Senior or Principal Electrical Engineer - (1572)

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Senior or Principal Electrical Engineer
Scotland

We have exciting opportunities for a Senior or Principal Electrical Engineer to join our firm.

Working alongside the Project Leader, you will be facing clients, responding to our clients' needs, developing designs and producing reports, specifications and guidance or overseeing testing and commissioning activities. We work closely as a team to ensure we achieve the best results and deliver a consistent high-quality service for our clients.

Hoare Lea has joined Tetra Tech's High Performance Buildings Group, a global alliance of MEP firms, which consists of Cosentini Associates and Glumac in the US, and NDY in Australia, UK, and Asia Pacific. This combined resource of around 2,500 like-minded people is unique, providing leading expertise in almost every building type.

About us

Hoare Lea is an award-winning engineering consultancy with a creative team of engineers, designers, and technical specialists. We provide innovative solutions to complex engineering and design challenges for buildings.

Irrespective of the scale or complexity of a project, we 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.

Hoare Lea has joined Tetra Tech's High Performance Buildings Group, a global alliance of MEP firms.

Why work for us?

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 our structured Career Paths framework.

The role

You will be responsible for supporting and delivering electrical designs across different sectors. You will work within a multidisciplinary team of engineers and support staff delivering a consistent high-quality service for clients, ensuring that repeat and new business opportunities are developed, and profitability is achieved. The role is instrumental in helping to continue to grow and develop a team of technically competent engineers within this high performing sector, as well as seeking new opportunities to develop the business.

What you'll be doing

• You will be working across a range of project sectors such as Commercial, Residential, Healthcare and Education
• 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
• Responsible for dealing successfully with Clients and other professionals
• Awareness of consultant appointment conditions
• Define and agree brief with Client
• Competently represent Hoare Lea 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 lead self and identify opportunities and provide support for career development of others
• Monitor project expenditure and report to Project leader
• Ensure quality standards and technical accuracy is delivered
• Reporting cost and resource requirements to Project leader on a regular basis

What We Are Looking For

• Excellent technical knowledge in Electrical Design Engineering. 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 acoustics, fire engineering and computer modelling 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
• Responsible for the quality of our outputs
• Appreciation of client needs, with ability to face clients
• Ability to identity when outsourcing is required e.g. design & CAD work
• Understand and identify resource needs
• Mentor and supervise junior members of staff
• Ideally Chartered engineer or working towards

Our benefits

To reward your hard work and commitment we 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
• Electric car salary sacrifice scheme (Senior level)
• Travel Allowance (Principal level)
• 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 Tetra Tech 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

How to apply

To apply simply complete a CV profile and submit your application, or for further information please contact louiescottodiperta@hoarelea.com

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Equal opportunities statement

Hoare Lea is committed to ensuring that the most suitably qualified and experienced candidates are appointed to positions within the firm on the basis of job-related criteria.

Reasonable adjustments statement

We're proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunities employer, and we're committed to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the recruitment process. If you have a disability that might affect your performance at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know about any help or reasonable adjustments as soon possible before any interview or assessment. We'll work with you to make sure any appropriate support is in place.