Principal / Associate Electrical Engineer

Job Description

R-xxxxxx Principal or Associate Electrical Engineer

Job Description

At AtkinsRéalis our ambition is to be the world’s leading experts in the creation, development, design and delivery of high-performance buildings. We work for clients in the UK and internationally providing multi-disciplinary building design services for new build, retrofit and repurposing projects. Our work has considerable breadth and diversity in both scale and sector expertise including commercial, residential, government, education, healthcare, transportation, defence, nuclear, renewables, logistics, data centres, industrial and manufacturing.  Our reputation is for innovation and our drive to meet today’s most pressing challenges – from construction productivity and predictability to achieving the highest environmental standards and social purpose. At AtkinsRéalis, we offer more than just a job. We offer an opportunity to make a difference and shape the world to benefit future generations and the natural environment.

Part of our mission is to help lead the industry in achieving Net Zero as rapidly as possible. Our global cross-sector experience and broad heritage of engineering excellence puts us in a unique position to address the challenges and identify the opportunities in pursuit of Net Zero.

We are looking to appoint an Principal Engineer / Associate Engineer into our Building Services practice, based in our Epsom office with over 100 engineers in the LSE Region.

You will work closely with bid teams to capture internal and external business opportunities in the above referenced sectors. You’ll have the capability to take a brief, provide a comprehensive Building Services bid response and manage a team to deliver project design services.

Requirements:

Preferred degree qualified in an Electrical discipline and Chartered with a relevant institution and minimum 7 years experience.
Ability to influence senior management and peers within the industry and positively challenge.
Experience in secure projects eg Defence / Nuclear is preferred.
An astute Electrical Building Services Engineer of high technical standing.
Extensive project experience, necessitating high levels of technical competence.
Experience working on a variety of major multi-discipline design projects.
Demonstrable leadership and people management skills with the ability/potential to run a team.
Good commercial awareness, business management skills and results orientation.
Customer focused with a high level of relationship management skills.
Confident ability with good communication skills and a professional approach to clients and other AtkinsRéalis employees.
Ability to collate information and have a clear and structured approach to report writing.

Responsibilities:

Commercial -

Commercially aware and capable of identifying and securing internal and external project opportunities.
Takes commercial responsibility for the delivery of the Building Services team engaged on projects.
Bidding for project opportunities in compliance with business guidelines.
Project Cost Control.

People -

Generates good working relationships with internal and external clients and develops a client relationship management strategy.
Takes responsibility for key client management for specific clients.
Manages others performance to ensure customers receive a good service.
Provides management, motivation, inspiration and leadership for the Building Services team engaged on projects.
Undertakes appraisals and personal development plans for selected team members.
Good team leader skills in order to grow the business.
Recognises and develops talent in others; leads by example.
Can identify and nurture talent in others to build a high performing and technically sound team.

Technical -

Assumes full technical responsibility and operational accountability for Building Services team output on projects.
Familiar with relevant industry standards and guidelines.
Comfortable in communicating and challenging other design team members to arrive at the optimum Building Services design solution.
Has an engineering design background and able to fully demonstrate an ability to design and lead Electrical and Building Services teams.
Extensive Electrical design experience in the construction industry.
Able to demonstrate a full understanding of the key Building Services design considerations when working on projects.

Business Development -

Produces and implements discipline tactical marketing plans and ensure monthly business activities are undertaken regularly.
Develops marketing material, bid documents etc.
Customer focussed and builds, maintains and nurtures a high-profile client base.

The location of this role is in Epsom. You will be expected to attend the office/site/clients office for three (core) days a week, with the remining time being hybrid. There will be a requirement to visit clients and sites as dictated by our projects.

What we offer?

AtkinsRéalis recognise that there are many well qualified people who are looking to further their career, but who cannot commit to full time employment. We support flexible working arrangements and are interested to discuss how we can accommodate individual requirements.  As part of this commitment, we understand the need for a diverse and flexible workforce, where a work-life balance is important. So, by default AtkinsRéalis offers flexible working, where there is no fixed 9 ‘till 5.

Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.