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…
WSP have an opportunity for an experienced Principal/Associate Electrical Engineer with a background in Healthcare projects to be based our London team.
You will join a large, dynamic and supportive team working across all sectors and on some of the most exciting and prestigious projects in the world. There is an immediate need to support a large team leading the mechanical design for a new large and complex healthcare project.
To find out more about our Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing business click on the following link and discover what awaits you at WSP: https://www.wsp.com/en-GB/services/mechanical-electrical-and-plumbing
As an associate director electrical engineer you will be taking a leading role in a number of our most prestigious projects.
General
- Work in a joint leadership capacity within a mechanical, electrical and public health (MEP) discipline team providing design and technical advice in a WSP project manager capacity on a wide range of projects.
- Supervise the completion of detailed designs and supervise the work of others in this function
- Consider the feasibility of the project and lead the overall feasibility study
- Take responsibility for and direct others in the production of detailed/performance specification
Act as the client’s key point of contact and responsible for overall project delivery in terms of client deliverables and internal KPI’s
Business Development
- Provide excellent client care & the opportunities to develop additional business for the team
- Assist with developing the client relationship to promote new commissions
Promote WSP’s capabilities and expertise in the region
Management
- Take responsibility for and direct others in the production of detailed and performance specification for the discipline subject to review by colleagues prior to issue.
- Development and line management of junior staff.
- Regularly brief the project team, explaining the appointment. Ensure contracts/letters of intent are in place for all projects before work starts
- Maintain project overview & understanding of the team workload & associated resource requirements, and work with the team leaders to ensure resources are fully utilised across your associated projects.
- Hold regular team meetings to discuss resourcing, staff issues, H&S, quality, training & development & all other relevant issues, including UK & Board briefs in support of your Discipline’s Team Leader
- The London team is a close group of engineers working together in an effective and cooperative team atmosphere with a flexible hybrid working model to working practices. Our team find this a hugely beneficial feature of managing a healthy work life balance
- The London team are directly involved in mission critical building and infrastructure projects at Europe’s busiest airport.
- We will be looking to you to not only be a client facing representative of WSP, but also to lead an engineering delivery team in providing innovative and sustainable solutions.
As part of the wider WSP team we will be looking to you to incorporate our philosophies of sustainability, net zero carbon, digital design, modern methods of construction and smart systems into your design work.
Your Team
- You will work closely with likeminded individuals on exciting and challenging projects.
- Building Services in London consists of more than a 100 mechanical, electrical, and public health engineers including our E&S and Smart Team members.
- We make extraordinary efforts to attract, develop, engage and retain the best professionals in our fields of expertise because this is what makes us great
- We put the highest ethical standards at the centre of all we do, and professionalism is inherent in our offering
- We are humble and act with moral and intellectual integrity, keep our word, treat everyone with respect, support our colleagues, and embrace diversity.
- We care about individuals and their progress and offer the most fulfilling career development for our professionals. We promote our young recruits because we believe fresh perspectives bring great ideas and new energy.
You will be based in our Chancery Lane office in the Centre of London, offering easy commuting options and a load of amenities just around the corner.
What we will be looking for you to demonstrate…
- Have a background in Building Services electrical design engineering with a specialism in Healthcare projects
- Have the ability to work as part of a team, but also take a leading role in managing engineers towards the deli