Electrical Technical Director

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We are seeking an experienced Electrical Technical Director to lead and further develop the electrical engineering discipline within our Building Services team in Belfast. This is a senior leadership role with responsibility for technical excellence, innovation, and strategic direction across a diverse portfolio of healthcare, education, and school sector projects.

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.

What you’ll do

Technical Leadership

• Lead the electrical engineering discipline across healthcare, education, and school projects, ensuring full compliance with relevant standards and regulations

• Oversee and review designs for LV/HV distribution, lighting, fire detection and alarms, emergency systems, security, ICT, and BMS/BAS

• Ensure compliance with healthcare-specific standards, including HTMs, HBNs, and NHS requirements

• Champion innovation and the integration of low-carbon and sustainable technologies

• Provide technical assurance and governance across the electrical design output

Project Delivery

• Manage the technical delivery of multiple projects from concept through detailed design and construction

• Provide electrical leadership across all RIBA design stages

• Review, approve, and sign off technical documentation, specifications, and reports

• Collaborate closely with mechanical, public health, sustainability, and digital/BIM teams to deliver fully integrated building services solutions

Client & Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary technical point of contact for electrical design matters with clients, consultants, and contractors

• Build and maintain strong client relationships, particularly within the healthcare and education sectors, to support repeat business and growth

• Contribute to bids, tenders, presentations, and project interviews

Team Development

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of electrical engineers

• Support resource planning, recruitment, succession planning, and performance management

• Implement and maintain best practice processes, QA/QC procedures, and adherence to internal and industry standards

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?  

Requirements:

• Degree-qualified in Electrical Engineering or Building Services Engineering (or equivalent).

• Chartered Engineer (CEng) with the IET or equivalent professional body.

• Extensive experience (typically 10+ years) in building services electrical design, including leadership of healthcare and education sector projects.

• Proven track record of delivering complex electrical designs for hospitals, laboratories, universities, and schools.

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For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn Colum Calnan.

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.