Description
WSP is seeking a Technical Director - Electrical Building Services, MEP (Rail) to provide technical leadership and governance across the Rail business in the Electrical Building Services discipline.
The successful candidate will be an influential and respected technical leader with strong engineering judgement, a passion for innovation, and industry-leading knowledge of the discipline in and around the rail sector.
Key responsibilities include:
- Providing technical leadership and governance across the discipline
- Ensuring quality and consistency of technical outputs
- Leading technical input on complex/high-profile projects
- Developing technical talent
- Promoting innovation and best practice
- Delivering safety leadership through Safe by Design, CDM and CSM compliance
- Supporting clients, project teams, and business leadership
- Championing decarbonisation, Net-zero and Whole-Life carbon approaches
- Raising the organisation's profile within the industry
- Ensuring technical quality of services delivered
- Compliance and quality
- Technically robust engineering solutions
- Technical assurance
- Risk management
- Application of best practice
- Developing productivity gains using digital engineering including digital twins
- Developing technical capability aligned with current and future business needs
- Providing strategic technical leadership
- Supporting business growth through knowledge leadership, industry engagement, bid support, and market development
Requirements:
- Degree qualified in Electrical Engineering, Building Services Engineering, or a related discipline
- A Chartered Engineer (CEng) with a recognised professional institution
- A recognised technical leader within the UK rail and electrical building services sector
- Significant experience leading, producing, reviewing, and assuring designs within the discipline
- Extensive experience across the full design process including feasibility, outline, and detailed design stages
- Extensive Rail infrastructure experience including stations, depots, and other operational railway buildings
- Detailed knowledge of Network Rail, Transport for London (TfL), and London Underground (LUL) standards, requirements and processes
- Wide experience of preparing technical reports, specifications, calculations, implementation plans, contract documentation, and resource estimates
- Practical understanding of construction methods and relevant installation practices
- Detailed knowledge of electrical building services engineering and associated railway infrastructure systems
- Deep understanding of multidisciplinary interfaces and railway operational requirements
- Experience coordinating with other rail systems disciplines and stakeholders
- Ability to develop innovative and practical engineering solutions to complex technical challenges
- Up-to-date knowledge of emerging technologies, industry practices, and technical standards