Electrical Engineer

At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

WSP’s Energy business is looking to expand its Electricity Transmission & Distribution service line in Ireland and is excited to appoint an Electrical Engineer to join our team based out of the Dublin, Naas or Belfast office. As an Electrical Engineer working within WSP's Ireland Energy business, you will be responsible for working as part of a multidisciplinary team delivering the power transmission infrastructure that will deliver Net Zero to the Energy System.

WSP has a significant workload that will offer the opportunity to develop yourself and others over the next decade.

• Act as a technical authority, providing guidance across protection and control engineering and supporting multidisciplinary integration with civils, cables and primary teams.
• Delivering projects in a variety of stages of maturity, including Feasibility Studies, Concept Designs, FEED Studies, Value Engineering and Detailed Design.
• Preparation and development of Electrical deliverables such as Single Line Diagrams, cable calculations, cable block diagrams, plant layouts, cable routing, cable containment design, switch gear configurations philosophies and produce bill of materials/quantities for electrical systems.
• Developing proposals and bids for the EC&I discipline and contributing to multi-disciplinary proposals.
• Undertake Owner’s Engineer / Client-side design reviews of developer, supplier, and contractor deliverables, ensuring compliance with technical standards, contractual requirements, and applicable legislation.
• Identify, assess, and communicate health and safety risks within designs, ensuring hazards are eliminated or mitigated in line with the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Construction) Regulations 2013 and good engineering practice.
• Lead and participate in technical meetings, design reviews, and workshops with clients, stakeholders, and supply chain partners to drive alignment and resolve issues.
• Support project delivery through attendance at key stages including design reviews and site inspections, providing technical oversight during construction and commissioning.
• Ensure all drawings, specifications, and design deliverables are accurate, complete, and issued in a timely manner, proactively managing information gaps to avoid programme delays.
• Maintain strong working relationships with clients, designers, and contractors, supporting effective collaboration and successful project outcomes.

• Degree in Electrical Engineering subject supported with significant post graduate experience in electrical design and or operation, maintenance and testing.
• Chartered Engineer or working towards IEng/CEng and a member of relevant Engineering Institute.
• The ability and desire to assume a lead role in the development of Electrical deliverables and or the assessment of assets under…