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.
About the Role
The Data Centre MEP team is comprised of Associates, Principal, Senior, Engineer and graduates located across the UK. The team is a close knit, supportive community, nurturing exceptional talent in the building services industry.
You will work closely alongside internal and external consultant colleagues in the architectural, civil, structural, PM, QS, environmental, building physics, sustainable design, acoustic, transportation, planning and landscape disciplines designing new data centres (hyperscale and co-locations) at the forefront of technology for clients across the world.
As the Senior Electrical Engineer you will be experienced in data centre design or have exposure to this sector and will understand the basic design principles of electrical services in data centre or industrial facilities.
You will undertake the delivery of the electrical designs in conjunction with and in close collaboration with other building services and wider disciplines.
Responsibilities
- Co-ordinate and manage the electrical delivery on small to mid-sized projects
- Provide specialised technical input to studies and design for your specific area of expertise
- Manage own workload and meet deadlines on tasks assigned
- Use own initiative and solve problems as a self-starter
- Present technical solutions to clients and peers
- Participate in development of technical proposals
- Attend design team and coordination meetings where required
- Attend site inspection meetings where required
- Liaise with clients, professional organizations, contractors, suppliers, sub-contractors and other design team members
Requirements
- Experience: Post graduate experience in a building services design role with particular focus on data centres
- Software: Conversant with ETAP, Relux/Dialux, MS project, AutoCAD and Revit software packages
- Knowledge: Familiar with the relevant regulations, standards and industry good practice requirements. Able to produce designs relevant to all stages of RIBA plan of work and possess the skills to undertake site supervision and inspection roles, produce feasibility reports from which designs can be prepared
- Qualifications: Master's degree qualified (or with requisite post qualification experience if degree qualified) in electrical engineering, preferably with a building services bias but not compulsory
- Professional accreditation: Member of a professional accreditation body, IET or CIBSE. CEng accredited or working towards
- Personal requirements: A full clean driving licence and passport. Willing and able to travel to projects across the region and beyond, on occasion staying over and including internationally
- Security clearance: Security Clearance will be required to work on some projects so you will need to be able to fulfil the criteria to obtain this
- Attributes: The ability to apply own initiative under guidance and supervision from a Principal engineer and the wider team. Dynamic, flexible, experienced, enthusiastic, confident and able to run small projects and take ownership of assigned parts of larger projects
Work Environment
- Work location model: Hybrid
- Primary location: UK - London - Aldgate Tower
- Flexibility: You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will work in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed
Onboarding
All newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.
Additional Information
AECOM is an Equal Opportunity Employer and believes in each person's potential. AECOM is 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. If you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme, please let us know at [email protected].
AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of employees and their families. You will have access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility as part of a global, publicly traded firm.
About AECOM
AECOM is a global infrastructure professional-services company that delivers planning, design, engineering, environmental, program and construction management services across multiple sectors. The company serves public and private clients throughout the full project lifecycle—from advisory and planning through design, engineering, and construction management—in markets including transportation, water, buildings, energy, cities, and government.
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