Senior Electrical Engineer

About the Position

Shape the Future of Energy and Infrastructure!

Black & Veatch is looking for an experienced Senior Electrical Engineer to join our growing UK team.

Location: Glasgow or London

Working Pattern: 3 days in the office, 2 days working from home

This is an opportunity to play a leading role in delivering complex engineering solutions across major infrastructure, energy, and industrial projects. You'll act as a technical leader, work alongside multidisciplinary teams, influence engineering standards, and help solve some of the industry's most complex challenges.

Whether your background is in power generation, transmission and distribution, substations, renewable energy, industrial facilities, or critical infrastructure, you'll have the opportunity to make a significant impact while developing your career within a globally recognized employee-owned engineering organization.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Electrical Engineer, you'll provide technical leadership across a range of projects and responsibilities, including:

• Leading the development and delivery of complex electrical engineering designs and solutions
• Acting as a trusted technical specialist and providing guidance to project teams
• Supporting multidisciplinary project delivery from concept through to execution
• Reviewing engineering deliverables and ensuring technical excellence, quality, and compliance
• Developing engineering standards, procedures, and best practices
• Managing technical scope, quality, budgets, and schedules for assigned workstreams
• Collaborating closely with clients, project managers, and engineering teams to deliver successful outcomes
• Supporting business development and helping identify future opportunities with existing and new clients
• Mentoring and developing engineers across the team, helping build future technical capability
• Contributing 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

Nice to Have

Experience in one or more of the following areas would be advantageous:

• Power Generation
• Transmission & Distribution
• Grid Infrastructure
• Renewable Energy
• Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)
• Industrial Facilities
• Data Centres
• Energy Transition Projects

We Offer

• Excellent salary and benefits package
• Annual bonus scheme
• 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)
• Global Employee Ownership scheme where your contributions are valued and rewarded annually through share allocations. (circa 10% of salary per annum)

About the Company

At Black & Veatch, our employee-owners go beyond the project. For over a century, we have been breaking down social, economic, and geographic barriers by making life's critical resources accessible to all. Working with us, you will help provide critical expertise as we, along with our valued clients, deliver solutions that positively impact communities around the world. Our professionals are our greatest asset, and we believe nothing is more important than the health, happiness, and professional growth of our employee-owners. With a focus on flexible work-life balance options, an expanding and diverse workforce, and limitless career growth opportunities, we will give you our best to help you give us your best, and together we can build a world of difference.

If you're looking for a role where you can combine technical leadership, project influence, and career development within a globally respected engineering business, we'd love to hear from you!

Additional Information: All applicants must be able to complete applicable pre-employment screening requirements, which may include background checks and other onboarding requirements in accordance with local regulations.

BVH, Inc., its subsidiaries, and its affiliated companies, comply 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 our people engaged, productive, safe, and healthy. We offer professionals an array of health and welfare benefits that vary based on their geographic region and employment status. This may include health, life accident, and disability insurances, paid time off, financial programs, and more. Professionals may also be eligible for a performance-based bonus program.

By valuing diverse voices and perspectives, we cultivate an authentically inclusive environment for professionals and are able to provide innovative and effective solutions for clients.

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