Senior Electrical Project Engineer

A Fantastic Senior Electrical Project Engineer Opportunity To ‘Power the Transition to A Carbon Free Future’

Powersystems UK is a leading high voltage engineering company. We specialise in electrical power infrastructure, grid connections and renewable energy generation. Due to continuing success within these sectors, we have a pipeline of work into 2025 and beyond.

• Are you looking to advance your career with full training provided? 
• Do you want to join an established team in an exciting and progressive British business?

We Are Recruiting for a Senior Electrical Project Engineer

Salary: Dependent on qualifications and experience
Job type: Full time and Permanent

This exciting opportunity to join our team has been created because of our continued success and expansion within the marketplace, in particular the renewable energy industry. We are looking to recruit an experienced Senior Electrical Project manager; this role will involve travel within the UK and the willingness to work flexibly out of your standard hours as and when required.

Duties and responsibilities of the role include:

• Provide exemplar project management throughout the project life cycle including internal and external resource to ensure project goals and customer expectations are met
• Communicate with manage, mentor and coach Project Engineers, providing advice and guidance from initial concept to completion
• Organising and attend all project briefings and meetings with all stakeholders
• Deliver the commercial and financial goals of projects, agreeing initial budgets, procurement including competitive tenders from the supply chain and forecasting budgets for financial reporting
• Health and Safety - Ensure project compliance with all health and safety adherence, including strategic meeting and planning  of projects, produce RAMs as well as undertaking safety and quality audits
• Build and maintain relationships with our clients and supply chain partners. Provide liaison on design, installation, and commissioning. Attend manufacturers factory acceptance tests
• Inspire and support the in-house design and engineering teams to generate equipment layouts, designs, cable schedules, testing, and commissioning procedures
• Organising the logistics of materials and equipment
• Working across all business function teams and stakeholders proactively provide support and guidance to all parties on compliance with statutory requirements and company standards
• Manage the interface between Powersystems and client, network operator commissioning and third-party engineers
• Embrace and demonstrate Powersystems 5 principles of: Priority No.1 – Health, Safety and Well-being; Professionalism, Pride, Partnership and Proactive

Here’s what you need to be successful in the role:

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience of project management and delivery within the electrical contracting or utility industry
• A proven commitment to the success of the projects you undertake
• An excellent communicator and ambassador of the business at all levels highly confident in managing clients, contractors and third parties supplier relations
• Commercial management of projects and financial forecasting as a minimum between £1-10 Million
• Excellent planning and real ability to ‘look ahead’, whilst supporting business processes
• Full UK driving licence
• Right to Work within the UK without limitation
• Degree, HND in Project Management, ideally experience in HV Systems
• Experience of managing large teams
• Have obtained or working towards professional registration with the IET at IENG/CENG level

Salary and benefits:

• Highly competitive salary depending on experience and qualifications
• Contributory company pension scheme​
• Private health insurance​
• Life insurance
• Employee assistance programme​
• 25 days annual holiday plus paid public holidays, increasing with service​
• Benefit from company profit share as a partner in our business​
• Great training and development opportunities to lead towards chartered status
• Holiday purchase scheme​
• Cycle to work scheme​
• On-site gym​
• Free parking, onsite parking, and electrical vehicle charge points

Powersystems is an Employee-Owned business and has a keen interest in the well-being and success of all its employees. We will encourage and empower you to be imaginative, share your great ideas and be involved in the future success of our business.

Everyone is welcome at Powersystems. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone has a voice and where you feel confident being yourself. We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion.

We offer a positive and rewarding working environment, relaxed in terms of some of our approaches, yet highly professional with excellent support mechanisms in place to develop your knowledge and career. If you believe that you have what it takes to power our future together then we wish to hear from you.

Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK.

Next steps:

We look forward to receiving your application and we will be in touch shortly.