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”