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Location: Birmingham
Salary: Competitive (dependent on experience) + Benefits
An excellent opportunity is available for a Senior Electrical Engineer to join a leading multidisciplinary engineering consultancy in Birmingham, delivering major UK rail and transport projects.
Based in Birmingham with hybrid and flexible working available, this role offers the opportunity to work on technically challenging infrastructure programmes within an established Building Services team, with excellent scope for technical development and career progression.
The Role
As a Senior Electrical Engineer, you will play a key role in the electrical design and delivery of rail-related building and infrastructure projects.
You will work alongside multidisciplinary engineering teams, supporting projects through relevant rail design stages and ensuring solutions meet technical, client, and regulatory requirements.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Delivering technically robust electrical Building Services designs for UK rail projects
- Producing and reviewing electrical engineering calculations, specifications, and design information
- Working within multidisciplinary teams across complex transport programmes
- Ensuring designs comply with relevant UK standards and rail client requirements
- Supporting engineering assurance, verification, and systems engineering activities
- Coordinating electrical designs with other Building Services and engineering disciplines
- Using Microsoft and Autodesk digital tools to support project delivery
- Communicating effectively with clients, project teams, and technical stakeholders
- Managing design risks, deliverables, and key project milestones
- Mentoring engineers and contributing to technical knowledge-sharing and continuous improvement
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What You’ll Need
You will have a strong background as an Electrical Engineer within Building Services, ideally combined with significant UK rail project experience.
You should be able to demonstrate:
- Electrical Building Services design experience within the built environment
- Experience delivering UK multidisciplinary design projects
- Rail electrical design experience
- Knowledge of UK rail design stages, standards, and assurance requirements
- Experience with engineering assurance, systems engineering, and/or verification processes
- The ability to produce compliant and technically robust electrical designs
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Chartered Engineer status or progress towards Chartership through a relevant professional institution such as IET or CIBSE
The position could suit an established Senior Electrical Engineer or a Principal-level engineer looking for a position offering significant technical responsibility.
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What’s In It For You?
This Senior Electrical Engineer opportunity offers the chance to contribute to major rail and transport programmes while continuing to develop technically and professionally.
The package includes:
- Competitive salary
- Hybrid and flexible working arrangements
- Profit-related reward
- Private medical insurance
- Life assurance
- Accident insurance
- Income protection
- Flexible wellbeing benefits
- Professional development opportunities
- Support for continued technical and career progression
- Exposure to major UK and international engineering programmes
For an experienced Senior Electrical Engineer, this is an opportunity to combine complex rail design work with long-term career development and genuine influence over project delivery.
Apply Now
If you are an Electrical Engineer with strong Building Services experience and a background in UK rail projects, apply now for a confidential conversation about the opportunity.
About Energi People
Having spent 20 years earning trust across MEP building services, structural, and mission-critical engineering with the very best construction engineering firms in the UK, UAE, USA, and beyond, we know the disciplines, the best employers, and crucially, the roles that aren’t advertised. Find out more at https://energipeople.com/
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