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”