Location of Role: Chelmsford
Advert Closing Date: 29/10/2025
Starting Salary: £51,291.00 (pro‑rate for part‑time vacancies)
Part/Full Time: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Pattern: Mon‑Fri with occasional evening/weekends
Weekend/Evening Working: No
Essex Police Estate Services Department is seeking to recruit an Electrical Design Engineer to join a skilled and enthusiastic department. This is an exciting time to join the team, as we embark on an ambitious programme of new build and refurbishment projects across the force. As well as managing routine electrical maintenance works and associated contractors, you will be part of the wider, multi‑disciplinary Design and Engineering team, providing technical assurance and design input throughout all the RIBA stages of work.
The team manages all aspects of property related matters from small repairs to multi‑million‑pound projects and the successful applicant will be expected to partake in both ends of the scale at the dictates of department demand. The team is currently implementing a significant estate transformation programme aimed at modernising the estate to provide an environment fit for policing now and in the future.
Responsibilities
* Interpret Design Guides and employers’ requirements and compile into appropriate briefing material for delivery partners and subcontractors to use during procurement, design and construction phases of projects.
* Undertake technical assurance/due diligence of building systems designs at key project stages, e.g. RIBA stages.
* Be experienced in delivering projects, with ideally a background working for an engineering consultancy or client organisation and as part of a team.
* Advise on work package lifecycle costs as part of design management.
* Hands‑on, highly skilled, adaptive, and client focused.
* Have professional credibility, self‑motivation, be proactive, and provide communicative knowledge sharing.
* Develop project‑specific employer requirements for projects.
* Be experienced dealing with customers on the receiving end of electrical engineering projects.
* Be proficient in liaising closely with other professionals, including structural engineers, architects, surveyors, and contractors of in‑house and external project teams.
Qualifications
* Professional qualification such as IEng or CEng or demonstrable equivalent industry experience is essential.
* Minimum of four years’ post‑qualification experience in Electrical design and/or building services engineering position, within a large‑scale organisation.
* Demonstrable experience of working with electrical systems with a sound technical knowledge.
* Proven experience of managing contractors covering a variety of systems.
* Ability to identify operational improvements and cost/plan those works following the public sector financial guidelines and procurement routes.
* Overseeing and supervising the installation of building systems and specifying maintenance and operating procedures at various levels within the sphere of electrical installations.
* Ensuring the design and maintenance of electrical building systems meets legislative and health and safety requirements.
* Leading a team to deliver detailed electrical design projects.
* Demonstrate strong engineering experience working on design software eg Amtech, and/ or Dialux. Proficient in producing all types of 2D building design & technical drawings using AutoCAD and office software products.
* Ability to manage projects from inception through design and construction, up to and including final account varying in values from minor works £5K up to £5M with evidence of effective problem solving.
* A good understanding of financial procedures, contract management, surveying skills and project stages.
Equal Opportunities
Kent Police and Essex Police welcomes applications regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, sex, or employment status.
Disability Confident Leader
* have subjected our Disability Confident self‑assessment to external challenge and validation
* are taking an active leadership role in encouraging and helping other employers on their journey to becoming Disability Confident
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion
Through the dedicated commitment of our support networks, DE&I team and wider HR departments, we are on a journey to embed our DE&I commitments, ensuring Essex Police is an employer of choice; where everyone feels included.
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