Sweco Peterborough, United Kingdom
Overview
Join to apply for the Senior Electrical Engineer role at Sweco. The Anglian Water @one Alliance is a collaborative organisation delivering Anglian Water’s capital investment programme, with a focus on AMP8 and innovative, nature-based solutions.
We are building teams with a clear path for career progression and a challenging portfolio of projects to keep the water flowing across the region.
About Sweco
Transforming society together, we plan and design sustainable communities and cities of the future. We bring together experts to address urbanisation, digitalisation, and sustainability challenges, offering global expertise with local presence. To support collaboration and a healthy work/life balance, employees are expected to have office or site presence on an average of three days per week.
As a Senior Electrical Engineer within one of our four business units, you’ll provide engineering technical direction to the discipline engineers in your area, provide design support for schemes, and ensure designs are fit for purpose and meet current legislation and standards. You’ll check electrical design deliverables produced by others to ensure processes are followed and you’ll coach and mentor junior engineers.
What You’ll Be Doing
* Regularly report to the Principal Engineer.
* Collaborate with Principal Engineer, Portfolio Design Managers and Project Design Managers to capture upcoming project milestones and design review dates.
* Check specifications, schedules, datasheets, drawings, and 3D models to ensure quality, safety, and technical standards are met.
* Coach and mentor junior and less experienced members of the electrical team.
* Review construction site and supply chain design queries and change requests to ensure quick, accurate responses and appropriate design remains suitable.
* Input into Construction Design Management (CDM) and commissioning strategy meetings.
* Update and collaborate with the Principal Engineer and Design Managers on potential improvements.
* Liaise with other departments and project teams regarding design requirements.
* Manage quality through the design workflow in line with the project timeline.
* Support other leads and discipline engineers to deliver outputs to time and quality standards.
* Drive sustainability and low carbon designs.
* Drive offsite build, modular construction, and repeatable solutions.
About You
You will ideally have:
* An engineering or equivalent degree, or demonstrated degree-level knowledge through experience; ideally Chartered or working towards Chartered status
* Experience of water-sector assets and capital projects is essential
* Comfortable with relevant regulations, standards, and codes of practice
* Experience in leadership, mentoring and coaching of less experienced engineers
Depending on your skills, you could be aligned to one of our four business units:
Place Based Thinking
The Place Based Thinking team delivers major projects across the @one Alliance, managing networks from rising and gravity mains to pumping stations and water recycling centres.
Water
The Water Business Unit provides strategic support across the clean water network, assessing hydraulic state, planning infrastructure, and improving network efficiency.
Water Recycling (East and West)
Responsible for collection, conveyance, and treatment of wastewater across a large network, operating thousands of kilometres of sewerage infrastructure and treatment centres.
Why Join Us?
Work with a leading capital delivery alliance, contribute to cutting-edge projects, and develop professionally in a culture that values innovation and sustainable solutions.
If you believe you have the required skill set and are keen to join a company with real career progression, we’d love to hear from you.
Let’s transform society together at Sweco.
@OneAlliance values and commitments
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion: Sweco fosters an inclusive culture and promotes equality for everyone. We encourage applications from suitably qualified candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and are Disability Confident Committed. If you require reasonable adjustments during the application process, contact GB_Function-HR-Resourcing@sweco.co.uk.
If you need assistance, please provide: name, best contact method, position title, and vacancy number. We reserve the right to close vacancies before the advertised closing date. We do not accept speculative CVs; any CVs submitted become the property of Sweco.
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
* Civil Engineering, Architecture and Planning, and Environmental Services
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