Job title: Principal Electrical Engineer
Ref: 38519
Division: Asset Operations & Capital Delivery
Location: Hybrid - Hampton Coal Wharf - TW12 2ES
Contract type: Permanent
Full/Part-time: Full-time
Salary: This role will be paying between £60,000 to £75,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience of the successful candidate.
Job grade: C
Closing date: 23/09/2024
Exciting opportunity alert! Are you a Principal Electrical Engineer looking to take on a pivotal role? Join our team to lead the electrical engineering delivery team, ensuring the successful completion of projects. Your responsibilities will include managing studies, developing designs, and implementing technical solutions while meeting cost and schedule targets.
What you'll be doing:
- Get the correct technical requirements in the project technical briefs
- Ensure and deliver the Engineering Regulatory compliance on relevant assets in the Electrical area
- Review or approve Electrical designs as appropriate
- Lead, mentor, and develop an Electrical design team
- Input and continuously improve Technical Asset Standards
- Lead excellence in Electrical Engineering for Thames Water
- Provide technical input into Project Definition Briefs
- Provide the technical sign-off and assurance during technical delivery, including handover
- Ensure compliance with engineering-based regulatory requirements in their area
What you should bring to the role:
- Understanding of the regulatory environment to achieve compliance with our engineering regulatory requirements.
- Comfortable to liaise with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
- Degree level or equivalent with professional chartership likely in their Engineering Discipline.
- Competence in electrical engineering design requires combining technical and other skills, defining a problem, identifying constraints, and employing creativity and innovation.
- Background of Low and High Voltage Systems.
- Understanding of the technology to improve solutions and improve safety.
- Ability to adapt to changes in regulations and their duties and obligations.
What's in it for you:
- Competitive salary from £60,000 to £75,000 per annum.
- 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays).
- Annual Bonus.
- Private Medical Health Care.
- Contributory pension - Defined Contribution - Maximum of 12% -2x employee contribution.
- Personal Medical Assessments - Open to all once a year.
- Wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your wellbeing.
Who are we?
At Thames Water, our purpose is crystal clear - to deliver life's essential service so our customers, communities and planet can thrive. Water is life's great leveller. Every living thing needs it, every single day. We're committed to taking care of it for us all.
Working at Thames Water:
At Thames Water we recognise that people are at the heart of our business. We seek to attract and retain a cultural mix of people who can offer different but complimentary attitudes, values, talents, and knowledge. Our over-arching diversity and inclusion aim is to ensure Thames Water is a diverse and inclusive great place to work. We encourage applications from everyone and offer extra support for those who need it throughout the recruitment process.
Disclaimer: Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.