Job Description:

Senior Electrical Design Engineer - Building Services / MEP

Crawley, West Sussex, Hybrid

Circa £60k

Benefits - Pension, 25 days, Discretionary Annual Bonus, Phone, Free Parking, Professional Memberships

Principal Electrical Design Engineer / MEP / Building Services Design / Electrical Design

This Senior Electrical Design Engineer role will give you scope to develop your career and see the bigger picture in this well-established consultancy.

This role will suit someone who wants to work as a valued member of a close knit supportive team. The relationships between team members are relaxed and friendly as the team are all conscientious and take responsibility for their own work. It’s a social team who would pop out for a beer together, it’s a genuine unforced organic friendly culture.

You will join a small management team and be instrumental in shaping the future of the practice and will contribute to business planning and overseeing a team of technicians. Projects are across a wide range of sectors including heritage, healthcare, education and bespoke residential developments.

Responsibilities

• Assisting clients with the development of a brief defining design requirements and following up with managing client expectations from inception to completion of each project.
• Developing realistic conceptual designs, schematics and detailed designs in order to assist fellow professionals with shaping the building design at an early stage.
• Produce substantiation calculations to demonstrate that designs will perform as required.
• An awareness and understanding of the purpose and principals of a range of mechanical building services systems.
• Proactive approach to communicating with other technicians and engineers within the practice to produce carefully considered and well-coordinated engineering design drawings and written specifications.
• Manage projects against time, cost and quality requirements.
• Mentoring some more junior, but capable design engineers as they progress into more senior roles.

Experience and Qualifications

• A minimum of HNC/HND in Building Services Engineering or Electrical Engineering.
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience of electrical design in building services
• Current membership of at least one relevant professional institution.
• Current full UK driving license.
• An interest in sustainable design and energy
• Thorough understanding of current legislative requirements and design standards.