Senior Electrical Engineer

AECOM; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A global infrastructure consulting firm is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer in Edinburgh. The role involves leading projects and ensuring design quality across various sectors, including healthcare and education. Candidates should have a degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent and ideally be on track for chartered status. The position offers a flexible hybrid working model and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Flexible hybrid working model

Technical practice networks

Volunteering days

Qualifications

• Proven design experience in Building Services.
• Mechanical engineering/building services degree preferred.
• Chartered or working towards chartered status.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support mid-to-large projects from concept to handover.
• Manage mechanical design delivery from concept through to completion.
• Prepare specifications, schedules, drawings, and other contract documents.

Job description

Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World.

At AECOM, we deliver a better world through infrastructure consulting. We partner with clients to solve complex challenges and build legacies for future generations. We are a global team of professionals delivering projects across transportation, buildings, water, energy, and the environment.

Join a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers, and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive impact around the world.

Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

We are recruiting for a Senior Electrical Engineer to join our expanding Building Services team in Scotland. Our Scotland MEP team works with multidisciplinary teams and covers Building (MEP, Civil, Structural) Engineering, Project Management, Quantity Surveying, Transportation, Water, Energy, and environmental consultancy. Our Building Services sector includes Defence, Healthcare, Education, Science, Industrial, and Client Advisory.

What you’ll do

The Senior Electrical Engineer will lead and support mid-to-large projects from concept to handover. The successful candidate will have proven design experience and will deliver on quality, time, and budget. The role suits someone with a mechanical engineering/building services degree who is enthusiastic, self-motivated, and looking to advance their career. Ideally, the candidate will be chartered or working towards chartered status.

Responsibilities

• Prepare specifications, schedules, drawings, and other contract documents through the RIBA/project stages.
• Manage the mechanical design delivery of projects from concept through to completion.
• Attend project and Client meetings on behalf of AECOM.
• Prepare planning, design, and feasibility reports.
• Ensure that project work complies with the Project Management Plan and Programme.

Come grow with us

Explore the perks at AECOM, including career development opportunities, a flexible hybrid working model, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days. You will be exposed to a diverse range of projects and the opportunity to work across a larger AECOM team, often on national and international projects.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Requirements:

• Passion and drive for helping clients solve building services challenges.
• Team player, able to engage across disciplines and work together.
• Good communication skills.
• Experience in Building Services design, including developing detailed design drawings and calculations, specification writing, and compiling technical schedules.
• Experience on Building Services designs across sectors such as Education, Science, Healthcare, etc.
• Experience from concept through to completion and direct client engagement.
• Track record of delivering low-energy, sustainable designs.
• Experience with REVIT / CAD is preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ideally a relevant mechanical, electrical, or building services degree or equivalent discipline with Chartered progression.
• Chartered or eligible for chartered status.
• Any Nuclear or equivalent experience in nuclear/marine systems would be beneficial but not essential.

Important Details

• Due to the nature of the work, active UK SC Clearance or the ability to gain UK SC clearance is required, and ideally single UK nationality.

Additional Information

At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives. If you meet some of the requirements or have transferable skills, we would be delighted to hear from you.

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About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services across the project lifecycle. Our teams solve complex challenges with a culture of equity, diversity, and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity: we offer hybrid work options and a dynamic environment where integrity, entrepreneurial spirit, and pioneering mindset are championed. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Disability Confident Employer. Reasonable accommodations are available on request.

All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

ReqID: J10136644

Business Line: B&P - Buildings & Places

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India

Career Area: Engineering

Work Location Model: Hybrid