Senior/Principal Engineer – Electrical (Open) in Derby, United Kingdom
Senior/Principal Engineer – Electrical (Open)
Location: Derby
Overview
With offices throughout the UK, SNC-Lavalin has an extensive history of supporting clients in the UK and overseas. With over 50,000 employees globally and a turnover of £5bn, following the acquisition of WS Atkins in July 2017, we are now in the top 3 of largest Engineering firms in the world.
We are looking for an experienced engineer work with an industry respected group of electrical specialists who provide technical support in rail projects at all levels of the industry from heritage fleets to new build rolling stock. This includes design, compliance, incident investigation, vehicle refurbishments and life extension. Our acquisition of Atkins has given us access to larger industry leading projects.
A range of consultancy skills including; expert judgement, hand calculation, computational analysis and development of bespoke analysis routines and processes. The team has a wide client base including train and equipment manufacturers, operators, owners and overhaulers.
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Job Description
In this role you will be responsible for the delivery of electrical engineering projects to clients or internal project teams. A key requirement of the role is to support our electrical team although work on other projects is expected.
Responsibilities:
- Understand client requirements and aspirations to identify and agree scopes of work.
- Develop costed proposals (full scope or specific elements of scope for multi-discipline jobs).
- Deliver high quality work to clients according to agreed timescales and budgets.
- Provide specialist technical expertise to other delivery teams to support delivery of multi-disciplinary projects.
- Maintain a working understanding of relevant standards.
- Support the development of other colleagues through knowledge and experience transfer.
- Authoring, checking and approval of technical reports.
Example work activities:
- Design scrutiny / standards compliance assessment for electrical systems on new-build and modification projects.
- Integration of new technology including decarbonisation and ETCS projects.
- Performance analysis for journey time and energy consumption.
We’d Love to Hear from You If You Have
- Degree qualified, Chartered Engineer or similar status in a relevant engineering discipline.
- Good understanding of the principles of railway vehicle / systems electrical technology.
- Good communication and presentation skills, and the ability to write clear and concise text.
- Undertake Project Manager/Project Director role for projects managed by the electrical engineering team; Identify technical, commercial and safety risks associated with projects and ensure these are managed through each project phase.
- Provide peer checking/approval of technical proposals and project deliverables.
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