WSP in the UK & Ireland
Senior Electrical Engineer - Lighting & Energy Solutions
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Senior Electrical Engineer - Lighting & Energy Solutions
Senior Electrical Engineer – Lighting & Energy Solutions – WSP
About the Role
What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects, and connect with the brightest minds in your field to achieve the best work of your life.
We are looking for a Senior Electrical Engineer to join our Lighting & Energy Solutions team in the UK and help shape our future development aspirations.
Your Key Responsibilities
You will play a pivotal role in delivering low voltage electrical design and consultancy services, taking ownership of innovative and complex engineering projects while supporting technical leads for nationally significant schemes. Your duties will include:
- Delivering design packages for electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure, renewable energy systems, urban realm projects, and highway schemes—ensuring right-first-time, high-quality, compliant solutions.
- Supporting design team leads and project managers with technical design checks, reviews, and multi-disciplinary coordination.
- Taking leadership on smaller or less complex projects, managing inputs, programme, risk mitigation, and collaborating with stakeholders.
- Supporting junior engineers and technicians, mentoring them to grow professionally.
- Contributing to bid, tender, and commercial activities, including scope definition, methodologies, and estimating.
Key challenges you’ll tackle include:
- Achieving EU charging/robotics, transport microgrids, smart lighting, and integrated storage networks.
- Ensuring safety, compliance (CDM regulations), and risk mitigation in all workstreams.
- Fostering collaborative multi-disciplinary teams from concept to completion.
- Accelerating technical assurance processes and sustainability frameworks.
What We’ll Provide
Join a consultancy where your career progresses as uniquely as you do:
- Global support: Be immersed in one of the largest design teams in the UK with access to a rich technical support network in the UK and globally.
- Professional recognition: Support in achieving IEng or CEng registration through IET membership or another professional institution. Access mentorship and opportunities for further Engineering Council registration.
- Continuous Professional Development (CPD): Funding and support for industry-relevant events, seminars, and training sessions.
- Immersive experiences: Deliver national and international projects with diverse clients and stakeholders, preparing you with real-world engineering expertise.
- Personal growth: Shape your career with leadership opportunities in cleantech, energy transition, and transportation hubs, ensuring high-profile projects.
- Industry-rebounded challenges: From EV charging hubs to support decarbonization, you’ll work at the heart of net-zero objectives.
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Qualifications & Experience
To thrive in this role, we need professionals who demonstrate:
- A strong track record delivering low voltage electrical design, with UK transportation experience a strong preference.
- Hands-on experience in EV and/or broader transport sectors, including feasibility studies, design, installation, or technical assurance.
- Financial management skills by owning work packages, ensuring technical quality, programme delivery, and cost efficiency in a high-performance culture.
- Clear communication skills, able to engage nimbly with internal teams, senior stakeholders, and multinational project teams.
- Evidence of coordinating multi-disciplinary work, including electrical integration.
- Active engagement with or progress towards Engineering Council registration (IEng/CEng) and affiliation with relevant professional institutions (e.g., IET).
- City & Guilds 18th Edition Wiring Regulations (C&G 2382) certification:
- Note: While AutoCAD, Trimble Amtech ProDesign, or ElectricalOM proficiency is beneficial, it is not mandatory.
Don’t Fit All Criteria? Still Apply!
While the above qualifications are ideal, we want to hear how your broader experience aligns with our team’s future opportunities. Let us know how your expertise intersects with the broader Low Voltage, Power, and Smart Energy landscape.
Why Join WSP?
About Us
WSP is one of the world’s leading engineering and professional services firms, consisting of over 69,000 passionate employees dedicated to creating positive, long-lasting impacts. With 11,000+ professionals across the UK and Ireland, we combine invested local experience with global brawn to change the lives of communities worldwide.
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What’s in it for you?
Work-Life Balance
- Practical hybrid flexibility: Work from home two days a week while collaborating in modern, lively offices.
- Chance to regenerate your own life — WSP advocated and practices a caring model that balances your interests with your growth.
Inclusivity & Belonging
- We welcome—require—authenticity to ensure our industry pushes forward through personality-builder cultures.
- Employee-led resource groups bring forth thought-provoking conversations and support equity impacts through training, mentorship, and allyship.
Health & Wellbeing
- Thrive programme to help manage everything from physical health to mental wellness.
- Virtual GP access through the NHS or Irish Medical Council ensures peace of mind with immediate medical advice when needed.
- Flexible benefits:
- 20-40% discounts on annual gym memberships via Gymflex and holistic wellbeing support, including a comprehensive menopause programme.
- Considerate workplace adjustments are provided based on employer policies to support comfortability.
Flexible Time
- ‘My Hour’: One unobtrusive daily hour for personal life, balanced to make acceptance effortless— \ note to WSP: Missing an hour doesn’t mean you lose the day; when the timing suitablest, make it work for you.
- Part-time/flexible work regimes available to suit personal circumstances.
- Seamless holiday and holiday leave bank flexes to adjust to everyone’s schedule.
Your Growth
- Every opportunity—if you’re ready to seize it—leads into larger development. Constant work aided by taxation efficiencies through state-backed profit-sharing projects and retained bonuses.
- Paving your progress through mentorship, training, and mentorships, securing scholarship and mentorship opportunities in annual declared charity partnerships.
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