Principal Electrical Building Services Engineer in Belfast

Location: Belfast, UK

Overview of the role:

As Principal Electrical Engineer, your role will include assessing and understanding project requirements, undertaking electrical design across a number of disciplines and agreeing timescales and specifications with design teams, clients and managers. Leading and directing junior staff, you will be actively involved in the preparation of documents, reports and health and safety risk assessments as well as interpreting commercial and/or contractual aspects of correspondence with or between fellow professionals on multidisciplinary projects.

Key responsibilities and duties include:

• Managing the delivery of assigned Electrical elements of multi-disciplinary projects across a range of sectors including Built Environment, Water, Transportation and Advisory.
• Working and liaising with associated engineering disciplines as part of delivering projects.
• Dealing with and management of internal and external stakeholders.
• Carrying out design and calculation work using relevant industry software (e.g. Amtech, IES, Relux, Revit etc).
• Demonstrating technical expertise, providing in depth knowledge whilst proactively coaching and developing more junior team members.
• Developing, maintaining and monitoring programmes for scheduling and reporting on deliverables across specific projects.
• Maximising profitability of projects, monitoring against budget, reacting and anticipating potential problems and communicating in line with client expectations.

Areas of expertise should include:

• Electrical building services design with experience in a number of the following areas: Health care, Education, Industrial/pharma, Water/Wastewater, Food Processing, Transportation, Data Centres.
• Lighting and Emergency Lighting for buildings (Commercial and Industrial).
• Familiar with electrical and lighting design packages including Trimble (Amtech), Relux, Dialux.
• External Lighting, including roads/highways.
• General Power and Services, including Fire Detection and Alarm, CCTV, Access Control, Power and Data.
• MV (Medium Voltage) switchgear and transformers.
• LV (Low Voltage) Distribution and MCC’s (Motor Control Centres) including wiring schematics, SLD’s.
• Transformers at 20kV/10kV to 400V 3 phase and single phase systems.
• BMS (Building Management Systems) and SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems.
• Instrumentation, Control and Automation systems.
• BIM, AutoCAD and Revit.
• Site experience an advantage.
• Services co-ordination in buildings and for underground services.

Qualifications:

• B.Eng /M.Eng Chartered Engineer.
• Experience of leading on Electrical services and some multi-disciplinary projects.
• Experience of mentoring and leading graduate engineers.
• Enthusiastic and ambitious.
• Excellent communication skills, including report writing and presentation.
• Ability to lead electrical elements of one large project or a portfolio of smaller projects.
• Some experience of managing client relationships and expectations as there will be a requirement to attend Client Facing meetings via Teams.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion:

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility:

If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Benefits:

• Financial wellbeing: We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%. Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary. Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury. Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• Employee Ownership: Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success. Our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, giving them a direct connection to our success through our personal and group performance bonuses.
• Health and wellbeing: Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues. Health cash plan to support you with everyday health costs and treatments. Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues. A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Lifestyle: A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme. Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Enhanced family and carers leave: Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave. Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Learning and development: Primary annual professional institution subscription. A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.