Senior Engineer (Electrical Designer)

Job Description

Overview

The Senior Electrical Engineer will lead the design and delivery of electrical engineering solutions for projects within the Middle East (ME) business. The role involves electrical system design, multidisciplinary coordination, technical reviews, and ensuring compliance with applicable standards, quality requirements, and project schedules. The individual will also support project teams through technical guidance, mentoring, and the successful execution of engineering projects.

Your role

• Uses data, tools, and technology to add value.

• Receives technical training on the job and performs tasks with minimal supervision.

• Questions and challenges conventional work methodologies.

• Able to author competent technical reports of acceptable technical and presentation quality.

• Demonstrates an understanding of international design codes and is emerging as, or accepted as, a subject matter expert in one or more areas of their discipline.

• Develops broad technical competence and can review the work of project team members. Demonstrates an emerging ability to review work on simpler single-discipline projects (Green Technical Risk Category).

• Demonstrates a service-oriented mindset.

• Researches the market and contributes to market intelligence initiatives.

• Leads by example and supports junior team members on CDM, Safe by Design principles, and AtkinsRéalis SMS procedures.

• Participates in updating the PAT Tool for projects.

• Able to independently deliver work and integrate effectively within larger project teams.

• Leads the application of digital technologies on projects and acts as an Information Manager on medium projects or Design Manager on smaller projects.

• Capable of independently producing effort estimates for tasks within their area of expertise or for single-discipline projects.

• Applies professional knowledge and experienced judgment to single-discipline projects within their domain.

• Adapts plans and actions appropriately in response to changing circumstances.

• Familiar with the commercial aspects of project management.

• Able to present and represent their work, as well as team outputs, to clients through meetings and presentations.

• Shares lessons learned and best practices and proactively leads knowledge-sharing sessions within the practice.

• Self-disciplined and capable of managing their own work allocation and that of junior team members.

• Able to plan, prioritize, and execute tasks effectively to meet project deadlines and budget requirements.

• Works proactively and collaboratively within multidisciplinary project teams while contributing to process improvements.

• Possesses strong communication and listening skills and can draft responses to straightforward queries.

• Demonstrates resilience, initiative, and a positive attitude when facing challenges.

• Regularly supervises junior staff.

• Creates an environment where others can make informed decisions by clarifying roles, responsibilities, and providing appropriate support.

• Listens attentively and openly to differing opinions and balances perspectives using impartial judgment and common sense.

• Can take on responsibilities such as an L&D Coordinator, Early Career Mentor, or Digital Champion within their discipline.

• Demonstrates an understanding of people management principles and challenges.

• Leads or co-leads business initiatives such as:

  • L&D Sessions
  • Digital Tool Webinar Sessions
  • TCF Updates
  • OrderWorX Status Tracking Team
  • Timesheet Status Tracking Team
  • ENZ Initiatives
  • Yammer Update Team
  • BD Journal Entry Team
  • Computation Design Network

• Maintains focus and effectively manages multiple concurrent priorities, particularly under pressure.

About you

• Has successfully led small teams to deliver project outcomes.

• Has good client exposure and engagement experience.

• Delivers increasingly complex and broader work packages with reduced supervision.

• Adapts working style and approach to suit changing situations and requirements.

• Demonstrates a proactive and results-driven attitude toward achieving challenging targets.

• Able to lead and deliver tasks or less complex, generally single-discipline, projects to agreed time, cost, and quality parameters.

• Builds effective relationships with a range of LPO colleagues.

• Demonstrates growing awareness of project commercial management and AtkinsRéalis financial systems.

• Produces professional reports with minimal review and rework required.

• Reliably manages teams and supervises junior staff.

• Trains and develops junior staff on relevant tools and technical competencies.

• Implements Sustainability and Net Zero initiatives across projects where applicable.

• Provides clear and precise instructions to less experienced team members.

• Identifies and understands changes to contractual arrangements when they occur.

• Holds relevant professional qualifications, or demonstrates significant progress towards them, such as CEng, RIBA, CEnv, P.Eng, P.E., or APM.

• Able to undertake line management responsibilities and manage a small team.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career.

This includes:

• Comprehensive life insurance coverage.

• Premium medical insurance for you and your dependents.

• Generous annual leave balance.

• Flexible and hybrid work solutions.

• Remote work opportunities outside of country.

• Company gratuity scheme.

• Discretionary bonus program.

• Relocation assistance.

• Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.

Seize every opportunity to sharpen your skills, expand your expertise, and be recognized for the impact you make.

About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.