Senior Electrical Engineer

Job description / Role

We are currently searching for a Senior Electrical Engineer to join our team in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

The Senior Electrical Engineer will be a qualified professional who must have a minimum qualification of a Bachelors/Masters Degree in Engineering (BEng/MEng), achieved or is actively striving for Chartered status and has more than 6 years experience.

Responsibilities:
- Undertake Electrical building services engineering design, from Concept stage through to production information at tender stage.
- Plan and manage CAD documentation of design work
- Under guidance of more senior staff, represent BH at meetings with clients, other professionals and suppliers.
- Carry out project work within agreed deadlines and within budget.
- Meet appropriate service/design decisions.
Inform more senior staff and peers of important and relevant service/design decisions, assert that the objectives of the company and the client are being achieved.
- Coordinating his/her work with other members of the project team
- Work competently on an independent basis
- Prepare technical and financial schedules for new work
- Manage workload of Project Discipline Engineers and Technicians (including verification of quality)
- Prepare and take responsibility for concept and preliminary engineering solutions for detail design
- Prepare Technical Specifications and Reports
- Monitor financial performance of jobs
- Set up and manage job/project administrative systems, including planning and monitoring job resourcing/expenditure (adjusting these as necessary).
- Continually ensuring that practices, policies, strategy and services represent the clients best interests and that BH policy is in keeping with current legislation, British Standards and Codes of Practice etc.
- Add value to a project and think beyond own discipline.
- Have a flexible approach and be a team player.
Commitment to CPD and self learning / development.
- Chartered engineer
- Middle East design experience is desirable but not essential

Requirements

- Bachelors Degree in Engineering (BEng) or Masters Degree in Engineering (MEng)
- Membership of a recognised professional body (CIBSE, IET, IMechE or ASHRAE)
- Significant post graduate and senior experience in a design consultancy environment.
- Ideally previous experience of design in Middle Eastern or equivalent climates.
- Experience of highly serviced environments.
- A good understanding of architecture and a desire to contribute to the built environment.
- Experience of contributing to multiple projects and balancing workload requirements.
- Career minded and looking for a new challenge, with the potential and ambition to progress within the firm.
- Working knowledge of AutoCad software.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office software packages.
- Working knowledge and understanding of British, European and ideally International standards.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Confident and proactive character.
- Use of Revit MEP (Desirable)

Essential Experience:
- 6 years gained within an engineering consultancy
- Proven track record of project design from concept through to the issuance of tender documentation
- Fully conversant with Microsoft office, AutoCad, and software calculation tools

Desirable Experience:
- Middle eastern experience
- Use of Revit MEP
Benefits and Salary:
- Competitive basic salary
- Accommodation allowance
- Transportation Allowance
- 25 Holidays Per annum
- Annual flight allowance
- Healthcare cover
- Accidental death in service cover
- 2 x professional membership subscriptions

Type of contract:
- Permanent

Region:
- Middle East

Office / Project Location:
- Dubai

Closing Date:
- 29/12/2014

About the Company

Described by our clients as passionate, innovative, collaborative: BuroHappold Engineering is an independent, international engineering practice that over the last 40 years has become synonymous with the delivery of creative, value led building and city solutions for an ever changing world. Having worked on every continent, our clients include more than 90% of the worlds leading architectural practices and we have collaborated with global organisations such as the United Nations, The World Bank and UNESCO. Through our global community of driven, world leading engineering professionals we deliver elegant solutions for buildings and cities that seek to address the major problems facing societies today.

As an organisation we strive for progress and are committed to finding new and better ways to deliver elegant solutions. We recognise that this can only happen if our people can keep up with, create and implement the latest developments in technology and ideas. We offer learning and development opportunities at every level, to help shape exciting and personally satisfying careers and ensure our engineers stay at the cutting edge of industry thought.