Principal Electrical Engineer

2 months ago


Cardiff, United Kingdom Arup Full time

Role - Principal Electrical Engineer

Location - Cardiff

Joining Arup

Arup’s purpose, shared values and collaborative approach has set us apart for over 75 years, guiding how we shape a better world.

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The Opportunity

We are looking for a passionate and dynamic Principal Electrical Engineer with excellent design, technical, and sustainability skills who enjoys working collaboratively in multi-professional design teams, undertaking a client-facing role and taking responsibility for projects from inception to completion to achieve outstanding results. You will join our creative and friendly Building Engineering team based in Cardiff. A team that seeks to set new standards in the built environment. 

At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective – in which we encourage individuality to thrive. Our strength comes from how we respect, share and connect our diverse experiences, perspectives and ideas.

You will have the opportunity do socially useful work that has meaning – to Arup, to your career, to our members and to the clients and communities we serve. 

Is this role right for you?

In this role you will provide leadership and management to the MEP team on a portfolio of projects locally, nationally and internationally, having the duty of ensuring correct technical approaches are applied to the project and staff are of suitable capabilities to undertake the task at hand. You will be expected to have project management skills and will have responsibility for the financial performance of the projects including liaising directly with clients on fees and commercial matters, effectively overseeing total project delivery by enabling effective team management and delegation to ensure the efficient and satisfactory delivery of multiple and complex projects, reporting to the Project Director.

Challenging orthodoxy will be instinctive to you. You will possess ambition on the Digital front and seek to lead its evolution in the built environment. You will be able to demonstrate solid experience in the field of Electrical Engineering Systems for building services across a range of project scales and building types, and a background of multi-disciplinary design by bringing the best of Arup together. In this role you will also produce engineering designs, calculations and specifications, using appropriate technical software and supervise and coordinate the work of others and coordinating work with engineers of other disciplines including in-house specialists. You will participate in and lead bids for new opportunities including developing fee proposals and attending interviews.

Requirements

We are looking for people who:

Have achieved Chartered Engineer status via an appropriate professional institution such as IET or CIBSE.Have extensive experience in delivering a range of projects within building services environmentProven people management skills and are familiar with managing staff at all levels.Have client facing and project leadership background. 

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What we offer you

At Arup, we care about each member’s success, so we can grow together.

Guided by our values, we provide an attractive total reward package that recognises the contribution of each of our members to our shared success. As well as competitive, fair and equitable pay, we offer a career in which all of our members can belong, grow and thrive – through benefits that support health and wellbeing, a wide range of learning opportunities and many possibilities to have an impact through the work they do.

We are owned in trust on behalf of our members, giving us the freedom, with personal responsibility, to set our own direction and choose work that aligns with our purpose and adds to Arup’s legacy. Our members collaborate on ambitious projects to deliver remarkable outcomes for our clients and communities. Profit Share is a key part of our reward, enabling members to share in the results of our collective efforts.

We also provide Private medical insurance, Life assurance, Accident insurance and Income protection cover. In addition, you’ll have access to flexible benefits to help you look after all aspects of your wellbeing and give you the freedom and flexibility to find the best solutions for you, your family, and your individual needs.



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