Electrical Project Engineer

Job Description

Client: Working throughout several sectors including commercial, residential, education, and data centres, the business has seen a significant amount of growth in the last 5 Years. With a traditional engineering mindset and reinvestment into new principals, the business expects 2025 to be a similar period of growth. After a successful year despite the circumstances, they are now looking to increase turnover to £220M, consequently they are looking to expand their operations team. Despite their size, my client are a family owned and run business and this is a trait they pride themselves on with well over 80% of their clients using them on multiple occasions because of the nature of the business.

Role: Electrical Project Engineer - Central London - £350-£400 per day CIS

The successful candidate will be responsible for managing the procurement, technical submittals and drawings on a commercial office fit out project.

Role/Responsibilities:

• Read, understand and scrutinise Specifications
• Assist with management of design stage
• Procurement of sub-contractors, kit and plant
• Investigate Value Engineering
• Assist with preparation of Contract Documents I.e. Method Statements, Risk Assessments, RFI’s, etc.
• Coordination and management of direct labor
• Instruct and coordinate site managers
• Progress reporting
• Overseeing commissioning and testing
• Working with Quantity Surveyor on Commercial Accounts
• Preparation of OMs for final project handover

The ideal candidate:

• Experience delivering major fit out projects
• Experience managing projects to a minimum of £5m Electrical value
• A minimum 5 years’ experience in a management role
• Ideally the candidate will have subcontracted to main contractors such as Multiplex, Mace, Lend Lease and Kier.
• Must be technically astute and a good people manager