An established multi-disciplinary consultancy has an immediate requirement for a Principal Electrical Engineer to be based in their Leeds office. You will have a minimum of seven years’ industry experience with the ability to run medium sized projects and undertake a client facing role in the development, design and co-ordination of engineering projects.Experience will include the coordination of engineering project services, with a proven track record in project management. Experience in the delivery of European data centre and mission critical projects, along with other sector experience including healthcare labs and clean rooms would be desirable.Your excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both with colleagues and clients, and experience working on innovative projects with leading client organisations, and contractors will equip you to take a future pro-active role in forging client relationships of our sector portfolio.You will possess good commercial awareness, in addition to having robust technical knowledge relevant to building services design, and are capable of incorporating those technologies into the data centre sector.The position will ideally suit someone who is currently working in either consultancy or mission critical systems and is prepared to work ‘hands on’.The ideal candidate will be a Chartered Engineer or working towards, educated to degree level in Building Services Engineering or equivalent and hold membership of relevant institutions.Role ResponsibilitiesResponsible for running of medium size projectsUndertakes a client facing role in the development and design and coordination of engineering project servicesDesigns and specifies Electrical building systems, equipment, facilities, components and productsDevelops Electrical engineering concepts and solutionsReports and reviews on Electrical engineering options and makes final proposalAttend project design team meetings (perhaps overseas visits required) and co-ordinate with Architects, project managers,Obtain from client and provide a clear and accurate brief to design office engineering teamVisit design office with design briefing and partake in conference calls with design office engineers to discuss/review projectTechnical requirements and deliverablesDevelop brief and disseminate to Engineering/CAD resource for each phase of projectProvide expert technical advice and problem resolution to the design officeVisit design office with briefing and mobilise the teamReview deliverables from design office in accordance with briefing requirements sent to themProvide technical audit of deliverables from design officePresent design proposals/solutions to client and design teamPrepare specifications and co-ordinate with all other documentationSign-off engineering documents/schedules/drawings/calculations received from design officeUse computer assisted project software for both project related calculations and proEnsure document control methods are being adhered to and quality control standards are being achievedContribute to development of quality and technical standards within the officeSupervisory ResponsibilitiesResponsible for assigned EngineersWork independently within the QA SystemsDesign reviewsPeople management skillsClear Communication skillsDelegation
