Senior/Principal Electrical Engineer

An established building services consultancy consultancy has an immediate requirement for a Principal Electrical Engineer to be based in their Cambridge 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 projects
Undertakes a client facing role in the development and design and coordination of engineering project services
Designs and specifies Electrical building systems, equipment, facilities, components and products
Develops Electrical engineering concepts and solutions
Reports and reviews on Electrical engineering options and makes final proposal
Attend 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 team
Visit design office with design briefing and partake in conference calls with design office engineers to discuss/review project
Technical requirements and deliverables
Develop brief and disseminate to Engineering/CAD resource for each phase of project
Provide expert technical advice and problem resolution to the design office
Visit design office with briefing and mobilise the team
Review deliverables from design office in accordance with briefing requirements sent to them
Provide technical audit of deliverables from design office
Present design proposals/solutions to client and design team
Prepare specifications and co-ordinate with all other documentation
Sign-off engineering documents/schedules/drawings/calculations received from design office
Use computer assisted project software for both project related calculations and pro
Ensure document control methods are being adhered to and quality control standards are being achieved
Contribute to development of quality and technical standards within the office
Supervisory ResponsibilitiesResponsible for assigned Engineers
Work independently within the QA Systems
Design reviews
People management skills
Clear Communication skills
Delegation
In return they offer a very attractive salary/benefits package.