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• Senior/Principal Electrical Engineer – Operational Assets

  Greater Manchester - Manchester

  to £50,000 per annum + benefits

  Permanent

  Client: The client is a human-centric and planet-conscious engineering consultancy, delivering intelligent and sustainable solutions to complex design challenges across the built environment, throughout the UK and internationally. They provide a comprehensive range of engineering and consultancy services, including acoustics, air quality, building services (MEP), fire, lighting, security, and sustainability. Their highly skilled teams combine technical excellence with problem-solving expertise to bring buildings to life, ensuring exceptional design quality and operational performance that meets the needs of the communities they serve. The client is committed to fostering an inclusive, supportive environment where individuals can realise their full potential. Employees benefit from a culture that promotes wellbeing, professional development, and individuality. Their benefits package includes a 9-day fortnight scheme, thriving community groups, varied social and networking events, structured professional and technical development programmes, private medical cover, an electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme, stock options, and up to 30 days of annual leave. Their ambition is to empower everyone to develop their knowledge, perform at their best, and enjoy meaningful and rewarding careers. Role: The client has an exciting opportunity for a Senior/Principal Electrical Engineer to join their Operational Assets team, based in their Manchester office. This role is ideally suited to individuals who are passionate about existing buildings, enjoy developing innovative and pragmatic solutions to complex operational challenges, and are motivated by using real-time building data to help drive progress towards net-zero outcomes. The newly established Operational Assets team brings together property consultants, design engineers, and data-led building performance specialists to deliver a holistic service offering across the full building lifecycle. The team works closely with clients to embed themselves within asset portfolios, developing sustainable roadmaps and supporting projects from concept through implementation and ongoing operation. With a strong track record across the Residential, Commercial, and Healthcare sectors, the team continues to expand to meet growing market demand. This collaborative, highly skilled group delivers technically robust and commercially valuable outcomes for clients. Responsibilities: In this key and varied role, the successful candidate will:

  • Secure new projects and support both existing and new clients, assisting the regional lead with delivery planning and team strategy.
  • Lead work delivery, organisational support, and team growth to support regional and local client requirements.
  • Demonstrate strong leadership, providing guidance, mentorship, and technical supervision to colleagues.
  • Collaborate closely with other teams and discipline leads to ensure efficient project delivery and workload planning.
  • Recruit, train, and develop team members, supporting long-term succession planning and professional growth.
  • Undertake detailed design, technical specification, and site monitoring activities.
  • Monitor commissioning processes and deliver post-occupancy engineering services.
  • Prepare technical documentation including feasibility studies, condition surveys, and investigative reports.
  • Liaise directly with clients, demonstrating strong commercial awareness and project management skills.

  The role involves leading small to medium-sized projects, typically valued up to several million pounds, and providing technical support to asset owners, landlords, managing agents, project managers, and end users. The project portfolio is primarily UK-based, with occasional international opportunities. Operational Assets – Core Service Areas: The team operates across three primary service streams:

  1. Decarbonisation, Performance Improvement & Energy Reduction - Delivering energy efficiency, building performance enhancement, and net-zero strategies through pragmatic engineering solutions and emerging technologies, from strategic planning to implementation
  2. Design - Specialising in complex existing buildings across all RIBA stages, delivering creative and sustainable design solutions that modernise and enhance building services systems to meet current standards and operational demands
  3. Property Consultancy - Providing technical advisory services to support property management, asset operation, and transactional processes, including:

  • Technical due diligence (vendor and pre-acquisition)
  • Dilapidations surveys
  • Planned preventative maintenance reporting
  • Licences to Alter
  • Maintenance inspections
  • Validation management
  • Asset registers
  • Troubleshooting
  • Energy optimisation surveys
  • EPC assessments

  Projects span a diverse range of sectors including Commercial Offices, Retail, Residential, Education, Healthcare, Justice, Defence, Heritage, Industrial, and Technology. Requirements: To succeed in this role, candidates will ideally demonstrate:

  • Chartered status or progress towards chartership as a qualified design engineer.
  • Strong experience working on refurbishment and fit-out projects within existing buildings.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Strong knowledge of building data analytics and metering systems.
  • Proven experience in performance specification, detailed design, contract administration, and site supervision.
  • Broad knowledge of building services engineering, with strong expertise in a primary discipline and sound understanding of secondary disciplines.
  • Solid working knowledge of UK and relevant EU regulations, standards, and design guidance.
  • Strong organisational, planning, and time-management skills.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to influence, collaborate, and build long-term client relationships.
  • Demonstrable experience in work-winning and team leadership.

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• Senior/Associate Electrical Engineer

  London - City, EC2

  to £80,000 per annum + benefits

  Permanent

  The Company & Role: This Canadian-born business founded in 1978 has grown to become a global commercial real estate advisory firm employing 5000 people in 120 locations across 20 countries.  This opportunity is for a Senior / Associate level Electrical engineer to join an exciting and successful Building Consultancy team, based in London. You will work on a variety of professional and project work for investors, lenders, occupiers, developers, and the public sector. Their broad client mix offer opportunities for travel around the UK and Europe with exposure to a diverse range of property types. The Mechanical, Electrical & Public Health (MEP) engineering team offer traditional MEP design and consultancy services alongside surveying and project management activities with sustainable solutions at the core of their work. Their expertise ranges across all sectors including office, industrial, retail, education, government, healthcare, aviation, and residential. As part of their succession plan, they are looking for an electrically biased building services engineer who will support the building surveyors in providing building engineering consultancy services that augments and compliments the building surveying and Project Management activities. This is a great opportunity for someone with a background in MEP consulting or design and contracting who is looking to move into a corporate real estate environment. Flexible working arrangements from home and office is available but the applicant must be able and willing to travel to undertake site inspections as part of the role.   Duties & Responsibilities: Design:

  • Be familiar with RIBA Work plan stages, BSRIA BG6(2018) and deliverables required.
  • Understand the requirements and differences between performance design and detail design.
  • Agree briefs with clients to anticipate and identify needs and expectations and develop the job/project brief in conjunction with the team.
  • Prepare and assist in producing feasibility study reports.
  • Work with client and design team to assemble a design specification compliant with the Employer’s requirements, agree its format and content, and ensure delivery by the due date.
  • Agree and monitor scope of works and communicate any changes to the team.
  • Produce calculations for engineering systems as required and ensure proper QA, technical reviews and sign-off are carried out and recorded.
  • Establish the design concepts with the team and determine/agree the programme for the design process.
  • Hold an appreciation of sustainability, net zero carbon and building energy performance issues and ensure that these are taken fully into account in the initial assessment of the job/project and incorporate requirements into job/project delivery.
  • Liaise with the design team and agree the appropriate programme for issuing information to external associated parties.
  • Ensure the team delivers the requisite information to assist with the preparation of the project budget and agree the budget with the team.
  • Carry out periodic review and identify risks affecting overall delivery.
  • Co-ordinate and attend pre-qualification interviews.
  • Review tender documentation and authorise tender issues, review tenders received and advise client on appointment of contractor and liaise between disciplines on multi-functional tenders.
  • Report to the client any variance between the works constructed and the design intent.
  • Ensure appropriate level of site supervision and carry out periodic reviews of construction activity.
  • Ensure relevant schedules of testing/commissioning and snagging are prepared and carried out by suitably qualified personnel and ensure that performance is in line with project guidelines and client requirements.
  • Identify the need for building and site surveys and their relevance to the project and ensure that they are implemented in time to meet the requirements of the project.
  • Manage and monitor site and buildings appraisals and carry out inspections where necessary.
  • Ensure the availability of specialist resource for Computer Aided Design.
  • Follow in full the document control, archiving, CDM and QA processes relevant to job/project work, ensuring reports, correspondence, specifications, drawings, and schedules are issued, and filed in an appropriate manner.
  • Identify client needs and expectations, ensuring they are exceeded.

  Surveying, Dilapidations and Advisory:

  • Carry out/assist with technical due diligence surveys and reports.
  • Be familiar with mechanical, electrical, and public health installations and trends and current code/regulatory requirements.
  • Possess and display a good level of written communication skills with an ability to convey engineering systems clearly and concisely in report format and to a lay person.
  • Prepare feasibility study reports.
  • Hold an appreciation of sustainability, net zero carbon and building energy performance issues and ensure that these are taken fully into account in the initial assessment of the job/project and incorporate requirements into job/project delivery.
  • Understand dilapidation assessments (not essential but preferable)

  Business and Team Functions:

  • Attend and contribute to staff meetings.
  • Deliver jobs/projects to time and budget and evaluate jobs/projects to identify learning for the future.
  • Input to company job/project and resource management processes.
  • Promptly complete and submit timesheets.

    Knowledge, Skills, and Experience: The role is to contribute and assist jobs/projects and deliver excellent service to our clients. The applicant will have obtained, or be working towards, Chartered Engineer status and hold the professional qualifications with bodies such as CIBSE, IET or IMechE (however applicants with proven design experience in the industry may be considered) and can demonstrate experience in the industry for a minimum of 5 years, with a proven ability to work within a team completing engineering reports, detailed design, and site inspections. The applicant is expected to be comfortable with working in a multi-disciplinary Chartered Surveyor/Project Management environment and shall have excellent technical skills allied with the applicant’s relevant experience. The role will require the applicant to be familiar with a range of building services installations and be comfortable surveying and reporting on the general condition and potential remedial works required as part of our due diligence service to our clients. Prior experience in carrying out technical due diligence is not essential but preferable. The applicant will be able to work alone and as part of a team and be able to communicate with clients to provide professional advice in plain English, founded on their wide range of experience in the commercial, retail, healthcare, residential, and leisure sectors. Key attributes will include:

  • Client focus
  • Personal drive coupled with the ability to develop others
  • Leadership
  • Teamwork
  • Communication
  • Enthusiasm and passion for technical quality, learning and knowledge sharing
  • Willingness to help and support individuals
  • Capable of driving best practice and encouraging a culture of knowledge sharing and learning
  • Assertive, both in driving the initiative and harnessing support within the team
  • Promote client care and client facing culture

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• Electrical Engineer

  West Midlands - Birmingham

  to £55,000 per annum + benefits

  Permanent

  Overview: International, independent, multi-disciplinary consultancy delivering engineering, sustainability and design excellence across the built environment. With a strong global presence spanning the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific and Australia, they work with some of the world’s leading architects, developers and asset owners to create buildings and infrastructure that are innovative, resilient and future-ready. This client is an award-winning global consultancy that has been named Building’s Engineering Consultant of the Year in 2024, 2022 and 2021. They are at the forefront of the industry, priding themselves on an exemplary track record of designing innovative and sustainable projects. Sustainability runs through everything they do, and their people are empowered to drive change and decarbonise the built environment. By the end of this decade, they have set an ambitious goal to only work on projects that meet their zero carbon design criteria, a commitment they have called their Zero Carbon Design 2030 goal. They need engineers who share this passion for sustainability and thrive in designing energy efficient buildings and communities. Their Building Services team are a source of world leading expertise and offer a pro-active and collaborative approach to skill development, and professional excellence. The Role: This is an excellent opportunity for skilled electrical engineer to join their team in Birmingham and play a key role in ensuring the successful delivery of innovative electrical design solutions for some of the most exciting building projects in the UK and internationally. Working across a variety of sectors including Government, Critical Systems, Healthcare, Workplace and Residential, you will work in a team of expert engineers and technicians and work closely with colleagues of various disciplines to help manage the delivery of technically-excellent, profitable projects for high profile public and private clients. You’ll have the opportunity over time to assume greater levels of responsibility and autonomy as your professional skills develop and with accredited professional development programmes from CIBSE and IET, you’ll be fully supported towards achieving chartership. You will be working in a team that work collaboratively, have a high-performance culture and believe that each member is vital to the team, office and business. Working with the team leaders areas of development will be agreed targeted, providing exposure to facets of engineering that will help you develop your skill set. Qualifications: Educated to degree level in Electrical or Building Services Engineering (MEng or BEng or equivalent), and having gained relevant experience within a consultancy environment (design and coordination of electrical distribution and power generation, lighting, security systems etc), you should be well versed in the use of relevant design software including ProDesign (Amtech) and ideally, Revit and Dialux. You have proven ability in producing low energy design solutions, carrying out site inspections and surveys, detail design development, and crucially – you have a passion for creative and intuitive design. Given the collaborative and client focused nature of this role, excellent communication skills and experience of using your initiative to overcome challenges are essential. A professional that has a collaborative outlook, helping themselves and team to deliver.

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