Senior Principal Electrical Engineer – Water Sector

Overview

In this Senior Principal Electrical Engineer role, you will provide strategic technical leadership across complex water and wastewater projects in the UK. You will shape technical strategy, oversee EICA design delivery, and mentor engineers within a collaborative, multidisciplinary team. Your work will help deliver safer, more efficient, and more sustainable assets while supporting the industry’s transition to resilience. This position offers influence across major programmes and a path to grow our engineering capability.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive salary
• bonus schemes
• enhanced pension plan
• private medical insurance
• life assurance
• annual leave with buy/sell options

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of complex electrical and EICA design solutions across major infrastructure and non-infrastructure projects
• Act as a technical authority, guiding design standards, engineering approaches and project delivery
• Oversee production and review of key deliverables such as Single Line Diagrams, Block Cable Diagrams, Network Infrastructure Diagrams, technical specifications and control philosophies
• Collaborate with clients, project managers, contractors and multidisciplinary teams to achieve coordinated outcomes
• Provide technical mentorship and leadership to engineers, supporting capability development across the team
• Contribute to business growth through client relationships, framework delivery, bids and continuous improvement initiatives

Key requirements

• Degree qualified in Electrical Engineering or related discipline
• Chartered Engineer (CEng) status or working towards registration
• Extensive experience delivering electrical or EICA design within water, utilities, infrastructure or related sectors
• Proven track record leading complex engineering projects and providing technical direction
• Strong knowledge of electrical engineering standards, design processes and technical governance
• Experience mentoring, developing and supporting engineers
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence clients, stakeholders and project teams

• communication
• leadership
• mentoring
• electrical/EICA design
• knowledge of electrical engineering standards
• design governance

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