Senior Electrical Engineer

Mott Mac Donald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.

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About thebusinessunit
The Energy unit delivers services to clients globally across several sectors including hydropower, nuclear, waste, renewable generation and transmission & distribution networks. Together we provide integrated engineering and project management services across the project lifecycle – from concept and design to construction and operations, to decommissioning or repowering and life extension. Together with our clients, we’re helping to deliver the energy transition globally.

Overview of the role
The Energy Transition team within our Energy unit is looking for Senior Electrical Engineers to strengthen the existing EC&I team; providing advisory and design capabilities across a variety of power and energy projects types and technologies in a growing portfolio, supporting our clients in the UK and across Europe as part of the energy transition.

Key responsibilities and duties include:

Lead and work with the wider project team to develop cost‑effective, efficient and innovative solutions to complex problems to create practical designs based on these solutions

Working on projects in a variety of stages of maturity, including Design Review, Feasibility Studies, FEED Studies and Detailed Design;
Coordinate Electrical delivery on multi‑disciplinary project, interfacing with other disciplines , project engineer, project manager and client

Preparation and development of Electrical deliverables such as specifications, Single Line Diagrams (SLD), 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

Working with equipment vendors on developing designs of equipment packages and participating in technical evaluations of vendor designs

Participation in safety reviews (HAZID, HAZOP, LOPA)

Support in developing proposals and bids for the Electrical discipline and contributing to multi‑disciplinary proposals

Understand CDM and other relevant HSE legislation

Provide technical leadership and governance

A commitment to promoting health, safety, and wellbeing in the workplace

A Degree in a relevant Engineering subject

Chartered Engineer (or in the process of obtaining) and Member of relevant Engineering Institute

Significant post graduate experience in electrical technical delivery

The ability and desire to assume a lead role in the development of electrical deliverables

Ability to adapt and work on multiple projects simultaneously in a dynamic and fast‑paced environment

Knowledge of design and construction of power and energy projects

Proven understanding of the design process and ability to demonstrate working knowledge of brief/scope documents, design concepts as well as experienced in producing calculations

Detailed working knowledge of national and international codes and standards used within the power and energy sector

Experience of working with design software packages such as Trimble, ETAP etc

Experience of working with clients and contractors with a diverse range of objectives in achieving a technical solution.

Experience with in Owner’s Engineer or technical advisory…