About the Role
Black & Veatch is seeking an experienced Senior Electrical Engineer to join their UK team, playing a leading role in delivering complex engineering solutions for major infrastructure, energy, and industrial projects. The role involves acting as a technical leader, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, influencing engineering standards, and solving industry challenges.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership across a range of projects and responsibilities.
- Lead the development and delivery of complex electrical engineering designs and solutions.
- Act as a trusted technical specialist and provide guidance to project teams.
- Support multidisciplinary project delivery from concept through to execution.
- Review engineering deliverables, ensuring technical excellence, quality, and compliance.
- Develop engineering standards, procedures, and best practices.
- Manage technical scope, quality, budgets, and schedules for assigned workstreams.
- Collaborate closely with clients, project managers, and engineering teams to deliver successful outcomes.
- Support business development and help identify future opportunities with existing and new clients.
- Mentor and develop engineers across the team, helping build future technical capability.
- Contribute to solutions that address complex infrastructure and energy challenges globally.
Requirements
- A degree in Electrical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
- Significant post-graduate engineering experience, typically 8+ years.
- Experience delivering complex electrical engineering projects.
- Strong technical problem-solving and analytical skills.
- The ability to influence and collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience providing technical leadership, mentoring, or project guidance.
- A commitment to quality, safety, and continuous improvement.
- Must be able to complete applicable pre-employment screening requirements, which may include background checks and other onboarding requirements in accordance with local regulations.
Skills
- Electrical Engineering Design
- Technical Leadership
- Project Delivery
- Problem-Solving
- Collaboration
- Mentoring
- Power Generation
- Transmission & Distribution
- Grid Infrastructure
- Renewable Energy
- Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)
- Industrial Facilities
- Data Centres
- Energy Transition Projects
Location
- Glasgow
- London
Work Type
- Full-Time
- Hybrid (3 days in office, 2 days working from home)
Experience Level
- Senior
- 8+ years post-graduate engineering experience
Education Level
- Degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline
Salary/Compensations
- Excellent salary and benefits package
- Annual bonus scheme
- Global Employee Ownership scheme (circa 10% of salary per annum)
Benefits
- Pension (5% employee/8% employer contribution)
- Private medical cover
- Life Assurance and Income Protection
- 33 days annual leave (includes bank holidays)
- Lifestyle Spending Account ($500 per year)
About the Company
- Black & Veatch is an employee-owned company with over 100 years of experience in delivering critical infrastructure solutions that improve communities and support sustainable growth worldwide.
- The company focuses on breaking down social, economic, and geographic barriers by making critical resources accessible to all.
- Black & Veatch values its professionals, prioritizing their health, happiness, and professional growth, offering flexible work-life balance, a diverse workforce, and career development opportunities.
Equal Opportunity
- BVH, Inc., its subsidiaries and its affiliated companies, complies with all Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) affirmative action laws and regulations.
- Black & Veatch does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, religion, color, sex, national origin, marital status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender Identity and expression, disability, veteran status, pregnancy status or other status protected by law.
- Black & Veatch is committed to being an employer of choice by creating a valuable work experience that keeps its people engaged, productive, safe and healthy.
- By valuing diverse voices and perspectives, Black & Veatch cultivates an authentically inclusive environment for professionals and is able to provide innovative and effective solutions for clients.
