Senior Electrical Building Services Engineer
Join Mott MacDonald as a Senior Electrical Building Services Engineer. Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.
As a Senior 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. You will lead and direct junior staff, be actively involved in the preparation of documents, reports and health and safety risk assessments, and interpret commercial and/or contractual aspects of correspondence with or between fellow professionals on multidisciplinary projects.
Key Responsibilities and Duties
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 managing 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 while proactively coaching and developing 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.
Candidate Specification
Essential
B.Eng / M.Eng.
Chartered Engineer.
Experience leading electrical services and some multidisciplinary projects.
Experience 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.
Experience managing client relationships and expectations; willingness 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
We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. 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.
Agile working
We believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well‑being, flexibility, and trust.
We Offer Some Fantastic Benefits Including
Flexible working.
Pension matched up to 7% of base salary.
Competitive annual leave.
Annual professional institution subscription.
Life insurance.
Income continuance.
Enhanced paternity leave.
Annual company performance bonus scheme – subject to company performance.
Cycle to work scheme.
Travel TaxSaver tickets.
Commitment to Continuing Professional Development – we are accredited by Engineers Ireland.
Mentoring and support for career development and progression.
Location: Dublin, Ireland.
Contract type: Permanent.
Work pattern: Full Time.
Job Ref: 10220.
Recruiter Contact: Will Bates.
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