Senior Electrical Engineer

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We are currently recruiting for a Senior Electrical Engineer to join our expanding Building Services team in Scotland.

Our Scotland MEP team works closely with other multidisciplinary teams with over 600 staff covering Building (MEP, Civil, and Structural) Engineering, Project Management, Quantity Surveying, Transportation, Water, Energy, and environmental consultancy. Our Building Services sector coverage is broad, including Defence, Healthcare, Education, Science, Industrial, and Client Advisory.

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

• 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.

And let’s not forget about the perks ’ll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well‑being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work‑life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

You will be exposed to and grow from the diverse range of projects and multi‑disciplinary approach that AECOM can offer and will have opportunity to work across a larger AECOM team, often with national and international projects.

• To have a passion and have a drive for helping clients solve their building services challenges.
• Be a team player, ready to engage across disciplines and work together.
• Have good communication skills.
• Experience in Building Services design, including developing detailed design drawings and calculations, specification writing, and compiling technical schedules.
• A track record of having worked on Building Services designs across a number of sectors, for example, Education, Science, Healthcare, etc.
• Experience of seeing conceptual designs through to completion and dealing directly with clients.
• A track record of having delivered low‑energy, sustainable designs.
• Experience in working knowledge of REVIT / CAD is preferred.

• Ideally, a relevant mechanical, electrical, or building services degree, or a relevant discipline and sufficient industry experience to allow Chartered progression.
• Chartered or with qualifications to become chartered.
• Any Nuclear or equivalent experience in nuclear/marine systems would be beneficial but not essential.

• Due to the nature of the work undertaken successful applicants will need to have active UK SC Clearance or the ability to gain UK SC clearance, and ideally have single UK nationality.

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