Senior Electrical Engineer
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE1, England, UK
Listed on 2026-10-04
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Engineering
Environmental Engineer, Electrical Engineering, Engineering Design & Technologists, Systems Engineer
Senior Electrical Engineer - Balfour Beatty (@one Alliance)
Location:
Peterborough/East Anglia
Balfour Beatty play a key role as part of the {(6) Anglian Water's @one Alliance:
Overview | Linked In} @Anglian Water’s one Alliance. The Alliance is a ground-breaking collaboration between Anglian Water and eight industry-leading partners:
Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska and SWECO. And together, we deliver around 40% of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme.
As we enter AMP8, our most ambitious Asset Management Period yet, we're taking on nature-based, sustainable solutions like wetlands and urban drainage schemes. We’re setting global benchmarks in environmental infrastructure and empowering our people with exceptional career growth opportunities.
As Senior Electrical Engineer within one of our four business units, you’ll provide engineering technical direction to the discipline engineers in your area. You’ll provide design support for schemes and ensure all designs are fit for purpose and meet current legislation and standards.
You’ll be responsible for the checking and reviewing of electrical design deliverables produced by other electrical engineers in the @one Alliance and supply chain to ensure the processes and procedures are followed. You’ll be required to coach and mentor junior and less experienced members of the electrical team.
What you'll be doingWhat You’ll Be Doing
- Regularly report to the Principal Engineer.
- Collaborate with Principal Engineer, Portfolio Design Managers and Project Design Managers to acquire upcoming project milestones and design review dates.
- Check specifications, schedules, datasheets, drawings, and 3D models to ensure quality, safety, and technical standards are adhered to.
- Coach and mentor junior and less experienced members of the electrical team.
- Review construction site and supply chain design queries and change requests to ensure quick but accurate responses and/or the design remains suitable.
- Input into Construction Design management (CDM) and commissioning strategy meetings.
- Update and collaborate with the Principal Engineer and Design Managers where potential improvements can be implemented.
- Liaise with other departments and project teams with respect to design requirements.
- Manage quality through the design workflow review in line with the project timeline.
- Support other leads and discipline engineers to deliver their engineering outputs to time and quality standards.
- Drive sustainability and low carbon designs
- Drive offsite build, modular construction, and repeatable solutions.
You will ideally have:
- Engineering, or equivalent, degree or be able to demonstrate a degree level of knowledge through relevant experience and preferably be Chartered, or working towards, Chartered status
- Experience of water-sector assets and capital projects is essential
- Comfortable demonstrating your knowledge of all relevant regulations, standards, and codes of practice
- Experience of leadership, mentoring and coaching of junior engineers
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- - Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- - 25 days…
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