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Senior/Principal Electrical Engineer

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Cambridge
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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.

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