Senior Electrical Engineer (Data Centre)

AECOM Corporation; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

AECOM Limited is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer for Data Centre projects in the UK. The role is within the Data Centre MEP team, supporting electrical design delivery and working across disciplines to meet project objectives.

The candidate should have post-graduate experience in data centre design, be chartered or working towards, and willing to travel internationally. Hybrid work options are available, with a focus on delivering high-quality, compliant designs.

Qualifications

• Post Graduate experience in building services design with focus on data centres.
• Familiar with ETAP, Relux/Dialux, MS Project, AutoCAD and Revit software.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and manage electrical delivery on small to mid-sized projects.
• Provide technical input to studies and design for building services.
• Manage own workload and meet deadlines for assigned tasks.
• Show initiative and problem-solve; operate with minimal supervision.
• Present technical solutions to clients and peers; contribute to proposals.
• Attend design team and coordination meetings; attend site inspection meetings where required.
• Liaise with clients, consultants, contractors and other design team members.

Skills

ETAP

Relux/Dialux

MS Project

AutoCAD

Revit

Education

Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering (building services bias)

Job description

Senior Electrical Engineer (Data Centre)

• Full-time
• State/Province: London, City of
• Business Group: DCS
• Legal Entity: AECOM Limited
• Business Line: B&P - Buildings & Places
• Work Location Model: Hybrid
• Operating Group: International
• Primary Location: UK - London - Aldgate Tower

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At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of 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 and tangible impact around the world.

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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.

Here’s 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.

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for

• Post Graduate experience in a building services design role with particular focus on data centres.
• 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.

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About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options.Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

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