Principal Electrical Engineer

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Job Description 

We require an enthusiastic and motivated person to work as a Principal Electrical Engineer on projects within the Tunnel Systems MEP team. 

The Principal Electrical Engineer role spans the entire project lifecycle, from concept design to construction, including specifying and designing electrical services for rail, tunnels, and stations within transport infrastructure. This involves detailed design calculations, selection of appropriate materials and equipment, and ensuring compliance with relevant standards and regulations.  

The successful candidate will join a well-developed team which includes a wide range of experience from principal engineers, senior engineers, graduates, and apprentices. Passing on knowledge and developing younger staff is a fundamental part of our team culture to which this role will contribute. 

Job Location : Noida, India 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Leading design teams on projects. 

• Managing and coordinating multi-disciplinary project teams. 

• Production and delivery of reliable design solutions, reports, specifications, and drawings. 

• Ensuring the quality of technical deliverables, and supervision of activities in technical disciplines/business areas as appropriate. 

• Presenting technical solutions to clients and external stakeholders. 

• Production and delivery of reliable design solutions, reports, specifications and drawings. 

• Ensure that all necessary quality assurance (QA) functions are carried out for the project in accordance with project procedures. 

• Input into bid management and business development. 

• Assist in the mentoring, management and technical development of engineers and apprentices. 

Candidate Specification 

Qualifications: 

• Minimum Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering. 

• Prefer if candidate has Membership of a relevant professional organisation (i.e., IET, CIBSE). 

• Prefer if candidate has Chartered Engineer certification. 

Essential Skills and Experience: 

• Minimum 10–15 years of Experience in working on large engineering and construction projects. 

• Experience of designing electrical systems including all or most of the following;  

• Lighting design 

• LV distribution 

• HV distribution 

• Earthing and bonding 

• Fire alarm systems 

• Lightning protection 

• Multi discipline familiarisation across MEP and telecommunications systems. 

• Knowledge of key standards and legislation relevant to electrical discipline.  

• Experience of working with and applying the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015. 

• Excellent communication skills as required for business development. 

• Proven ability to work within tight deadlines and act on own initiative where appropriate. 

• Proactive attitude, a willingness to engage and adapt, and apply previous skills/experience to new (potentially unfamiliar) challenges. 

• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills. 

• Strong analytical, organisational skills with a good attention to detail. 

• Experience using industry standard software for electrical design such as Trimble, E-TAP, Dialux. 

• A good working knowledge of MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and familiarity with common data environment principles. 

Desirable Competencies / Skills: 

• Experience of leading Transportation buildings design.