Group Electrical Engineering Lead; Energy

Group Electrical Engineering Lead (Energy)

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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.

In this role, you will lead the Energy Transition Electrical team to develop innovative solutions to complex problems, delivering projects at various stages of maturity. Working as part of a multidisciplinary engineering group, you will oversee the development of electrical designs on a wide range of energy projects, including open and combined cycle power plants, small modular reactors, data centres, wind, solar, battery energy storage, carbon capture schemes, hydrogen generation and transportation, gas networks, energy from waste plants, and industrial facilities.

Essentially the entire spectrum of electricity generation within the UK and across the world. This is an ideal role if you have exposure in the delivery of concept, FEED, and detail design work and are familiar with working for an OEM, engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractor, or a similar organisation. Your experience of working in operations and maintenance (O&M) and understanding of asset integrity processes and procedures would be advantageous in helping us support our clients with technical advice on their existing facilities and operational plant.

You will work closely with the Head of Engineering and other group technical leads to achieve the business goals set out in our strategic plan. Location is flexible across our UK office network.

• Leading the Electrical engineering team to deliver technically excellent solutions to our clients across a broad portfolio of projects.
• Work on projects in a variety of stages of maturity, including feasibility studies, concept designs, FEED studies, value engineering and detailed design. There will be opportunities for site work during project development, construction and commissioning.
• Deliver due diligence projects, and work on behalf of clients as owners engineer reviewing work completed by others, and as technical advisors to the government for carbon capture and hydrogen projects.
• Prepared and development of Electrical deliverables such as Single Line Diagrams, cable calculations, block diagrams, plant layouts, cable routing, containment design, switch gear configuration philosophies, and producing bill of materials and quantities for electrical systems.
• Generate and maintain internal tools and calculations.
• Providing visible technical and team leadership and governance.
• Developing designs and approaches that clearly differentiate WSP from our competitors.
• Promote and lead innovation across the team and the application of engineering principles to first of a kind projects.
• Working collaboratively with other groups within WSP and maximising cross‑selling opportunities.
• Support business leadership in the preparation and review of key bids, provide input into pricing strategy.
• Identification of skills gaps and recruitment of technical staff.
• Maintaining and developing processes and procedure to ensure efficient delivery of design.
• Support and ensure the integration of UK wide best practice i.e. BMS, SHEQ.
• Interface with WSP worldwide and promote its effective cross selling.
• Maintain an overview of workload, utilizations and associated resource requirements and work with team leaders as appropriate to ensure resources are fully utilised within technical capability.
• Promote the performance review process and support career development; encourage training and learning in association with the Group Engineering Manager.

Our team’s expertise covers all Energy Transition generation and conversion technologies including novel, first of a kind concepts and other low or zero carbon technology. Working together with private developers, power utilities, government…