Authorising Engineer - Electrical

Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary Finance

Flexible lifestyle benefits

MiDeals discounts

Cycle to work

Life cover

Pension

Job summary

Mitie is seeking an Authorising Engineer (HV/LV) in Peterborough to provide independent technical authority across data centre and critical environment operations throughout the UK. You will oversee safe switching, isolation, maintenance and restoration of HV/LV systems, supporting operational resilience and statutory compliance.

The role requires leading the appointment and ongoing review of Authorised Persons, implementing Mitie's safety procedures, conducting audits and risk reviews, and

Qualifications

• HNC, HND or Degree in Electrical Engineering, Building Services Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Extensive HV/LV operational experience within data centres, critical environments or high-availability infrastructure.
• Previous experience as an Authorising Engineer, Senior Authorised Person or within a similar electrical governance role.

Responsibilities

• Act as the independent technical authority for HV/LV electrical systems, ensuring safe switching, isolation, maintenance and restoration activities across critical environments.
• Lead the assessment, appointment and ongoing review of Authorised Persons (APs), maintaining authorisation records and ensuring competency, training and governance requirements are met.
• Implement and oversee Mitie's Authorisation Procedures, Safe Systems of Work and electrical safety standards, providing technical support and guidance to operational teams.
• Conduct audits, compliance reviews and technical assurance activities, investigating incidents, identifying risks and driving continuous improvement across electrical safety performance.
• Provide expert advice to management on electrical safety, resilience, legislation, industry best practice and resource requirements, ensuring safe and compliant service delivery.

Skills

Electrical safety rules

HV/LV knowledge

Authorising Engineer experience

Regulatory compliance

Education

HNC/HND or Degree in Electrical Engineering or Building Services

Job description

Better places, thriving communities.

Authorising Engineer - Electrical (HV/LV)

Peterborough | Full Time | Static/Travel Required

At Mitie, our people are our greatest strength, and our promise is to create a place to work where you can thrive and be your best every day.

We're looking for an experienced Authorising Engineer (HV/LV) to provide independent technical authority across our data centre and critical environment operations throughout the UK. You'll play a key role in ensuring the safe management of high and low voltage systems, supporting operational resilience, statutory compliance and industry-leading safety standards.

Role Responsibilities

• Act as the independent technical authority for HV/LV electrical systems, ensuring safe switching, isolation, maintenance and restoration activities across critical environments.
• Lead the assessment, appointment and ongoing review of Authorised Persons (APs), maintaining authorisation records and ensuring competency, training and governance requirements are met.
• Implement and oversee Mitie's Authorisation Procedures, Safe Systems of Work and electrical safety standards, providing technical support and guidance to operational teams.
• Conduct audits, compliance reviews and technical assurance activities, investigating incidents, identifying risks and driving continuous improvement across electrical safety performance.
• Provide expert advice to management on electrical safety, resilience, legislation, industry best practice and resource requirements, ensuring safe and compliant service delivery.

Required Qualifications

Applicants must meet the following requirements:

• HNC, HND or Degree in Electrical Engineering, Building Services Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Extensive HV/LV operational experience within data centres, critical environments or high-availability infrastructure.
• Previous experience as an Authorising Engineer, Senior Authorised Person or within a similar electrical governance role.

What We're Looking For

• Strong knowledge of Electricity at Work Regulations, BS 7671, permit-to-work systems and electrical safety rules.
• Experience conducting audits, competency assessments, risk reviews and incident investigations.
• Confidence to challenge unsafe practices and make independent, evidence-based decisions.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage operational teams, clients and senior stakeholders.
• Flexibility to travel throughout the UK to support audits, assurance activities and incident response.

What's In It For You?

• Opportunity to work across some of the UK's most critical and complex facilities.
• Exposure to leading data centre and critical environment operations.
• Professional development and support towards continued professional registration and technical excellence.

There's a place for you at Mitie, join us today!

Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Inder Mann at [e-mail].

Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

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