Electrical Engineer

  • Full-time
  • State/Province: Leeds
  • Business Group: DCS
  • Legal Entity: AECOM Limited
  • Business Line: B&P - Buildings & Places
  • Work Location Model: Hybrid
  • Operating Group: International
  • Primary Location: UK - Leeds

Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World.

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

Start here. Grow here.  

Our MEP team is looking for an Electrical Engineer to join our growing team.

You’ll be part of a collaborative, multidisciplinary business with over 600 staff across Building Engineering (MEP, Civil and Structural), Project Management, Quantity Surveying, Transportation, Water, Energy, and Environmental Consultancy.

Our Building Services work spans a wide range of sectors, including Defence, Healthcare, Education, Science, Industrial, Commercial, and Client Advisory, across the UK and abroad.

What you’ll do.

  • Produce Electrical building services engineering designs from concept design through to construction issue and site supervision
  • Execute projects within defined design, programme and cost parameters
  • Carrying out designs on a variety of buildings within different sectors i.e. schools, healthcare, offices, leisure facilities, Government buildings, industrial etc
  • Prepare technical specifications, reports and drawings.
  • Represent AECOM at meetings with clients and contractors.
  • Site surveys and inspections where appropriate.
  • Promote and incorporate sustainable design wherever possible.
  • Conduct design quality reviews/audits as required.
  • Maintaining records and archives to company standards
  • Assist with processes for the development of staff in order to enhance the standards, expertise and reputation of AECOM.
  • Promote and improve inter-discipline working with other disciplines such as Architecture, Building Surveying, Civil and Structural.
  • Monitor emerging legislation and engineering standards relating to electrical building services and ensure their implementation.
  • Input to the design change control process and estimate cost and /or time implications where so delegated.
  • Cooperate with quality, safety and environmental objectives and contribute to the commitment for continual improvement.
  • Assist in the production of fee estimates and bids.

Come grow with us:

And let's not forget about the perks at AECOM. You'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customized to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? 

Requirements:

  • Electrical Building Services degree qualified with CEng (or working towards)
  • Similar experience working in a design consultancy, with experience of concept, scheme and detail design across a range of sectors.
  • An understanding of Revit and BIM is beneficial
  • A good understanding of quality assurance, safety and environmental sustainability
  • Able to make decisions, act on own initiative and operate in a pro-active way
  • A degree of financial awareness and the ability to develop this skill further is required
  • Excellent report writing skills, experience of making presentations and attending meetings with clients is essential.
  • Organise and prioritise their own time and tasks to enable the simultaneous running of several projects

Additional Information

At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives. If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!

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About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [email protected]  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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