Associate / Associate Director - Electrical Engineering

Atkins' Building Design division are looking to appoint an Associate / Associate Director Electrical Engineer into our Building Services Practice in Epsom. The Building Services Practice is part of a multi-disciplinary division that is trusted to deliver some of the industry's most challenging and time critical engineering projects.

Atkins’ Building Design division provides multidisciplinary engineering services and integrated solutions across a wide range of projects relating to buildings and infrastructure. Drawing upon a diverse skill set and a proven track record of delivery we are playing a leading role in some of the world’s most challenging and exciting engineering projects across sectors including Airports, Defence, Energy, Civil Infrastructure, Nuclear, Education and Rail.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced Electrical Engineer to continue to develop their career within an internationally renowned consultant. 


Responsibilities

• To lead delivery on Electrical Building Services design on UK and international projects
• Act as Project Manager on engineering projects
• Motivate and develop the Building Services team to consistently deliver excellent performance
• Strategic technical decision making and provision of strategic technical direction to the electrical engineering teams
• Establish and develop strong client relationships with new clients and build relationships with existing clients, securing repeat business and identifying opportunities to sell new services
• Coordination between the M&E Disciplines and across the multi discipline team.
• Own resource schedule for your projects and liaise with other team leaders to maximise staff utilisation and Multi-discipline opportunities
• Lead bids for Building Services and Multidiscipline projects
• Ownership of commercial reporting for your projects as Project Manager with emphasis on accurate forecasting of costs as well as income

Requirements

• Chartered Engineer - IET, CIBSE or equivalent
• Experience of working in a large design consultancy
• Experience of working within a contractor environment
• Ability to manage a technical team at a senior level within an engineering design consultancy
• High level of technical skill in Electrical Building Services
• Experience of dealing with clients, building strong working relationships
• Commercially focused
• Able to see wider picture outside own discipline in projects
• Able to understand and express technical concepts in written and verbal language
• Able to innovate new solutions as well as applying existing solutions to problems
• Able to make decisions, act on own initiative and operate in a pro-active way
• A confident and articulate communicator, with good verbal and presentation skills
• Project management experience ensuring work is delivered on time and to budget


Employee benefits:

Atkins offers a fantastic range of benefits, which you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices.

All the information you need to know is available on our dedicated benefits portal; your reward, which is available to access 24/7 from any device: https://www.yourrewardatkins.com


This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary it will be discussed with you at interview.

If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation), or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.