Electrical Associate Director (Healthcare)

Company Description

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There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

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Job Description

The St Albans MEP team is comprised of Associate Directors, Principal, Senior, Engineer and graduates also working closely with our other national MEP teams, specifically with the team in Aldgate London.

We are a close knit, supportive community, nurturing exceptional talent in the building services industry. We work closely alongside our 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 our clients across the world.

We are seeking an experienced Electrical Associate Director with Healthcare experience, enthusiasm, confidence and ability to run projects and take ownership for project delivery.

About us

We are friendly, busy and motivated with an established track record of successfully delivering local and overseas projects. Some of our flagship work in recent years include:

• Decarbonisation : Multiple projects where we have undertaken the feasibility of the removal of boilers and installation of Air Source and Water source heat pumps to provide the heating and cooling for the building. Projects include commercial buildings like 80 – 100 Victoria Street London, British Library, multiple residential buildings in the Royal Borough of Greenwich and even Windsor Castle.
• Healthcare : AECOM is a leading award-winning consultant for the NHS in the UK and internationally, delivering projects ranging from major acute hospitals to primary care and estate refurbishment schemes, while supporting the NHS Net Zero Carbon agenda.

AI4Engineering is part of AECOM's broader commitment to innovation and sustainability in engineering. By embracing AI, AECOM not only enhances its service offerings but also contributes to the industry's evolution towards more intelligent and automated solutions. This initiative reflects AECOM's dedication to delivering high-quality, efficient, and environmentally responsible engineering services.

Here’s What You Will Do :

You will provide authoritative technical leadership, mentor and inspire teams, and act as a trusted, client-facing expert—helping to deliver sustainable, high-performing, and compliant building solutions.

• Lead the design and oversee contractor implementation of electrical systems, ensuring they meet client needs, regulatory requirements, and sustainability goals.
• Engage with stakeholders at all levels, including clients, architects, M&E teams, contractors, and senior management, building strong relationships and providing expert advice.
• Manage complex projects from start to finish conducting feasibility studies, developing specifications and point schedules, tender management, cost and bid analysis, and progress reporting.
• Promote Safety, Health & Environmental (SH&E) best practices, solving technical challenges while ensuring compliance and fostering a culture of safety.
• Occasionally travel nationally to project sites and AECOM offices, while balancing office-based work with flexible remote working arrangements.

The ideal candidate will be experienced in data centre design or exposure to this sector and the basic design principles of electrical services in data centre or industrial facilities.

Minimum requirements:

• A team player, who can confidently deliver electrical designs in conjunction with and in close collaboration with our other building services and wider disciplines.
• Post Graduate experience in a building services design role with particular focus on data centres
• The ability to approach projects with forward thinking, open mindedness, confident in liaising with clients, project managers and contractors.
• 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
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, able to work with clients, architects, M&E contractors, and senior stakeholders
• You will possess a full clean driving licence and passport, be willing and able to travel to projects across the region and beyond, on occasion staying over and including international

Please note that Security Clearance will be required to work on some projects so you will need to be able to fulfil the criteria to obtain this.

 

 

Qualifications

• Degree qualified (or with requisite post qualification experience if degree qualified) in electrical engineering, preferably with a building services bias but not compulsory.
• Member of a professional accreditation body, IET or CIBSE
• CEng accredited or working towards

Additional Information

At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

 

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. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are 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. Please let us know using this email address [email protected]  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.