Resident Engineer Electrical

RPS has great opportunities for  Resident Engineers Electrical  to join our site based teams for roles in the South East, South West, and North West

About the Role:

We are seeking a number of  Resident Engineers Electrical  to work on major above and below ground water utility projects helping to deliver important infrastructure for their customers and to ensure that the works are carried out in accordance with the contract documents (works requirements).

The duties of the roles shall include, but not be limited to:

• Monitor and report on works being carried out onsite
• Monitor the Contractor for compliance with the Safety Health & Welfare at Work (Construction) Regulations
• Prepare excellent technical reports and presentations for internal and external use.

Qualifications and Experience

The desired qualifications and experience for the Resident Engineers Electrical are:

• Level 8 degree in Electrical Engineering
• 7+ years of relevant post graduate experience in engineering including site works supervision and monitoring of safe working practices. Ideally this will include water sector projects. Experience of pipeline treatment plant work will be an advantage.
• Hold a clean driving licence
• Hold current Safepass, Managing safely in construction and manual handling.

About You - Core Competencies:

• Safety and Delivery focussed
• Accountable
• Self-motivated/Initiative
• Works well as part of a team.
• Computer skills - MS Office Suite (advanced user of MS Excel preferred).
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work within a diverse multi-disciplinary team with excellent people management skills.
• Verbal – excellent communications skills.
• Have a good knowledge & experience of Health & Safety legislation and regulations.
• Working knowledge of Public Works and FIDIC form of contract
• Detailed understanding of Health & Safety legislation and regulations
• Track record of leading or working in site supervision teams
• Team Player with excellent communication skills (both written and verbal), team working skills and analytical skills
• Ability to lead and motivate themselves and others; willingly takes ownership of issues and seeks team participation to achieve best solution
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, and make recommendations
• Ability to devise new approaches to problems encountered

What we offer you:

We encourage and value different ideas, perspectives, and styles of thinking. We need a mix of experiences and skills to develop the most innovative ideas. We respect one another and recognise the potential and contribution of everyone. You’ll be joining a diverse community and a company that puts its people first and prioritises their wellbeing.

We understand the need to work flexibly, with agile offices and hybrid working offered as standard, we’re happy to talk about flexible working. This is a workplace that works for you.

A career here is far from ordinary. Here you’re not a number, your part of the solution. Our employees are rewarded with competitive salaries, opportunities to invest and many other benefits including: 23 days holiday increasing with service + bank holidays, Company pension scheme, Disability Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme, Health Screening, Employee Assistance Programme, Professional Memberships and Sponsored Education.

About RPS:

RPS a TetraTech company, is a leading international professional services company providing management, engineering, planning, environmental, sustainability and communications consultancy, employing over 600 staff in Ireland with a global staff of 27,000 plus employees across UK, Europe, US and Australia

We benefit from the scale of business that allows us to work on large and/or exciting projects and, at the same time, we retain the local presence in our markets which fosters positive engagement with our clients.

We define, design and manage projects that create shared value in a complex, urbanising and resource-scarce world. Connecting with our global expertise we make it easy for our clients to create winning solutions for their communities and their clients. By being confidently pragmatic we solve problems that matter. We make complex easy.

What happens next:

The Talent Acquisition Team will be in touch to let you know the outcome of your application. If your application is progressed, you’ll have a conversation with one of our recruiters and then there’ll be a two-stage interview process with the Team.

All applications will be considered, and we will try our best to respond to you within seven working days.

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We know we develop better solutions together.

That’s why we’re committed to ensuring Fairness, Inclusivity, and Respect in all that we do. For us to live our purpose of creating shared value and to deliver on our promise to ‘make complex easy’ – for us and for our clients, we continue to build a culture where different working styles and experiences can thrive to achieve exceptional results.

We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and work in partnership with Inclusive Employers. We’re also proud to support reservists and their families, having signed the Armed Forces Covenant. An inclusive culture enables our people to do things differently, working in ways to suit them while delivering their best for RPS. That’s why we’ve created working groups as true inclusion is a journey that involves learning, collaboration, and engagement.


Please let us know if you require any adjustments during the interview process, we can then make reasonable changes to support you in performing to the best of your ability. Recruitment Agencies

We have a Preferred Supplier List of trusted partners to assist us when required and do not acknowledge any speculative CVs or unsolicited candidate introductions from agencies not on this list. Please refer to the careers page on our website if you require any further information.