Senior Electrical Engineer

Overview

Senior M&E Consultant –
Rider Levett Bucknall RLB

Description – Application details:
Final date to receive applications: 27 October 2025;
Department: Built Asset Consultancy;
Location: Bristol or Cardiff (hybrid working).

Role –
Senior M&E Consultant
Discipline: Electrical Engineering
Sector: Built Asset Consultancy

Location – Bristol or Cardiff (With Hybrid Working)

At RLB, we live by four simple ideas:
Truth, Trust, Together, Tomorrow. A place where People Make Progress. We value your skills, talents and unique perspectives – we think they are priceless. You’ll be empowered to shape our future and your career in new and meaningful ways. We’ll give you opportunities to work on some of the most ambitious projects in the built environment sector. We offer tailored training, mentoring schemes, and a culture that values teamwork, flexibility, and wellbeing.

Hybrid and flexible working arrangements and family-friendly policies are part of how we invest in employees.

Join us to thrive personally as well as professionally.

We are recruiting a Senior Electrical Consultant Engineer to join our West & Wales Built Asset Consultancy service. The role involves working across sectors such as public, environmental, commercial, and education. You should be proactive in surveying Electrical building infrastructure, able to design from RIBA Stage 0-4, and provide technical advice during the construction stage. The successful candidate will support the in-region M&E service development to align with the business plan.

• Undertake project feasibility studies
• Detailed technical design of Electrical Services
• Produce technical drawings
• Produce full electrical tender packages
• Monitor Electrical works on site and report on conformity and quality
• Undertake Electrical condition surveys
• Undertake pre-acquisition, dilapidation, PPM surveys
• Act as technical advisor to clients and support contractor designs
• Ensure compliance with processes, procedures and commercial strategies
• Adhere to Environmental, Health, Safety, Security and Quality Standards
• Collaborate with internal project teams
• Develop Commercial Strategies

The ideal candidate will deliver customer service excellence with a proactive approach and strong commercial awareness. Attributes include:

• Excellent communication and presentation skills (written and verbal)
• Strong client/external interface skills
• Ability to monitor Electrical works on site
• Proficiency in AutoCAD
• Well organized, diligent, proactive, and commercially astute
• Committed to developing the in-region M&E service offering
• Full UK driving licence
• Willing to travel; majority of work in Southwest and South Wales

• BSc Electrical Engineering (minimum)
• Recognised M&E qualification
• Chartered or willing to obtain MCIBSE (or equivalent)

• Track record in a similar role or site engineering
• High level of independent Electrical design experience from RIBA 0-4
• Asset surveying, age/remaining life estimation
• Technical due diligence work
• Experience using tablets and related technology
• Experience with CAD, Bluebeam, Microsoft Office
• REVIT experience beneficial but not essential

• Client-focused, collaborative team player who shares knowledge and supports others
• Positive, proactive approach with customer service excellence and commercial focus
• Long-term commitment to the growth of the in-region M&E team

Benefits include hybrid working, competitive salary, generous holiday entitlement, health and wellbeing options, private healthcare, development programmes (APC and mentoring), professional memberships, season ticket loan, and opportunities to work on diverse projects. We also support social responsibility through team events, fundraising, and volunteering.

We are committed to a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can contribute and grow. We strive to overcome bias in the construction industry by recruiting, retaining, developing, and promoting a diverse workforce. Find out more about Diversity & Inclusion - RLB | Europe.

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