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Senior electrical engineer

Edinburgh
Permanent
Buro Happold
Electrical engineer
Posted: 2 February
Offer description

Buro Happold is recruiting for a Senior Electrical Engineer to join our Building Environments team in our Edinburgh office.

This role is suited to a candidate from a Buildings background looking for an opportunity to pursue industry leading designs within a vibrant multi-disciplinary practice.


What sort of projects could I work on?

The role could see you working as a senior electrical designer in a large project team, or being a project engineer on smaller schemes. You will be working on a range of local, national and international projects which include some of the most technically challenging projects around – recent examples include the New College St. Andrews University, Queensferry Street Hotel Redevelopment, Carlton Arena, Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo.


Be Challenged

With us, your preconceptions will be tested, your resilience built, and your career enriched. The role of a Senior Electrical Engineer can be very varied, duties will include but are not limited to:

* Undertake detailed electrical engineering building services design and calculations, using Revit and Amtech software to support your knowledge of exemplar building design and performance, as well as an appreciation of a designs embodied carbon.
* Embrace technologies to improve performance and sustainability to meet net zero targets by 2030.
* Ensure projects are carried out to an excellent standard, within agreed deadlines and budget.
* Represent Buro Happold at meetings with clients, other professionals, and suppliers.
* Produce and review reports, presentations, models, and drawings to an excellent standard, high level of accuracy and in a timely manner.
* Prepare technical specifications and schedules, design development reports and innovative design solutions.
* Plan and manage input to Revit for production of design work.
* Actively engage with colleagues across disciplines, in group discussions and at events and seminars.
* Mentor more junior team members, potentially leading to an early line management role.
* Autonomously represent Buro Happold to clients, architects and collaborators.


Be Respected

We’ll help you meet your goals, respecting your ideas and fostering your creativity, collaboration and innovation.

As an experienced Senior Electrical Engineer, we would expect that you will be able to demonstrate:

* Relevant building services experience or credentials that will help us meet our goals for delivering highly sustainable buildings.
* Broad design knowledge, from working on a wide range of projects and using British, US and European codes of practice.
* Experience using common analysis software including Revit, Amtech and IES and willing to quickly learn to use new analysis packages as required.
* Digital engineering skills (e.g. coding) would be advantageous.
* Working towards, or a Chartered Member of IET, CIBSE or equivalent body.
* A Bachelor’s degree BEng/BSc or Master’s degree MEng/MSc in a relevant discipline.


Why Buro Happold?

From helping shape entire cities to adapting infrastructure to deal with the climate emergency, a career at Buro Happold presents the chance to make a difference. With a world class reputation, our creativity and our people have delivered positive change to clients, the environment, and communities. If you want to be part of something bigger, this is your chance.


What we offer:

* Generous holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum, exclusive of Bank Holidays.
* Hybrid working arrangements.
* Company Pension Scheme.
* Life Assurance.
* Income Protection.
* Flexible Benefits – including Cycle scheme, Dental insurance, Optical Cover, Travel insurance and Corporate discounts.


A place for everyone

Buro Happold values an individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of how you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds, and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key – we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment. We are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing differences allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.

Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact recruitment@burohappold.com so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.

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