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