Principal Electrical Engineer (Building Services)

We are seeking a Principal Electrical Engineer (Building Services) to join our Manchester team. As a principal electrical engineer, you will have a lead role with support from your WSP colleagues for a number of our most prestigious projects in our Manchester mechanical, electrical and public health (MEP) team.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Providing technical input and developing design solutions, especially with sustainable design and low carbon solutions within our mechanical discipline teams
• Attending design team and client meetings
• Working in a joint leadership capacity within our MEP discipline team, providing design and technical advice in a WSP project manager capacity on a wide range of projects
• Designing, supervising the completion of detailed designs, and supervising the work of others in this function with regular site visits to inspect completed work and attend site progress meetings
• Considering the feasibility of the project and leading the overall feasibility study
• Taking responsibility for and directing others in the production of detailed/performance specifications
• Working and liaising with our client and design team members for overall project delivery in terms of client deliverables and internal KPI’s with an awareness of the projects commercial performance

In addition to the above, you will also be responsible for:

• Providing client care and identifying opportunities to develop additional business for the team
• Assisting with developing the client relationship to promote new commissions
• Taking responsibility for and directing others in the production of detailed and performance specifications for the discipline subject to review by colleagues prior to issue
• Developing and line managing junior staff
• Regularly briefing the project team, explaining the appointment, and ensuring contracts/letters of intent are in place for all projects before work starts with support from our financial team
• Maintaining project overview and understanding of the team workload and associated resource requirements, and working with our team leaders to ensure resources are fully utilised across your associated projects

We are looking for someone who can:

• Work as part of a team, but also take a leading role in managing engineers towards the delivery of our key projects
• Apply technical judgment and resourcefulness to feasibility studies, concept, scheme and detailed design, as well as construction support phases of projects
• Represent WSP to our clients, whilst also understanding and delivering client needs in engineering solutions
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of UK mechanical building services design, including relevant standards, codes and regulations
• Manage the technical, cost and programme elements of project delivery
• Use Revit MEP or other 3D design software to allow the allocation / direction of work on projects

As part of the wider WSP team, we will be looking to you to incorporate our philosophies of sustainability, net zero carbon, digital design, modern methods of construction and smart systems into your design work.