Electrical Engineer (Senior)
Posted Today by Progressive Recruitment
Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
Location Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary: The role of Senior Electrical Engineer involves leading technical aspects of complex industrial projects, ensuring customer satisfaction through effective communication and project execution. The engineer will act as the main technical interface with customers, managing multidisciplinary teams and overseeing project milestones. This position requires a strong background in electrical engineering and project management, with a focus on quality, cost, and schedule adherence. The role is remote-friendly, based in Spain, and offers a flexible working environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as the single point of contact (SPOC) for all technical matters with the customer throughout the project lifecycle.
- Lead technical discussions, ensuring clarity and building customer confidence in the proposed solution.
- Ensure customer requirements are understood, validated, and consistently fulfilled during project execution.
- Lead all technical aspects of the project, including design, implementation, testing, and FAT.
- Review, validate, and approve both basic and detailed engineering design in line with contract and specifications.
- Supervise technical execution across factories, suppliers, and testing facilities until project completion.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary technical teams (engineers, designers, suppliers, subcontractors).
- Act as the interface between technical teams, non-technical functions (Project Management, Procurement), and the customer.
- Manage collaboration across multiple sites or countries.
- Lead technical follow-up meetings and ensure timely delivery of project milestones.
- Be fully accountable for the technical scope during the project execution phase.
- Ensure the delivered solution meets performance, quality, cost, and timeline requirements.
- Guarantee consistency between the approved design and actual project delivery.
- Secure final customer approval of the technical solution.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate technical risks.
- Manage changes against contract or agreed design, including evaluation of technical and cost impacts.
- Support the Project Manager in defining variation orders.
- Proactively raise alerts on issues that may impact project performance or customer satisfaction.
Key Skills:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering.
- 8-10 years of experience in electrical design and project execution.
- Proven experience in technical leadership within complex industrial projects.
- Strong knowledge of medium and low voltage systems (MV/LV), transformers, protection and control systems, and electrical system integration.
- Experience managing international and multidisciplinary teams.
- Strong communication and customer-facing skills.
- Fluency in English and Spanish.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Barcelona
Country: Spain
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Detailed Description From Employer:
Electrical Engineer (Senior)
We are looking for an Electrical Engineer with strong experience in electrical engineering and complex industrial project execution. This role will be responsible for the overall technical leadership of the project, acting as the main technical interface with the customer and ensuring that the solution meets quality, cost, and schedule requirements.
Key Responsibilities
Customer Management & Technical Leadership
Act as the single point of contact (SPOC) for all technical matters with the customer throughout the project lifecycle.
Lead technical discussions, ensuring clarity and building customer confidence in the proposed solution.
Ensure customer requirements are understood, validated, and consistently fulfilled during project execution.
Technical Project Execution
Lead all technical aspects of the project, including design, implementation, testing, and FAT.
Review, validate, and approve both basic and detailed engineering design in line with contract and specifications.
Supervise technical execution across factories, suppliers, and testing facilities until project completion.
Coordination
Coordinate multidisciplinary technical teams (engineers, designers, suppliers, subcontractors).
Act as the interface between technical teams, non-technical functions (Project Management, Procurement), and the customer.
Manage collaboration across multiple sites or countries.
Lead technical follow-up meetings and ensure timely delivery of project milestones.
Technical Responsibility
Be fully accountable for the technical scope during the project execution phase.
Ensure the delivered solution meets performance, quality, cost, and timeline requirements.
Guarantee consistency between the approved design and actual project delivery.
Secure final customer approval of the technical solution.
Risk & Change Management
Identify, assess, and mitigate technical risks.
Manage changes against contract or agreed design, including evaluation of technical and cost impacts.
Support the Project Manager in defining variation orders.
Proactively raise alerts on issues that may impact project performance or customer satisfaction.
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering.
8-10 years of experience in electrical design and project execution.
Proven experience in technical leadership within complex industrial projects.
Strong knowledge of:
- Medium and low voltage systems (MV/LV)
- Transformers
- Protection and control systems
- Electrical system integration
Experience managing international and multidisciplinary teams.
Strong communication and customer-facing skills.
Fluency in English and Spanish.
Conditions
Full-time position with flexible working hours.
Location: Remote from Spain
Travel: 30%
Permanent contract or freelance/project-based collaboration via Progressive.
If you are interested, please do not hesitate to apply!
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