Principal Electrical Design Engineer (Water & Wastewater)

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

As a Principal Engineer, you’ll take a leading role within our multidisciplinary teams, bringing your electrical engineering expertise to a diverse portfolio of clean water and wastewater capital projects. You’ll have the opportunity to lead technical delivery, collaborate with specialists across disciplines and work closely with clients on some of the water sector’s most important investment programmes.

It’s an exciting time to join Arcadis. Following our appointment to a number of long-term design partner agreements, we’re continuing to expand our water engineering capability across the UK. From collaborative delivery partnerships in the north of England to major programmes with design-and-build contractors and water utility clients in the south, you’ll have access to a strong and varied pipeline of work.

With several of these frameworks extending well into AMP9, this is an opportunity to build lasting client relationships, develop your career within a growing team and play a meaningful role in delivering more resilient water infrastructure for the future.

Role accountabilities:

• Ability to self-start and work both independently and as a team member carrying out production, checking, review or approval of complex electrical detailed designs including calculations, specifications, reports, and drawings.
• Leading design and advisory services relating to new and existing water and wastewater process plants, pumping stations and ancillary assets.
• Ensuring safety of yourself and others through design leadership and actions.
• Technical delivery of multi-disciplinary projects, in a Design Lead capacity where assigned, using latest digital design techniques.
• Identify and develop innovative and optimised technical solutions based on client needs and drivers
• Lead and co-ordinate work with multi-disciplinary teams (e.g., process, civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, and ICA)
• Establish and grow relationships with clients and capital alliance partners on project technical, commercial and progress matters
• Ensuring projects meet required technical, legislative, quality, safety and environmental standards and objectives.
• Mentoring and technical supervising colleagues with their professional development.
• Line management and performance development responsibility for assigned staff
• Capturing key project and technical knowledge, including innovations
• Promote MEICA team capability and achievements both internally and externally

Qualifications & Experience:

• Degree in Electrical Engineering or other directly related degree
• Chartered Engineer status and membership of a professional institution such as IET, InstMC or CIWEM
• Significant experience and track record in technical delivery of process plant systems on complex engineering projects, preferably related to water and wastewater industry.
• Experience of working on design and construct projects using digital design platforms
• Team leader with collaborative behaviours
• Feasibility to detailed design stage delivery experience

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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