Senior Electrical Engineer

Job Description
Job title: Senior Electrical Engineer - TEMP - Bristol

Engagement type: On Payroll

Cost Centre: GBDU21

Location: AtkinsRéalis, The Hub, 500 Park Avenue, Aztec West

Bristol , BS32 4RZ, United Kingdom

Start Date: ASAP

End date: 30/06/25

Hours per week: 37.5

Charge Rate per hour: £50

Qualification required for this role: Preferably degree qualified electrical engineer.

Expenses: Yes, but relating to undertaking of the work only, i.e. travel to client offices, or sites, or other AR office locations.

Notice Period to Contractor:1 week

Notice Period to Atkins: 1 week

Vetting Level: NA

Contingent Recruitment Point of Contact: Ornella Cox

The AtkinsRéalis Building Design Practice are looking for an experienced Senior/Principal Electrical Design Engineer to join the Bristol team and support project delivery across the Midlands, Southwest & Wales region.

We work across multiple sectors including residential, commercial, education, healthcare, transportation, defence, and energy. Experience in these sectors would be of benefit to the role.

Responsibilities:

Ensuring an understanding of project briefs.

Design and specification of all Electrical Building Services systems - power, earthing, lighting, life safety, telecoms, security, access control, lifts, lightning protection etc.

Carry out (and managing of others), in the production of detailed calculations using industry standard software tools including Excel, Amtech, Dialux/Relux, in-house developed tools, etc.

Preparing technical specifications using NBS.

Work in partnership with AtkinsRéalis international Global Technology Centre (GTC) to add value to building services projects where appropriate.

Collaborate with our BIM team to prepare models and drawings, with a working understanding of Autodesk Revit.

Site surveys, inspections and monitor site works.

Report and technical note writing.

Maintaining complete records and archives to company standards.

Adherence to all quality, environmental & governance processes.

Managing own workload, updating forward plan of workload regularly and working to time allocations.

Managing elements of project delivery and an understanding of budget costings.

Reviewing progress, including reporting any anomalies and changes of scope to the project lead.

Assist with technical development of junior staff.

Requirements:

Degree qualified, or equivalent qualification, in Building Services Engineering / Electrical Engineering or related subjects.

Chartered Engineer with CIBSE or IET preferred.

Good level of computer literacy in a range of software tools including Amtech/Prodesign, Dialux/Relux, NBS and Microsoft packages. Any HV tools will also be beneficial.

Familiar with energy reduction methods and approaches to decarbonising new and existing buildings.

Understanding of energy and carbon related data capture and analytics.

Awareness of the principles of building physics such as passive design solutions and fabric first approaches.

Competent in designing for measurement and verification, including experience of commissioning and post installation evaluation of performance.

Experience of working in a design consultancy and/or experience of working within a contractor design environment is essential.

Detailed knowledge of appropriate technical standards.

Able to take charge of project deliverables, make decisions, act on own initiative and operate in a pro-active way.

Good report writing skills, experience of making presentations to and attending meetings with clients is essential.

Comfortable working within time and cost budgets as agreed at project briefing meetings.

Undertake any other reasonable tasks or duties as required by the management team from time to time, in order to maintain flexibility in the organisation.