Senior Electrical Building Services Engineer

**Salary**: £45,000 to £55,000 per year, dependant on experience

**Location**: Cumbria - Kendall or Cockermouth Office

**Contract**: Permanent, Full-Time

**Benefits**:25 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays, company pension and other benefits.

Due to our continued steady expansion, we now have the opportunity for a Senior Electrical Building Services Engineer to bring their experience, professionalism and enthusiasm to the Building Services team at Align Property Services based in Cumbria.

If successful, you will join our team working to deliver on Schools and Corporate Maintenance programmes across the local authorities in Cumbria, ensuring the buildings where our children are educated and where local people work are safe, modern, and efficient. You will have the opportunity to support Cumbrian capital works programmes, developing and modernising communities across the county.

**“Align your career success with delivering our ambitious growth plans”**

**Align Property Services, who are we?**

We are an award-winning building design consultancy and are proud to be recently named the Regional Energy Consultancy and Regional New Build Project of the year for our recent work with Darlington Borough Council at the North East Energy Efficiency Awards.

Align Property Services is a Limited Company, wholly owned by North Yorkshire Council and we are one of the largest multi-discipline building design consultancies in the North of England. We are collaborative in the way we work, offering a broad range of services in Architecture, Sustainability, Building Surveying, Project Management, Civil & Structural, Transport Planning, Bridges, Highways & Drainage Engineering, Mechanical & Electrical Engineering, Quantity Surveying, CD, Property Advisory & Estate Management.

We are dynamic and diverse in our approach to projects, from valuing small gardens to multi-million-pound listed structures including schools, fire stations, care homes and other public and commercial buildings across the UK. 2024 is proving to be one of our busiest years yet, with the development of exciting new projects with North Yorkshire Council and other public and private sector clients and is an exciting time to join us as we continue to evolve.

**As a Senior Electrical Engineer**

You will be responsible for providing a variety of services including those relating to building pathology, design, project management, building surveys and contract administration as well as producing early design advice through to detailed electrical services design.

Your previous experience in Electrical Services Engineering will have given you the ability to manage a busy and varied project workload, appreciate complex situations and communicate clearly when working closely with other disciplines to deliver engineering solutions to meet client’s budgets and programmes.

You will be able to advise on Health and Safety issues, fire safety and sustainability throughout the design and construction period of projects, considering the Construction Design and Management Regulations. As someone who is proactive, you will look for new challenges and be committed to maintaining an annual programme of Continuing Professional Development (CPD).

**To be successful in this position, you will**:

- Hold a degree or HNC in Building Services/Electrical Engineering and ideally working towards MCIBSE.
- Experience in the preparation of electrical surveys and condition survey reports
- Be able to investigate and analyse services defects to develop solutions to system failures.
- Be experienced and confident in the preparation of feasibility studies.
- Be experienced and confident in the preparation of decarbonisation/sustainability reports.
- Be able produce plans, sections and detailed drawings, specifications, schedules of works and other documents to high standards in conjunction with internal and external design disciplines.
- Experience supervising and monitoring Electrical installation work on site (Clerk of Works / NEC Supervisor).
- Proficient in the use of the Microsoft Office Suite, Autodesk AutoCAD and NBS software, Revit.
- Knowledge of NEC and JCT contracts.
- Hold a full UK driving license

**“Align your career success with delivering our ambitious growth plans”**

When you join Align, you will join a team of professionals who feel rewarded for the work they do. Operating in a friendly and professional environment, we want to provide the training and resources to succeed and thrive in your role. Our people are not just numbers, everyone is crucial to the vital services we provide, and we treat everyone in our teams with respect and complete support.

In return for your commitment, we offer:

- A Competitive salary up to £55,000 per year, dependent on your skills and experience
- Enrolment on to a company pension scheme which we will contribute to up 6%
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays with opportunity to purchase up to 10 additional annual leave