Senior Electrical Engineer (Data Centre)

AECOM; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

AECOM is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to lead electrical design for data centre projects across the region, delivering the electrical design in collaboration with our building services team. You will own parts of larger projects and guide less experienced engineers under senior supervision.

The role requires a Masters in electrical engineering, CEng or progression toward it, and membership in IET or CIBSE. Willingness to travel internationally and obtain security clearance is essential.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and manage electrical delivery on small to mid-sized projects.
• Provide specialized technical input to studies and design for data centre projects.
• Manage own workload and meet deadlines.
• Present technical solutions to clients and peers.
• Attend design team meetings and site inspections as required.
• Liaise with clients, contractors and design team members.

Skills

Electrical design

Project management

Client liaison

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Travel readiness

Education

Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering

CEng accredited or working towards

IET or CIBSE membership

Tools

ETAP

Relux/Dialux

MS Project

AutoCAD

Revit

Job description

The Data Centre MEP team is comprised of Associates, Principal, Senior, Engineer and graduates located across the UK. We are a close knit, supportive community, nurturing exceptional talent in the building services industry. We work closely alongside our internal and external consultant colleagues in the architectural, civil, structural, PM, QS, environmental, building physics, sustainable design, acoustic, transportation, planning and landscape disciplines designing new data centres (hyperscale and co-locations) at the forefront of technology for our clients across the world. As the Senior Electrical Engineer you will be experienced in data centre design or have exposure to this sector and will understand the basic design principles of electrical services in data centre or industrial facilities. You will undertake the delivery of the electrical designs in conjunction with and in close collaboration with our other building services and wider disciplines. We are seeking a chartered (or working towards chartership) dynamic, flexible Senior Electrical Engineer, with the experience, enthusiasm, confidence and ability to run small projects and take ownership of assigned parts of larger projects, under the guidance of a team of more experienced engineers in the Data Centre team.

What you'll do:

• Co-ordinate and manage the electrical delivery on small to mid-sized projects.
• Provide specialised technical input to studies and design for staff's specific area of expertise.
• Manage own workload and meet deadlines on task assigned.
• A self-starter who can use own initiative and a problem solver.
• Present technical solutions to clients and peers.
• Participate in development of technical proposals.
• Attend design team and coordination meetings where required.
• Attend site inspection meetings where required.
• Liaise with clients, professional organizations, contractors, suppliers, sub-contractors and other design team members.
• Conversant with ETAP, Relux/Dialux, MS project, AutoCAD and Revit software packages.
• Familiar with the relevant regulations, standards and industry good practice requirements, able to produce designs relevant to all stages of RIBA plan of work and possess the skills to undertake site supervision and inspection roles, produce feasibility reports, from which designs can be prepared.
• The ability to apply their own initiative, under guidance and supervision from a Principal engineer and the wider team.
• A full clean driving licence and passport, be willing and able to travel to projects across the region and beyond, on occasion staying over and including internationally.
• Security Clearance will be required to work on some projects so you will need to be able to fulfil the criteria to obtain this.
• Master's degree qualified (or with requisite post qualification experience if degree qualified) in electrical engineering, preferably with a building services bias but not compulsory.
• Member of a professional accreditation body, IET or CIBSE.
• CEng accredited or working towards.

Ready to push the limits of what's possible? Post Graduate experience in a building services design role with particular focus on data centres.

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