Senior or Principal Electrical Engineer

3 weeks ago


Cambridge, United Kingdom Hoare Lea Full time

Senior or Principal Electrical Engineer
Cambridge 

An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Electrical Engineer or Principal Electrical Engineer to join our leading Engineering Consultancy, operating within our OMC cost centre (i.e., Oxford, Milton Keynes, and Cambridge), based in our Cambridge Office. 

Our Cambridge office was established in 1 to provide a local presence on our projects. Now with over engineers and specialists, we have an abundance of expertise and knowledge that is regularly called upon throughout the firm, mainly within complex engineering sectors such as Science and Research and Healthcare.

As a young, vibrant and innovative office, culture is at the heart of everything that we do. We encourage and foster a collaborative working environment, which includes the widespread adoption of hybrid working and the option to work a 9-day fortnight. 

Guided by our vision, we are passionate in our purpose to positively influence the balance between people and planet. We deliver high performing buildings which respond the challenges of climate change whilst creating spaces which meet the needs of modern living. 

This is an exciting time to join Hoare Lea as we are focused on growth, both in the UK and overseas. We are large enough to provide stability and opportunity, and small enough to recognise our people as individuals; this has led to a culture of flexibility, autonomy, individualism, and organic growth. 

About us

Hoare Lea is an award-winning engineering consultancy with a creative team of engineers, designers and technical specialists. We provide innovative solutions to complex engineering and design challenges for buildings. 
Irrespective of the scale or complexity of a project, we provide a full range of MEP, environmental and sustainability services, bringing buildings to life and ensuring that they perform in operation as well as they look. 
Hoare Lea has joined Tetra Tech’s High-Performance Buildings Group, a global alliance of MEP firms.

Why work for us?

You’ll collaborate with the industry’s best, working with a wide range of built-environment specialists.

You’ll be part of progressive and exciting projects, able to experience innovative schemes across all sectors. 

You’ll advance your career, your way, thanks to our structured Career Paths framework.

The role

- You will be working on a varied portfolio of varied portfolio of projects across key sectors.
- You will have the opportunity to lead electrical services design on large projects and lead overall MEP on small to medium-sized projects within the office.
- Responsible for dealing successfully with Clients and other professionals.
- Awareness of consultant appointment conditions. 
- Define and agree brief with the Client.
- Competently represent Hoare Lea at project meetings.
- Manage and prioritise the workload of a project team including specialist groups.
- Host and chair internal project team meetings.
- Contribute to the professional development of individual team members.
- Actively lead self and identify opportunities and provide support for career development of others.
- Monitor project expenditure and report to Project leader.
- Ensure quality standards and technical accuracy is delivered.
- Reporting cost and resource requirements to Project leader on a regular basis. 

What we are looking for

- Excellent technical knowledge in Electrical Design Engineering Thorough understanding of Building Services Engineering and interdisciplinary design through all stages of the design process.
- Previous consultancy experience: you will appreciate the importance of complementary specialisms such as acoustics, fire engineering and computer modelling in the design of buildings.
- Autonomous approach: able to lead small to medium-sized projects and able to take a brief from the project lead on large projects and deliver & control the tasks required.
- Responsible for the quality of our outputs.
- Appreciation of client needs, with ability to face clients.
- Ability to identity when outsourcing is required e.g. design & CAD work.
- Understand and identify resource needs. 
- Mentor and supervise junior members of staff.
- Ideally Chartered engineer or working towards.

Our benefits

To reward your hard work and commitment we offer both core and flexible benefits, a competitive salary and industry-leading training and development to support you throughout your career. 

Core benefits

• Private medical scheme
• Life Assurance
• Income protection
• Travel Allowance – electric car scheme (Principal)
• Electric Car salary sacrifice scheme
• days annual leave, increasing to with length of service
• Contributory pension scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced Paternity, Maternity & Shared Parental Leave
• Season Ticket Loans
• Professional membership subscription
• Flexitime

Flexible benefits

• 9-day fortnight – the firm offers all employees the option to work a 9-day fortnight
• Hybrid Working – activity-based approach
• Employee stock purchase plan – a voluntary program which allows eligible employees to purchase Tetra Tech common stock at a % discount
• Holiday buy & sell up to 5 days
• Study Assistance 
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Referral Scheme
• Sabbatical Leave
• Other flexible benefits include gym and retail discounts, travel & dental insurance and GAYE (Give as you Earn)
• Flexible working - We’re happy to discuss flexible working. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage



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