Electrical Building Services Engineer in Glasgow

Location: Glasgow or Edinburgh, UK

About the business unit

The Buildings Unit (BLD) has a major presence in Mott MacDonald's regional offices throughout the UK and mainland Europe, providing a wide range of diverse and transferable cross‑sector skills across five key sectors: Advisory, Built Environment, Energy, Transportation and Water. We also provide local services to customers and technical leadership to the rest of the Group in these sectors.

Overview of the role

As an Electrical Building Services Engineer in Mott MacDonald, you will work in world‑class teams to design and deliver cost‑effective, innovative and sustainable solutions on local and international projects in the following sectors:

• Energy
• Aviation (Airports and infrastructure)
• Elite sports
• Commercial
• Ministry of Justice
• Healthcare
• Local Authority
• Rail (Stations)
• Education and Higher Education

You will be responsible for delivering functional design solutions on projects across our built environment sector, ensuring that we create a visually appealing and comfortable environment, using our ingenuity, in both our own disciplines and in integrated thinking.

You will deliver solutions that address the challenge of ever‑increasing social need at a time of decreasing resources as well as the essential need to reduce carbon emissions, and as the digital revolution is applied to the provision of essential services, mechanical, electrical and building services engineering will play a central role in creating the smart infrastructure for our sustainable future.

To deliver on this, you will need to show knowledge in technology, in both design and construction processes, working collaboratively across the Group and with our project partners. The Mott MacDonald community is at the heart of this endeavour, join in and make a difference.

The successful candidate will typically:

• Have responsibility for all aspects of assigned project work
• Be competent in cable, lighting and other calculation software required to design electrical services such as Trimble Pro Design, Relux and/or Dialux as a minimum
• Be competent in AutoCad and Revit both 2D and 3D
• Support and mentor junior members of the team
• Work and liaise with associated engineering disciplines as part of delivering projects
• Offer consultative service to clients and deliver first‑class service
• Able to attend the office a minimum of two days per week, with the MEP team and able to attend additional ad‑hoc days to suit project support and delivery

Candidate specification

Essential:

• Methodical approach to problem solving
• Ability to use your initiative to undertake tasks efficiently and independently
• Excellent verbal communication skills, which allow you to confidently liaise with clients and team members
• Excellent written communication and attention to detail and be able to demonstrate accurate technical drawings and good report writing
• Minimum three years post‑graduate (or equivalent) experience in building services engineering
• Degree qualified or similar apprentice route with relevant experience and working towards chartership
• Experience of working on building services and multi‑disciplinary projects
• Enthusiastic and ambitious with a strong teamwork ethic
• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to manage and prioritise your own workload
• Ability to lead electrical elements of a large project or smaller project

Please be advised that offers for this role are conditional upon obtaining the appropriate level of Security Clearance.

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

Mott MacDonald is committed to promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion, and encouraging individual expression in our workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and encourage applications from all backgrounds.

Accessibility

We provide reasonable adjustments to ensure that candidates with disabilities can participate fully in the recruitment process. If you require support, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com.

Benefits

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4× your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6× 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.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

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. As your career grows, so does your stake, recognising your long‑term impact and contribution. Your voice matters, with the opportunity to connect directly with senior leadership through formal channels to help shape our future. For our senior roles you will have a direct pathway towards ownership from day one.

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 programme, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

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.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high‑street retailers.
• 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.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.

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.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities. Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.