Senior Electrical Design Engineer (Building Services)

Hampshire County Council is seeking two Senior Electrical Engineers to join their multidisciplinary team of over 300 professionals. The role involves designing and managing various projects, including capital works and building maintenance, across a diverse portfolio of public properties throughout Hampshire and neighbouring counties. Candidates should have relevant qualifications and experience, as well as a commitment to achieving chartered status. Proficiency in electrical service design and client liaison is essential. The position may also include supervising junior engineers, and strong organisational skills are necessary for successful project delivery. Further details are available in the candidate pack.

The Role:

We are looking for two Senior Electrical Engineers to join a multidisciplinary team of over 300 property professionals, designing, refurbishing, and maintaining a wide range of new and existing properties across the Hampshire County Council (HCC) estate.

What you’ll do:

Designing and managing the delivery of projects and programmes of work including capital projects, planned building repairs/maintenance and improvements, you will supervise works on site to a range of public buildings throughout the whole of Hampshire and adjacent counties. This offers a unique opportunity working to improve your own community and making a positive change to the county of Hampshire – in a variety of ways via the projects that we deliver. The work is varied, as Hampshire County Council has an extensive portfolio of properties including libraries, museums, country parks, schools, care homes, offices, activity centres and farms. The portfolio ranges from new builds through to ancient scheduled monuments and listed buildings.

For more information on our work and teams please visit our website and look at the case studies and profiles at .

What we’re looking for:

• To be successful in the role, you need to be suitably qualified and/or experienced and progressing, or committed to progress, professional membership to chartered status via CIBSE/IET etc. plus relevant accredited degree or HNC/HND minimum or equivalent in Building Services.
• You will need to be proficient in designing and calculating electrical services including small power, Data/IT, Fire Alarms, Security, Access Control, lighting, power distribution, renewables such as photovoltaics etc., to the built estate on behalf of the County Council. 
• Undertaking effective client liaison which could be schools, care homes, libraries, countryside estate, or external clients.

The post may also include line management of up to two junior/intermediate engineering professionals in the completion of work across multiple budgets.

The successful candidate will have strong organisational skills and experience of delivering a range of projects which could be engineering only or as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Our people are what make us a vibrant and well-respected organisation, so if you are ready for your next career as one of our senior leaders, then further information about the role responsibilities and essential/desirable criteria are available within the candidate pack linked below.