Senior Electrical Building Services Engineer

Location

Dublin, IE

Recruiter contact

Will Bates

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.

About The Team

The MEP Team in Ireland collaborates on a wide variety of projects in the Built Environment, Transport, Water and Advisory sectors across our three offices, in Belfast, Dublin and Cork. There are also close links with our sister offices all over the UK.

Overview Of The Role

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 contractual aspects of correspondence with multidisciplinary projects.

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Managing the delivery of assigned electrical elements of multidisciplinary projects across sectors including Built Environment, Water, Transport and Advisory.
• Working and liaising with associated engineering disciplines as part of delivering projects.
• Dealing with management of internal and external stakeholders.
• Carrying out design and calculation work using industry software such as Amtech, IES, Relux, Revit, etc.
• Demonstrating technical expertise, providing in‑depth knowledge whilst 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 and 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 MCCs (motor control centres) including wiring schematics, SLDs.
• 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 coordination in buildings and for underground services.

Candidate Specification – Essential

• B.Eng/ M.Eng.
• Chartered Engineer.
• Experience leading electrical services and 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.
• Some experience managing client relationships and expectations; will 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 support to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at [email protected] and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Benefits

• Flexible working
• Pension matched up to 7% of base salary
• Competitive annual leave
• An 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