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Senior Electrical Design Engineer

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Bristol, England, GBR
Senior level
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Bristol, England, GBR
Senior level
Design electrical systems for buildings across industrial manufacturing, defense, education, and other sectors. Prepare drawings, specifications, reports, and project documentation while meeting budget, quality, and schedule objectives. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to integrate designs, resolve technical issues, and meet client expectations. The role requires applying analytical, technical writing, and electrical design skills while working toward Chartered Engineer status.
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Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:
 
We are looking for a Senior Electrical Engineer with previous experience designing electrical systems within buildings to join our Places Design Practice. In this role, you’ll be delivering elegant and efficient electrical design solutions on exciting and challenging projects for key clients across sectors including Industrial Manufacturing, Defence and Education. 

We work with our clients around the world to create, support, and enhance smart, safe and sustainable places where people live, work, learn and thrive. Places impact on the quality of people’s lives. Whether new homes, shops, workplaces, schools and hospitals, manufacturing, research and development facilities, or data and distribution centres. People and communities thrive when the spaces in which they live, work, move and play are designed and managed in a way that best meets their needs.

Role accountabilities:

In this role, you’ll be responsible for working on technical aspects of small projects or components of larger projects, meeting financial, quality and timeframe objectives and meeting or exceeding client expectations.

Working collaboratively with a multi-discipline team of Arcadians, you will ensure the integration of the overall design or solution. Day-to-day, you will prepare accurate drawings, specifications, reports and other project documentation and ensure that your allocated activities are completed whilst meeting budget, timeframe and quality objectives, also ensuring that client expectations are met. 

You will also be able to apply your analytical, technical writing and design skills at project level and contribute to the resolution of technical issues on projects, working under the supervision of a Senior Engineer.

Qualifications & Experience:

First and foremost, you share our passion for improving the quality of life. You pride yourself for the part you play in transforming the world around you and understand the importance of teamwork. You are a technically capable and come to us with:

  • A BSc/BEng or MSc/MEng in Electrical Engineering or similar
  • Evidence that you’re working towards becoming a Chartered Engineer (CEng)
  • Previous relevant experience in a similar role designing electrical systems within buildings
  • An understanding of the design of individual elements of a project and how it ultimately interfaces with the client

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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