Permanent Senior Associate Electrical Engineer
Job Description
A multi-discipline design consultancy has exciting opportunities for an experienced and ambitious Associate or Senior Associate Electrical Engineer to join their firm, based in at their Bristol office.
Working alongside a Team Leader, you will be facing clients, developing your leadership skills, responding to clients’ needs, producing reports, specifications, and guidance, or overseeing testing and commissioning activities. They work closely as a team to ensure they achieve the best results and deliver a consistent high-quality service for their clients.
About Them
They are an award-winning engineering consultancy with a creative team of engineers, designers and technical specialists. They provide innovative solutions to complex engineering and design challenges for buildings.
Irrespective of the scale or complexity of a project, they provide a full range of MEP, environmental and sustainability services, bringing buildings to life and ensuring that they perform in operation as well as they look.
Why Work For Them?
- You’ll collaborate with the industry’s best, working with a wide range of built-environment specialists.
- You’ll be part of progressive and exciting projects, able to experience innovative schemes across all sectors.
- You’ll advance your career, your way, thanks to their structured Career Paths framework.
The Role
- You will be working primarily on a variety of projects with opportunity to also work on a varied portfolio of projects both in the UK and Internationally.
- You will have the opportunity to lead electrical services design on large projects and lead overall MEP on small to medium sized projects within the office.
- You will act as a technical electrical lead.
- Responsible for dealing successfully with Clients and other professionals
- Awareness of consultant appointment conditions
- Define and agree brief with Client
- Competently represents them at project meetings
- Manage and prioritise the workload of a project team including specialist groups.
- Host and chair internal project team meetings
- Contribute to the professional development of individual team members.
- Actively leads self and identifies opportunities and providing support for career development of others
- Monitoring project expenditure and reporting to team leader
- Ensure quality standards and technical accuracy is delivered.
- Reporting cost and resource requirements to the team leader on a regular basis.
What They Are Looking For
- Excellent technical knowledge in Electrical Design Engineering and a thorough understanding of Building Services Engineering and interdisciplinary design through all stages of the design process
- Previous consultancy experience: you will appreciate the importance of complementary specialisms such as sustainability, intelligent buildings, fire engineering and acoustics in the design of buildings
- Autonomous approach: able to lead small to medium sized projects and able to take a brief from the project lead on large projects and deliver & control the tasks required
- Appreciation of client needs, with ability to face clients
- Understand and identify resource needs
- Mentor and supervise junior members of staff
- Chartered engineer or close to depending on grade.
Their benefits
To reward your hard work and commitment they offer both core and flexible benefits, a competitive salary and industry leading training and development to support you throughout your career.
Core benefits
- Private medical scheme
- Life Assurance
- Income protection
- Travel Allowance – electric car scheme
- 25 days annual leave, increasing to 30 with length of service
- Contributory pension scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Enhanced Paternity, Maternity & Shared Parental Leave
- Season Ticket Loans
- Professional membership subscription
- Flexitime
Flexible benefits
- 9-day fortnight – the firm offers all employees the option to work a 9-day fortnight
- Hybrid Working – activity-based approach
- Employee stock purchase plan – a voluntary program which allows eligible employees to purchase common stock at a 15% discount
- Holiday buy & sell up to 5 days
- Study Assistance
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Referral Scheme
- Sabbatical Leave
- Other flexible benefits include gym and retail discounts, travel & dental insurance and GAYE (Give as you Earn)
- Flexible working – We’re happy to discuss flexible working. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage
