Senior / Principal Electrical Critical Systems Engineer

We are an award winning global consultancy and have been named Building’s Engineering Consultant of the Year in 2024, 2022 and 2021. We are at the forefront of the industry, priding ourselves on our exemplary track record of designing innovative and sustainable projects.

Sustainability runs through everything we do at Cundall, and our people are empowered to drive change and decarbonise the built environment. By the end of this decade, we have set ourselves an ambitious goal to only work on projects that meet our zero carbon design criteria, a commitment we have called our Zero Carbon Design 2030 goal. We need engineers who share this passion for sustainability and thrive in designing energy efficient buildings and communities.

Our dedicated Critical Systems team play a key role in making mission critical buildings more energy efficient, sustainable and cost effective to operate. The team works almost exclusively in the data centre field, keeping abreast of current best practice while researching breakthrough technologies that shape future trends.

Our team are a source of world leading expertise and offer a pro-active and collaborative approach to skill development, and professional excellence.

We work closely with our clients to develop, improve and deploy their standard ‘template’ designs across the world and so have the unique opportunity to influence the future of data centre design. We also work on many bespoke data centre projects.

The Role

Join us as we move to our new city centre office and embark on a hyperscale data centre project in the North East. This expansion builds on the incredible successes and growth of our European-wide Critical Systems team.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced and client-focused Senior or Principal Electrical Engineer to join our Critical Systems team in our Newcastle office, and to play a leading role in ensuring the successful delivery of innovative electrical design solutions on some of the most notable and large-scale data centre projects in the world.

You will collaborate within our critical systems team and work closely with colleagues of various disciplines to help drive and manage the delivery of technically excellent and profitable projects.

The role entails you being very closely involved within the design process and production of design deliverables, managing your immediate team of engineers. You will monitor budgets and programme, checking designs and communicating with the wider project and client team.

You will use your existing expertise, enthusiasm and dedication to manage, motivate and inspire your colleagues, including helping to develop less experienced engineers.

You will support, and be supported by, senior staff within the team.

The Skills

Educated to degree level in Electrical Engineering or a Chartered Electrical Engineer (CEng equivalent), you have gained experience in an Electrical Engineering role, ideally within a data centre/critical systems context (electrical distribution and power generation systems etc.).

You have proven experience of detailed co-ordination with other design disciplines and are well-versed in electrical theory and the use of relevant design software. You will also be required to support other team resources including junior engineers and CAD technicians.

You have proven ability in producing schematic diagrams, fault and discrimination studies, preparing specifications and project reports, carrying out site inspections and surveys, and detailed design development, and crucially - you have a passion for accurate design of electrical systems.

Given the collaborative and client focussed nature of this role, excellent communication skills and experience of using your initiative to overcome challenges are essential.

We know that to be the best at what we do we need a diverse workforce underpinned by an inclusive culture. Creating environments where everyone can find joy doing their best work is also great for everyone. That’s why we positively welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and identities, and encourage, support, and celebrate the diverse voices of our people.