Lead Senior Lighting & Electrical Engineer

Title:

Lead Senior Lighting & Electrical Engineer

Requisition

Amey are a leading provider of full life-cycle engineering, operations and decarbonisation solutions, for transport infrastructure and complex facilities.

Working for us, you’ll be delivering sustainable infrastructure solutions that enhance life and protect our shared future.

Our people are driven by a set of strong values, based on safety, insight and collaboration.

We have a fantastic opportunity for a permanent Lead Senior
Lighting/Electrical Engineer to join our Consulting Energy, Lighting & Technology Practice. This is a hybrid opportunity and with office space in several cities like Birmingham, Nottingham, Bristol, Manchester, Cardiff, York and Edinburgh we welcome applications from across these regions.

Amey Consulting are a Design partner to support National Highways in the delivery of the largest and most comprehensive renewals programme they have ever launched. The £3.6bn Scheme Delivery Framework (SDF) enables National Highways to procure Design and Construction services across the Strategic Road Network. We are also providers on National Highways frameworks, including SPaTS2, OTCF and ITCF with growing consulting opportunities in the technology arena.

Our Lead Senior Lighting Engineers play an important part within the Energy, Lighting & Technology Practice and alongside our client, National Highways. As a Lead Senior Lighting Engineer you will provide effective support and assistance to your Discipline Lead/ Principal Lighting Engineer on a variety of National Highways Lighting projects, taking the lead on project delivery and managing and help grow/develop the Lighting design team with engineers at various levels.

Responsibilities include:

• To lead a team to product technically sound engineering solutions, complying with all relevant technical standards and client requirements
• The preparation and checking of designs, calculations, drawings and documentation as part of the production of scheme deliverables that satisfy the overarching criteria of quality, cost and programme.
• Overseeing the actions of more junior members of staff undertaking similar tasks and taking responsibility for their actions
• Responsibility for the commercial success of the projects within their portfolio, controlling budgets and managing the costs associated with the production of deliverables
• Liaising with client and supplier representatives at peer level, attending progress meetings, responding to queries etc.
• Significantly contributing to the preparation of bids and the general work winning function
• Drive effective health and safety practices within the team

• Able to produce technically sound engineering solutions, complying with all relevant technical standards and client requirements, working unsupervised and supervising more junior members of staff undertaking similar tasks
• Ability to identify and apply engineering solutions to existing roadside technology operational challenges requiring logical and maintainable resolutions
• Experienced in undertaking project related tasks associated with the management of health, safety and welfare, e.g. Amey’s Integrated Management System and the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations
• Capable of acting as day-to-day main engineering contact for a project, both with clients and other disciplines
• Knowledge, understanding and experience of design and specification process with ability to advise others (Design Team Leader for appropriate projects). Can check designs to a high standard
• Highly experienced with relevant software and similar analytical tools. Good ability to check work produced by others
• Has a very good understanding of CDM and risk assessment. Substantially experienced in the management and communication of hazards and risks on projects and ensures appropriate risk mitigation and transference has been applied.
• Capable of acting as Principal Designer for appropriate projects
• Supervisory and people manager skills. Capable of managing a medium sized, locally based single discipline technical team, including the people manager role
• Incorporated or Chartered…