Senior Electrical Engineer

Are you an experienced Electrical Engineer with a passion for creating sustainable solutions?


Join Stantec and help us tackle the urgent climate and efficiency challenges facing our communities! We are looking for a Senior/Principal Electrical Engineer to join our growing team in Glasgow or Edinburgh and make a real impact on vital infrastructure projects across the UK.


With the AMP8 cycle well underway, you will be essential in delivering complex EICA design services for our clients in the Water, Energy, and Environmental sectors.


Your Role: Driving Design Excellence


You will work in multidisciplinary teams, leading projects from concept design and optioneering through to detailed design and site investigations. Key responsibilities include:

• Producing critical outputs like Single Line Diagrams, Block Cable Diagrams, and Network Infrastructure Diagrams.
• Developing and reviewing technical specifications, control philosophies, and EICA schedules.
• Providing technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers.
• Liaising with clients, contractors, and stakeholders in technical workshops (e.g., HAZOPs, ALMs).

About You


You are a Chartered or Incorporated Electrical Engineer with significant experience in EICA engineering design. While Water sector experience is a plus, we welcome candidates from the energy, infrastructure, and environmental sectors. A working understanding of DSEAR requirements for EICA design is advantageous. You thrive on collaborating and communicating complex technical solutions.


Why Stantec?

• Growth & Opportunity: This is an excellent chance to join an ambitious team with clear pathways for career progression.
• Sustainability Leader: We are consistently recognised in the top 10 Corporate Knights most sustainable companies in the world.
• Collaborative Culture: We pride ourselves on our friendly, close-knit, and collaborative environment.
• Great Benefits: Competitive salary, excellent pension, free private medical insurance, flexible working, and more.

Ready to lead vital infrastructure projects in Scotland and beyond? Apply today!


About Stantec


The Stantec community unites more than 34,000 employees working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. We plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities.


Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our clients' vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insights. We deal with today's challenges, but also keep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy and meet the needs of future communities.


Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.


Building an inspired, inclusive work environment that attracts, supports, and develops world-class talent is a crucial key to our success. If you are excited by this role but worry that your experience doesn't exactly align, we encourage you to apply.


At Stantec we want you to perform your best at every stage of the recruitment process and are committed to ensuring it is accessible to all. If you need any support or require adjustments to be made then please contact [email protected] we will talk to you about how we can support you.


ReqID: 8215