Senior Electrical Engineer
About the job
Salary: £45,718 - £48,710 a year plus £3,203 car benefit allowance
Hours per week: 37
Contract type: Permanent
Are you a seasoned Electrical Engineer looking to take the lead on a wide range of meaningful projects? We're on the lookout for someone with technical expertise and strong leadership skills to join our Project Design and Delivery Team.
In this role, you’ll be at the heart of our work—helping to shape the future of construction projects across schools, commercial spaces, housing developments, and public buildings. You’ll be responsible for providing leadership and delivering high-quality electrical design services, while also ensuring that every project meets both technical and financial expectations.
What you’ll be doing:
- Leading all aspects of electrical building services design from concept through to completion.
- Playing a key role in the delivery of new and existing construction projects—ensuring designs are innovative, efficient, and sustainable.
- Coordinating and overseeing work produced by both internal engineers and external consultants.
- Maintaining oversight of design standards, ensuring compliance with technical regulations and project objectives.
- Managing timelines, budgets, and resources to meet delivery targets.
- Mentoring junior team members and promoting best practices across the team.
About you
You bring substantial experience in Building Electrical Services Engineering, with a proven track record of both delivering and managing complex work within this field. You have a good understanding of how policy and strategy can shape effective electrical engineering services, and you've had some hands-on involvement in their development and implementation.
You're confident using AutoCAD and Revit-based software to produce clear, accurate technical drawings, and you're skilled in carrying out detailed electrical design calculations—leveraging tools such as Hevacomp, StabiCAD, or similar.
Planning, prioritising, and managing your workload comes naturally to you. You’re able to handle competing demands and project deadlines while staying focused on quality and efficiency. You have a strong grasp of relevant legislation and statutory requirements, including CDM regulations, asbestos regulations, and IEE wiring regulations, and you ensure your work always remains compliant.
You hold a relevant professional qualification and are a member of a recognised institution—such as CIBSE, IEE—or bring an equivalent combination of training and verifiable work-based experience.
About us
Our ambitious Luton 2040 Vision – that no-one in Luton will have to live in poverty – is at the heart of everything we do. We recognise that our people are remarkable, talented, committed and passionate about serving our residents.
The people of Luton depend heavily on this council – and that means our workforce! Are you ready to realise the remarkable and help us deliver our vision?
We welcome applications from all sections of the community and are committed to developing a workforce that reflects the diversity of our borough
Application Process
Because of the nature of this job, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare all unspent cautions and convictions; and also any adult cautions (simple or conditional), and spent convictions that are not protected as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020). A person’s criminal record will not in itself prevent a person from being appointed to this post. Applicants will not be refused posts because of offences which are not relevant to, and do not place them at or make them a risk in, the role for which they are applying. However in the event of the employment being taken up, any failure to disclose such offence, as detailed above, will result in dismissal or disciplinary action by the Authority.
On occasions, we may close a vacancy early due to a very high number of applications being received.
Benefits
We offer a range of excellent staff benefits which include:
- From 25 to 32 days’ annual leave: linked to length of service and grade
- Buying annual leave scheme: buy up to 20 days additional annual leave
- Career Pathways: step up in your career or move into a specialist area
- Pension scheme: with generous employer contributions of up to 20.2 per cent (at July 2023) and 3x salary death in service grant
- Generous relocation package: up to £8,000 (subject to eligibility)
- Employee Assistance Programme: a free, 24/7 confidential counselling and wellbeing support service available to all employees, their partner or spouse and dependent children over 16 still living at home
- Work/life balance: flexible working options including working from home where possible. We welcome requests for flexible working arrangements including part-time hours and alternative working patterns
- Training and support: unlimited access to development courses, mentoring and support and clear career pathways
- Staff offers: includes discounts on your MOT, gym and fitness, restaurants and salons
- Arriva Travel Club: great value savings on local bus travel
How to apply
We understand that job applications take time and effort, but a high-quality application shows that you are professional with a good attention to detail. The recruiting manager may receive a number of applications for each job advertised so you want yours to stand out!
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Available documents
Attached documents are available under links. Clicking a document link will initialize its download.Salary range
- £45,718 - £48,710 per year