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Data Centre CA Principal Electrical Engineer

AECOM
London, , United Kingdom Posted Oct 22, 2026
Full-timeHybrid

About this role

Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World.

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

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.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

The Data Centre MEP team is comprised of Associates, Principal, Senior, Engineer and graduates located across the UK, notionally working from our offices in London Aldgate and St Albans offices. 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 a chartered Principal Electrical Engineer, with Data Centre Construction Administration experience to run projects and take ownership for project delivery.

The successful applicant will have an ability to lead a team of engineers working on electrical scopes on projects but also work with a wider team of multi-discipline engineers.

We continue to win significant projects, where we can deliver innovative and sustainable engineering solutions. Our success to date is built on the quality of our people, and we are looking for a first-class engineer to fill this role.

You will work alongside accomplished peers and colleagues, who can guide, encourage and educate progression for the right candidate through the business.

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

Here's what you'll do:

  • Project planning and management
  • Provide specialised technical input to studies and design for staff's specific area of expertise.
  • Preparation of contract documentation and specifications.
  • Estimating and cost control on projects.
  • Manage own workload and meet deadlines on task assigned.
  • Compiling technical project reports
  • A self-starter who can use own initiative and a problem solver
  • Present technical solutions to clients and peers
  • Participate in development of technical proposals
  • Attend design team and coordination meetings where required.
  • Attend site inspection meetings where required.
  • Liaise with clients, professional organizations, contractors, suppliers, sub-contractors and other design team members.
  • Mentoring and development of junior and intermediate engineers in the group.

Qualifications

Here's what we're looking for:

  • 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.

  • Conversant with ETAP, Relux/Dialux, MS project, AutoCAD and Revit software packages.

  • 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.

  • 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 internationally

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

  • Master’s 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.

  • Experience in a wide range of medium to large-scale projects.

  • Experience in leading and supervising multi-disciplinary design teams.

  • 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 dri

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