Associate Electrical Engineer

Our client is one of the worlds most well respected design and engineering consultancies. They are currently looking to appoint a Associate Electrical Engineer seeking to develop their career in a positive environment and join our team where talent is encouraged and growth opportunities unrivalled.  

The opening presents the opportunity to join our clients Building Services team in Surrey who are playing a leading role in some of the world’s most challenging and exciting engineering projects across a plethora of sectors including Mission Critical, Aviation, Energy (eg Fission, Fusion, Large scale PV), Commercial Offices, Residential, Blue Light, Education, Transportation and Defence.  

The opportunity will require candidates to be client-facing as well as being involved in the day-to-day design and management of projects. It is an exciting opportunity for an experienced design engineer to further develop their career within a leading building design consultancy.  

What you will be doing:  

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.  

Generates good working relationships with internal and external clients and develops a client relationship management strategy.  

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 and develop team culture.  

Assumes full technical responsibility and operational accountability for Building Services team output on projects.  

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/ Discipline  

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 and familiar with relevant industry standards and guidelines.  

Produces and/or implements discipline tactical marketing plans and ensure monthly business activities are undertaken regularly.  

Develops marketing material, bid documents etc.

Degree qualified in an Electrical or Mechanical discipline and preferably Chartered with a relevant institution.  

Ability to influence senior management and peers within the industry and positively challenge.  

Experience in either one or more of our sectors would be advantageous.  

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 to run a team.  

Good commercial awareness, project governance, business management skills and results orientation.  

Customer focused with a high level of relationship management skills.