24 principal electrical design engineer jobs found in Exeter

Principal Electrical Design Engineer Location: Devon | Salary: DOE + Performance Bonus Benefits: 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays + Pension + Private Medical + Hybrid & Flexible Working Overview We are seeking a Principal Electrical Design Engineer to join a leading multi-disciplinary consultancy in Devon. This senior role offers the opportunity to lead electrical design on technically complex, sustainable building services projects, including commercial offices, healthcare facilities, heritage redevelopments, and innovative educational spaces. The Principal Electrical Design Engineer will take ownership of electrical systems design, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to business development while enjoying the exceptional lifestyle and work-life balance Devon has to offer. Key Responsibilities Lead electrical design across a diverse range of building projects, ensuring high-quality, sustainable solutions Prepare technical specifications, drawings, calculations, and...

Principal Electrical Design Engineer Location: Devon | Salary: DOE + Performance Bonus Benefits: 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays + Pension + Private Medical + Hybrid & Flexible Working Overview We are seeking a Principal Electrical Design Engineer to join a leading multi-disciplinary consultancy in Devon. This senior role offers the opportunity to lead electrical design on technically complex, sustainable building services projects, including commercial offices, healthcare facilities, heritage redevelopments, and innovative educational spaces. The Principal Electrical Design Engineer will take ownership of electrical systems design, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to business development while enjoying the exceptional lifestyle and work-life balance Devon has to offer. Key Responsibilities Lead electrical design across a diverse range of building projects, ensuring high-quality, sustainable solutions Prepare technical specifications, drawings, calculations, and...

Principal Electrical Design Engineer Location: Devon | Salary: DOE + Performance Bonus Benefits: 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays + Pension + Private Medical + Hybrid & Flexible Working Overview We are seeking a Principal Electrical Design Engineer to join a leading multi-disciplinary consultancy in Devon. This senior role offers the opportunity to lead electrical design on technically complex, sustainable building services projects, including commercial offices, healthcare facilities, heritage redevelopments, and innovative educational spaces. The Principal Electrical Design Engineer will take ownership of electrical systems design, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to business development while enjoying the exceptional lifestyle and work-life balance Devon has to offer. Key Responsibilities Lead electrical design across a diverse range of building projects, ensuring high-quality, sustainable solutions Prepare technical specifications, drawings, calculations, and...

We are recruiting for a Principal Electrical Design Engineer for a permanent role based on Severn Beach, Bristol. As a Principal Design Engineer, you can drive the development of how we deliver electrical engineering, leading our transition to better ways of working. Through mentorship and guidance, you will help less experienced staff to grow their skills and ensure our designs are of world class quality and right first time. Key Responsibilities: Recognised as a leader in your area of expertise within the organisation. Ensure all work complies with our company standards. Ensure all work complies with the required market standards (E.g. EN standards). Provide technical information required for manuals and other documentation. Maintain and promote the implementation of professional standards. Work with other designers and departments to ensure specifications are clear and complete. Work with other departments to translate the technical requirements into structured modular...

Senior / Principal Electrical Design Engineer – Building Services Location: Southampton | Hybrid Working | Full-Time Salary: Highly Competitive + Bonus + Excellent Benefits About the Role We are seeking a Senior / Principal Electrical Design Engineer to join a respected and growing M&E consultancy in Southampton. This is a hands-on, leadership-focused role, ideal for an engineer ready to take ownership of complex building services projects across healthcare, education, research, commercial, and industrial sectors. As a Senior / Principal Electrical Design Engineer , you’ll oversee technical delivery, mentor junior engineers, and engage directly with clients, ensuring sustainable, low-carbon electrical solutions are delivered to the highest standards. Key Responsibilities Lead electrical design packages on medium to large-scale projects, from concept through to construction and handover Oversee technical quality and compliance with UK regulations, BS 7671, and...

Senior / Principal Electrical Design Engineer – Building Services Location: Southampton | Hybrid Working | Full-Time Salary: Highly Competitive + Bonus + Excellent Benefits About the Role We are seeking a Senior / Principal Electrical Design Engineer to join a respected and growing M&E consultancy in Southampton. This is a hands-on, leadership-focused role, ideal for an engineer ready to take ownership of complex building services projects across healthcare, education, research, commercial, and industrial sectors. As a Senior / Principal Electrical Design Engineer , you’ll oversee technical delivery, mentor junior engineers, and engage directly with clients, ensuring sustainable, low-carbon electrical solutions are delivered to the highest standards. Key Responsibilities Lead electrical design packages on medium to large-scale projects, from concept through to construction and handover Oversee technical quality and compliance with UK regulations, BS 7671, and...

Senior / Principal Electrical Design Engineer – Building Services Location: Southampton | Hybrid Working | Full-Time Salary: Highly Competitive + Bonus + Excellent Benefits About the Role We are seeking a Senior / Principal Electrical Design Engineer to join a respected and growing M&E consultancy in Southampton. This is a hands-on, leadership-focused role, ideal for an engineer ready to take ownership of complex building services projects across healthcare, education, research, commercial, and industrial sectors. As a Senior / Principal Electrical Design Engineer , you’ll oversee technical delivery, mentor junior engineers, and engage directly with clients, ensuring sustainable, low-carbon electrical solutions are delivered to the highest standards. Key Responsibilities Lead electrical design packages on medium to large-scale projects, from concept through to construction and handover Oversee technical quality and compliance with UK regulations, BS 7671, and...

Note for Recruitment Agencies: We prefer to hire directly and we will be in touch with our PSL Agencies if this role is eligible for release. We do not accept speculative CVs from agencies. If speculative CVs are sent, no fee will be applicable – please direct all queries to the relevant Resourcing Partner. Job Title: Electrical Principal Design Engineer Location: UK Wide Division: Infrastructure – Environment Reports to: Design Delivery Manager About Us Galliford Try is one of the UK’s leading construction businesses, delivering vital infrastructure that creates lasting value for communities. As a FTSE organisation employing over , people, we offer long-term stability, technically challenging projects and genuine career development across our Infrastructure, Building and Specialist Services divisions. Our Infrastructure – Environment Business Following several strategic acquisitions, we are now the largest Tier contractor operating in the UK Water and...

The UK&I energy sector is undergoing a seismic shift. Surging demand, stricter regulations, and ambitious net-zero goals are driving groundbreaking innovation. Here's your chance to be at the heart of it all. Are you a passionate experienced Electrical Engineer with experience of working with HV and EHV voltages with experience of working with UK requirements/regulations? We are looking to recruit experienced Electrical Design Engineers at varying level of seniority from Experienced (ideally Chartered), to Senior, Principal and Senior Principal levels) to join the team across the UK. You will have the opportunity to get involved in wide range of projects including energy from waste, solar, interconnectors, windfarms, substations, OHL, energy building design, protection systems, LVAC, pump stations, etc. For more info on our projects, hear what our team have to say here . As a Principal/Senior Electrical Engineer, you will play a key role in all aspects of projects, from...

Note for Recruitment Agencies: We prefer to hire directly and we will be in touch with our PSL Agencies if this role is eligible for release. We do not accept speculative CVs from agencies. If speculative CVs are sent, no fee will be applicable – please direct all queries to the relevant Resourcing Partner. Job Title: Electrical Principal Design Engineer Location: UK Wide Division: Infrastructure – Environment Reports to: Design Delivery Manager About Us Galliford Try is one of the UK’s leading construction businesses, delivering vital infrastructure that creates lasting value for communities. As a FTSE organisation employing over , people, we offer long-term stability, technically challenging projects and genuine career development across our Infrastructure, Building and Specialist Services divisions. Our Infrastructure – Environment Business Following several strategic acquisitions, we are now the largest Tier contractor operating in the UK Water and...

Market Energy At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good. Your impact Jacobs is playing a leading role in the global energy transition. As our UK and Continental Europe team continues to expand, we are seeking a Principal Cable System Engineer to support a range of high-profile projects across our Power & Energy portfolio. This includes high voltage AIS and GIS Substations, transmission system assets, HVDC interconnectors, and energy storage systems. You will lead the design delivery for Cable System Projects up to 400kV, from the tendering stage through to project handover. Responsibilities include but are not limited to: Developing HV/EHV cabling systems specifications, concept/detailed design and...

Joining Arup Arup undertakes transmission and distribution design projects across the globe. In the UK we deliver concept through to detail design for a wide range of clients including established asset owners and new market entrants (interconnectors, private wire schemes etc). As an example, Arup recently formed a joint venture with AECOM to serve as the design and consenting service partner for the UK National Grid’s Great Grid Partnership. Over a period of 8–12 years, Arup will help deliver key aspects of the transmission grid transformation, ensuring a resilient, low-carbon energy network for the future. This is the UK’s major grid modernisation programme, set to deliver five times more electricity infrastructure than has been built in the past three decades. These projects, part of the Accelerated Strategic Transmission Investment (ASTI) framework, will enhance the country’s energy backbone, supporting planned renewable developments such as wind farms in the North Sea and...

Role purpose Bridges are currently looking to hire an Electrical Design Engineer on a permanent basis. We are hiring for this opportunity due to continued growth. As our business expands, the demand for our expertise grows, and we need a skilled EICA Design Engineer to join us. In this role, your designs will play a pivotal role in ensuring the success and efficiency of our projects. The primary objective is to collaboratively provide accurate and consistent designs that are delivered within budgets and to agreed timescales. You will have the opportunity to work across MEICA engineering works across the water industry, we are now working with all 10 main water and sewage companies across England and Wales. At Bridges we are more than Engineers. We are listed on the Sunday Times Top 100 Places to Work 2024. As a team we shape and support engineering and construction for our clients who in turn touch the daily lives of millions of people across the UK. We have a large...

Role purpose Are you a Mechanical Design Engineer with a background in the water and wastewater sector? Due to continued success building on our existing framework agreements and a confident growth plan in AMP 8 and AMP 9, across all 10 major water and wastewater companies in England and Wales, we’re seeking a confident, innovative professional to lead the design and delivery of complex infrastructure projects. Join our dynamic and growing team as a Mechanical Design Engineer with a passion for engineering sustainable assets which our valued customers are proud to own and operate. Role is available in our Midsomer Norton Office (Head Office), or Newport office or our Swansea office. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to work on a diverse range of challenging projects, from innovative treatment systems to infrastructure upgrades, all while collaborating with a supportive, forward-thinking team of 40+ engineers.  Your expertise will shape sustainable engineering...

Role purpose Are you a Mechanical Design Engineer with a background in the water and wastewater sector? Due to continued success building on our existing framework agreements and a confident growth plan in AMP 8 and AMP 9, across all 10 major water and wastewater companies in England and Wales, we’re seeking a confident, innovative professional to lead the design and delivery of complex infrastructure projects. Join our dynamic and growing team as a Mechanical Design Engineer with a passion for engineering sustainable assets which our valued customers are proud to own and operate. Role is available in our Midsomer Norton Office (Head Office), or Newport office or our Swansea office. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to work on a diverse range of challenging projects, from innovative treatment systems to infrastructure upgrades, all while collaborating with a supportive, forward-thinking team of 40+ engineers.  Your expertise will shape sustainable engineering...

Are you an experienced HV Cable Design Engineer looking for exciting new challenges? Enter our talent pool for future opportunities! The transmission and distribution sector is rapidly transforming against a backdrop of growing demand, regulatory changes, ambitious carbon reduction targets and new innovations in technology. Due to continued growth, we are open to speaking with experienced HV Cable Design Engineers for future opportunities. We are open to exploring future opportunities in line with our growth across ideally Principal/Senior Engineer levels in our Energy Team. This team presents an exciting opportunity to get involved in a wide variety of projects, across various technical disciplines with clients across country. These projects can include HVDC, interconnectors, windfarms, substations, OHL, geotechnical solutions, building design, protection systems, LVAC, FEED, new builds, refurbishment works, connections schemes etc. The role is to work as part of the Cable...

Are you an experienced HV Cable Design Engineer looking for exciting new challenges? Enter our talent pool for future opportunities! The transmission and distribution sector is rapidly transforming against a backdrop of growing demand, regulatory changes, ambitious carbon reduction targets and new innovations in technology. Due to continued growth, we are open to speaking with experienced HV Cable Design Engineers. We are open to exploring future opportunities in line with our growth across ideally Principal/Senior Engineer levels in our Energy Team. This team presents an exciting opportunity to get involved in a wide variety of projects, across various technical disciplines with clients across country. These projects can include HVDC, interconnectors, windfarms, substations, OHL, geotechnical solutions, building design, protection systems, LVAC, FEED, new builds, refurbishment works, connections schemes etc. The role is to work as part of the Cable team on electrical...

Joining Arup Arup undertakes transmission and distribution design projects across the globe. In the UK we deliver concept through to detail design for a wide range of clients including established asset owners and new market entrants (interconnectors, private wire schemes etc). As an example, Arup recently formed a joint venture with AECOM to serve as the design and consenting service partner for the UK National Grid’s Great Grid Partnership. Over a period of 8–12 years, Arup will help deliver key aspects of the transmission grid transformation, ensuring a resilient, low-carbon energy network for the future. This is the UK’s major grid modernisation programme, set to deliver five times more electricity infrastructure than has been built in the past three decades. These projects, part of the Accelerated Strategic Transmission Investment (ASTI) framework, will enhance the country’s energy backbone, supporting planned renewable developments such as wind farms in the North Sea and...

Company Description Work with Us. Change the World. At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations. There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of nearly 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world. We’re one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us. Job Description...

Market Energy At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good. Your impact Jacobs is playing a leading role in the global energy transition. As our UK and Continental Europe team continues to expand, we are seeking a Principal Cable System Engineer to support a range of high-profile projects across our Power & Energy portfolio. This includes high voltage AIS and GIS Substations, transmission system assets, HVDC interconnectors, and energy storage systems. You will lead the design delivery for Cable System Projects up to 400kV, from the tendering stage through to project handover. Responsibilities include but are not limited to: Developing HV/EHV cabling systems specifications, concept/detailed design and...