Job Title
Associate Director - Electrical Engineering
Job Description Summary

Job Description

Associate Electrical Engineer

Department: Project & Development Services

Partner, Building Engineering Services

Location: National role

Role Purpose

• Deliver high-quality electrical engineering consultancy services across all property sectors, with a focus on occupier and investor clients.
• Lead electrical technical due diligence, dilapidations, audits and reporting instructions.
• Design, manage and supervise electrical projects, coordinating with wider disciplines.
• Prepare specifications, drawings, reports and cost estimates aligned to programme.
• Achieve agreed revenue and profit targets.

Key Responsibilities

Clients & Business Development

• Develop and grow a client portfolio within electrical engineering services.
• Maintain strategic relationships internally and externally to generate new business.
• Act as client lead on allocated instructions.
• Deliver electrical surveys, due diligence and dilapidations, ensuring consistent reporting and accurate lease interpretation.
• Contribute to tenders, pitches and fee proposals.
• Ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.
• Identify cross-selling opportunities and strengthen integrated service delivery.

Commercial & Financial

• Contribute to annual fee forecasting and pipeline management.
• Maintain commercially viable fee structures.
• Support billing, debtor management and profitability controls.

Operations & Risk

• Ensure compliance with firm procedures, QA standards and CDM regulations.
• Manage technical and commercial risk.
• Maintain accurate time recording and support audit requirements.

People & Leadership

• Mentor and develop junior engineers.
• Lead project teams and coordinate resource allocation.
• Maintain CPD and support recruitment and L&D initiatives.

Electrical Specialism

• Define scope and deliverables for each instruction aligned to fee.
• Undertake electrical due diligence (vendor, acquisition, occupier), assessing condition and compliance and providing costed gap analysis (BCO, ESG, Net Zero standards).
• Deliver electrical dilapidations advice and support negotiations.
• Oversee third-party consultants and contract staff.
• Implement QA systems and support ISO9001 and ISO14001 compliance.

Experience & Capability

• Proven experience delivering electrical engineering projects from concept through to completion.
• Strong knowledge of electrical compliance and building services standards.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary design teams and managing budgets.
• Ability to prepare scopes, cost plans and technical reports.

Person Specification

• Chartered Engineer (CEng) and member of IET, CIBSE (Electrical) or similar.
• Degree/HND/HNC in Electrical Engineering.
• Strong commercial awareness and client-facing experience.
• Excellent communication and report writing skills.
• Proven project and team management capability.
• Highly organised with strong attention to detail.

INCO: "Cushman & Wakefield"