Principal Electrical Design Engineer (Water & Wastewater) - #1675027
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Date: 7 hours ago
City: Birmingham
Contract type: Full time
Work schedule: Full day

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role Description
Our Water Design & Engineering team are looking to recruit a Principal Electrical Design Engineer. As a Principal Electrical Design Engineer, you'll be a key leader within our multidisciplinary delivery teams, working on a variety of water and wastewater capital projects where you will have the opportunity to apply your expertise to clients regionally as well as across the UK.
Our Engineering team creates some of the world's most iconic and ground-breaking structures and spaces that transform the world around us, from making journeys easier to opening up public places that bring people together.
This role sits within our Resilience Global Business Area. We work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we're feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we're seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.
Role Accountabilities
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.
#D&E #AMP8Recruitment
We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role Description
Our Water Design & Engineering team are looking to recruit a Principal Electrical Design Engineer. As a Principal Electrical Design Engineer, you'll be a key leader within our multidisciplinary delivery teams, working on a variety of water and wastewater capital projects where you will have the opportunity to apply your expertise to clients regionally as well as across the UK.
Our Engineering team creates some of the world's most iconic and ground-breaking structures and spaces that transform the world around us, from making journeys easier to opening up public places that bring people together.
This role sits within our Resilience Global Business Area. We work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we're feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we're seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.
Role Accountabilities
- Ability to self-start and work both independently and as a team member carrying out production, checking, review or approval of complex electrical detailed designs including calculations, specifications, reports, and drawings.
- Leading design and advisory services relating to new and existing water and wastewater process plants, pumping stations and ancillary assets.
- Ensuring safety of yourself and others through design leadership and actions.
- Technical delivery of multi-disciplinary projects, in a Design Lead capacity where assigned, using latest digital design techniques.
- Identify and develop innovative and optimised technical solutions based on client needs and drivers
- Lead and co-ordinate work with multi-disciplinary teams (e.g., process, civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, and ICA)
- Establish and grow relationships with clients and capital alliance partners on project technical, commercial and progress matters
- Ensuring projects meet required technical, legislative, quality, safety and environmental standards and objectives.
- Mentoring and technical supervising colleagues with their professional development.
- Line management and performance development responsibility for assigned staff
- Capturing key project and technical knowledge, including innovations
- Promote MEICA team capability and achievements both internally and externally
- Degree in Electrical Engineering or other directly related degree
- Chartered Engineer status and membership of a professional institution such as IET, InstMC or CIWEM
- Significant experience and track record in technical delivery of process plant systems on complex engineering projects, preferably related to water and wastewater industry.
- Experience of working on design and construct projects using digital design platforms
- Team leader with collaborative behaviours
- Feasibility to detailed design stage delivery experience
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.
#D&E #AMP8Recruitment
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