COWI
Assistant Electrical Engineer
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Assistant Electrical Engineer
Derby
Permanent
Office/Home Hybrid Working
Do you want to kick-start your career in electrical engineering?
Are you looking to build your experience across a diverse range of projects while working alongside experienced engineers? If you're passionate about electrical design, eager to learn, and excited to work on projects that help shape sustainable infrastructure, we'd love to hear from you.
Create Solutions that will enable a better tomorrow
As an Assistant Electrical Engineer, you'll join our growing MEP team and support the delivery of multidisciplinary projects across a variety of sectors. Working under the guidance of experienced engineers, you'll contribute to electrical designs while developing your technical capability and progressing towards professional registration.
Your key responsibilities will be:
- Assisting with the preparation of electrical designs and supporting documentation for projects across buildings, water, data centers, rail, and tunnels
- Supporting the production of load calculations, cable sizing, electrical schematics, and technical reports
- Assisting in the preparation and coordination of electrical layouts and models using Revit and AutoCAD
- Working closely with senior engineers and other disciplines to ensure designs meet client requirements, relevant standards, and project deadlines
- Supporting site surveys, design coordination meetings, and technical reviews
- Assisting with the review and coordination of design information to ensure quality and accuracy
- Developing your technical knowledge through on-the-job learning, mentoring, and formal training
Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.
The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners, or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve.
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On top of that, you'll:
- Have a degree in electrical engineering or a related discipline
- Be pursuing Chartered Engineer status, or an equivalent qualification, through a recognized professional institution
- Have an understanding of electrical engineering principles and a willingness to develop technical design skills
- Have familiarity with Revit and AutoCAD, or a willingness to learn
- Have exposure to electrical design software (such as Trimble ProDesign, ETAP, Amtech, or similar) would be advantageous but is not essential
- Have effective communication skills and the ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary teams
- Have an initiative-taking attitude, strong attention to detail, and enthusiasm for learning
A place to work and so much more
At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers' transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers.
We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home.
With offices primarily located in the Nordic region, the UK, North America and India, we are currently more than 7,500 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.
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What we also offer:
To us, a fair reward is more than a competitive salary. We want to take care of our people professionally and personally as well.
Some of our benefits include:
- 28 days' holiday plus all UK bank and public holidays
- Formalised development plans and yearly promotion opportunities
- Private health care, for you and a contribution from you for your immediate dependents
- Flexible and hybrid working conditions
- Annual subscription fees paid for your membership of two Professional Institutions
- Group personal pension scheme – salary exchange
- Life assurance
- Maternity Leave: 1-20 weeks full pay, 21-26 weeks half pay, 27-39 Statutory (SMP) 40-52 weeks unpaid (eligibility criteria will apply)
- Paternity Leave: 12 weeks full pay (eligibility criteria will apply)
Optional benefits include:
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Electric vehicle lease
- Corporate gym membership
- Annual Rail card (available for under 30s)
Got more questions?
If you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer, please reach out to our Talent Acquisition Specialist Shruti Gupta at srgu@cowi.com.
Get to know us even better at our website, www.cowi.com, where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI.
Equal opportunity employer.
COWI provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, national origin, age or disability. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
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