Senior Electrical Engineer

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Senior or Principal Electrical Engineer

Glasgow

We have exciting opportunities for a Senior or Principal Electrical Engineer to join our firm.

Working alongside the Project Leader, you will be facing clients, responding to our clients’ needs, developing designs and producing reports, specifications and guidance or overseeing testing and commissioning activities. We work closely as a team to ensure we achieve the best results and deliver a consistent high-quality service for our clients.

Hoare Lea has joined Tetra Tech’s High Performance Buildings Group, a global alliance of MEP firms, which consists of Cosentini Associates and Glumac in the US, and NDY in Australia, UK, and Asia Pacific. This combined resource of around 2,500 like-minded people is unique, providing leading expertise in almost every building type.

About us

Hoare Lea is an award-winning engineering consultancy with a creative team of engineers, designers, and technical specialists. We provide innovative solutions to complex engineering and design challenges for buildings.

Irrespective of the scale or complexity of a project, we provide a full range of MEP, environmental and sustainability services, bringing buildings to life and ensuring that they perform in operation as well as they look.

Hoare Lea has joined Tetra Tech’s High Performance Buildings Group, a global alliance of MEP firms.

Why work for us?

You’ll collaborate with the industry’s best, working with a wide range of built-environment specialists.

You’ll be part of progressive and exciting projects, able to experience innovative schemes across all sectors.

You’ll advance your career, your way, thanks to our structured Career Paths framework.

The role

You will be responsible for supporting and delivering electrical designs across different sectors. You will work within a multidisciplinary team of engineers and support staff delivering a consistent high-quality service for clients, ensuring that repeat and new business opportunities are developed, and profitability is achieved. The role is instrumental in helping to continue to grow and develop a team of technically competent engineers within this high-performing sector, as well as seeking new opportunities to develop the business.

What you’ll be doing

You will be working across a range of project sectors such as Commercial, Residential, Healthcare and Education

You will have the opportunity to lead electrical services design on large projects, and lead overall MEP on small to medium sized projects within the office

Responsible for dealing successfully with Clients and other professionals

Awareness of consultant appointment conditions

Define and agree brief with Client

Competently represent Hoare Lea at project meetings

Manage and prioritise the workload of a project team including specialist groups

Host and chair internal project team meetings

Contribute to the professional development of individual team members

Actively lead self and identify opportunities and provide support for career development of others

Monitor project expenditure and report to Project leader

Ensure quality standards and technical accuracy is delivered

Reporting cost and resource requirements to Project leader on a regular basis

What we are looking for

Excellent technical knowledge in Electrical Design Engineering. Thorough understanding of Building Services Engineering and interdisciplinary design through all stages of the design process

Previous consultancy experience: you will appreciate the importance of complementary specialisms such as acoustics, fire engineering and computer modelling in the design of buildings

Autonomous approach: able to lead small to medium sized projects and able to take a brief from the project lead on large projects and deliver & control the tasks required

Responsible for the quality of our outputs

Appreciation of client needs, with ability to face clients

Ability to identity when outsourcing is required e.g. design & CAD work

Understand and identify resource needs

Mentor and supervise junior members of staff

Ideally Chartered engineer or working towards

Our benefits

To reward your hard work and commitment we offer both core and flexible benefits, a competitive salary and industry leading training and development to support you throughout your career.

Core benefits

Private medical scheme

Life Assurance

Income protection

Electric car salary sacrifice scheme (Senior level)

Travel Allowance (Principal level)

25 days annual leave, increasing to 30 with length of service

Contributory pension scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Enhanced Paternity, Maternity & Shared Parental Leave

Season Ticket Loans

Professional membership subscription

Flexitime

Flexible benefits

9-day fortnight – the firm offers all employees the option to work a 9-day fortnight

Hybrid Working – activity-based approach

Employee stock purchase plan – a voluntary program which allows eligible employees to purchase Tetra Tech common stock at a 15% discount

Holiday buy & sell up to 5 days

Study Assistance

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Referral Scheme

Sabbatical Leave

Other flexible benefits include gym and retail discounts, travel & dental insurance and GAYE (Give as you Earn)

Flexible working - We’re happy to discuss flexible working. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage

How to apply

To apply simply complete a CV profile and submit your application, or for further information please contact [email protected]

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Equal opportunities statement

Hoare Lea is committed to ensuring that the most suitably qualified and experienced candidates are appointed to positions within the firm on the basis of job-related criteria.

Reasonable adjustments statement

We're proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunities employer, and we’re committed to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the recruitment process. If you have a disability that might affect your performance at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know about any help or reasonable adjustments as soon possible before any interview or assessment. We’ll work with you to make sure any appropriate support is in place.