding
• Lightning protection
• Lighting design
• DSEAR and ATEX installation practices

Experience using electrical design software such as Trimble ProDesign, Amtech or similar.

Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively with multidisciplinary teams.

A proactive approach with strong problem-solving and leadership skills.

Desirable

• Experience within the UK water sector.
• Knowledge of WIMES standards.
• Previous consultancy experience.
• Experience contributing to bids and business development activities.

What's on Offer

• Opportunity to work on nationally significant infrastructure projects.
• Hybrid working with flexibility around office and site attendance.
• Technically challenging and varied project work.
• Collaborative, multidisciplinary engineering environment.
• Opportunity to mentor engineers and influence project delivery.
• Long-term contract opportunity with an exciting pipeline of work.

If you're looking for your next challenge in electrical engineering and want to play a key role in delivering innovative infrastructure solutions, we'd love to hear from you.