Principal Electrical Engineer - Thermal

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you. A little more about your role…

In this role, you will lead and develop innovative solutions to complex problems, delivering projects at various stages of maturity. You will prepare and develop electrical deliverables, collaborate with equipment vendors, and assess the condition of electrical assets. You will collaborate with the team on the following :  Working with the wider project team to lead and develop cost-effective, efficient and innovative solutions to complex problems to create practical designs.

Delivering projects in a variety of stages of maturity, including Feasibility Studies, Concept Designs, FEED Studies, Value Engineering and Detailed Design.

Preparation and development of Electrical deliverables such as Single Line Diagrams, cable calculations, cable block diagrams, plant layouts, cable routing, cable containment design, switchgear configurations philosophies and produce bill of materials / quantities for electrical systems.

Working with equipment vendors on developing designs of equipment packages and participating in technical evaluations of vendor designs.  Working with owners, operators and investors to assess the condition of electrical assets and their designs for their capability, risk, opportunity and need for intervention.

Developing proposals and bids for the EC&I discipline and contributing to multi disciplinary proposals. Your Team Our team’s expertise covers all Energy Transition generation and conversion technologies including novel, first of a kind concepts and other low or zero carbon technology. Working together with private developers, power utilities, government bodies, banks, lending agencies, contractors and OEM’s we safely deliver projects whilst meeting and exceeding client expectations. wsp.com page 1 Principal Electrical Engineer Our teams are tactically placed in the UK, India, Ireland and wider Europe. We work internationally with our clients and other Energy sector teams in North America, Middle East, Africa, South America, Asia, New Zealand and Australia. The Energy Transition team provides services to Clients from inception through development, construction, operation, and decommissioning. An approach that sees us support our clients over the entire lifecycle of a project. What we will be looking for you to demonstrate…

• Degree qualification in relevant Engineering subject supported with significant post graduate experience in electrical design and or operation, maintenance and testing.
• Chartered Engineer and a member of relevant Engineering Institute.
• The ability and desire to assume a lead role in the development of Electrical deliverables and or the assessment of assets under construction or in operation.
• Knowledge of design construction and operation of power and energy projects.
• Proven understanding of either the design process and ability to demonstrate working knowledge of brief / scope documents, design concepts as well as experienced in producing calculations and or the commissioning, operation, maintenance and testing of medium and high voltage equipment and systems