Principal Electrical Engineer (Building Services)
Location: Edinburgh
Salary: Maximum £80,000 per year + £5,800 car allowance + bonus
Role type: Hybrid, x2 days in‑office
Overview
This opportunity involves working as part of a practice of Building Design professionals delivering engineering design solutions to clients across the UK. The role covers multiple sectors, with expertise from Commercial, Residential, Education or Transportation sectors a benefit. Candidates will be client‑facing and involved in day‑to‑day design and management of projects, developing existing technical skills and expanding digital skills and project management.
Your role
- Ensuring an understanding of project briefs.
- Design and specification of all Electrical Building Services systems – power, earthing, lighting, life safety, telecoms, security, access control, lifts, lightning protection.
- Carrying out detailed calculations using industry standard software tools including Excel, Amtech, Dialux/Relux and in‑house developed tools.
- Preparing technical specifications using NBS.
- Collaborating with BIM team to prepare models and drawings, with a working understanding of Autodesk Revit.
- Representing the client at meetings with clients and contractors.
- Conducting site surveys, inspections and monitoring site works.
- Writing reports and technical notes and maintaining complete records and archives to company standards.
- Adhering to all quality, environmental & governance processes.
- Managing own workload, updating forward plan of workload regularly and working to time allocations.
- Managing elements of project delivery and understanding of budget costings. Reviewing progress, reporting any anomalies and changes of scope to the project lead.
- Assisting with technical development of junior staff.
About you
- Degree qualified, or equivalent qualification, in Building Services Engineering / Electrical Engineering or related subjects.
- Chartered Engineer with CIBSE or IET or working towards Chartership.
- Good level of computer literacy in a range of software tools including Amtech/Predesign, Dialux/Relux, NBS and Microsoft packages. HV tools beneficial.
- Familiar with energy reduction methods and approaches to decarbonising new and existing buildings. Knowledge of energy related contracts and funding mechanisms such as SALIX.
- Understanding of energy and carbon related data capture and analytics. Awareness of building physics principles such as passive design solutions and fabric first approaches.
- Competent in designing for measurement and verification, including experience of commissioning and post‑installation evaluation of performance.
- Experience of working in a design consultancy and/or contractor design environment is essential.
- Detailed knowledge of appropriate technical standards. Able to take charge of project deliverables, make decisions, act on own initiative and operate proactively.
- Good report writing skills, experience of making presentations to and attending meetings with clients is essential.
- Comfortable working within time and cost budgets as agreed at project briefing meetings.
- Undertake any other reasonable tasks or duties as required by the management team from time to time, to maintain flexibility in the organisation.
Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company.
