Associate Electrical Engineer

We have a brand-new opportunity for an Associate Electrical Engineer to join our MEP division based in ourNewcastle office.

It's an exciting time to join our MEP team! We have a proven track record working within the North of England, with offices in Leeds, Manchester and more recently Scotland. We are now looking to build a team in Newcastle - this is the perfect opportunity to build your own team and progress quickly!

Working collaboratively with our North division, you will be you will be joining a fun, highly engaged team who love what they do. Our team have a wealth of experience and will offer support, development opportunities and expert advice.

Your role will include:

• Be a pro-active member of the MEP leadership team, and oversee the day to day running of the electrical disciplines, overseeing multidisciplinary projects across a number of building sectors.
• Maintain and develop external relationships with clients and take responsibility for the commercial performance of projects including negotiating additional fees and facilitating new & continued work.
• Act as a role model within the MEP team, ensuring projects are delivered to a ‘right-first-time’ approach, ensuring appropriate quality management procedures are in place and are adhered to.

Our Mechanical, Electrical & Public Health (MEP) division:

Our MEP team are specialists in energy, sustainability, and engineering design. We bring buildings to life and create award winning, high-performance environments that enhance the built environment – working across all sectors including commercial, industrial, leisure, retail, manufacturing, logistics, heritage and residential.

• Building performance optimisation
• Carbon verification and validation strategies
• Daylight and sunlight studies
• Sustainability benchmarking and environmental assessments
• Strategic utility management services

We offer a fresh approach to MEP, getting involved early, working collaboratively with the design team, highlighting options, guiding design development, and using our expertise to help clients make key decisions.

Most importantly, you’ll find us a lively, good-spirited team, passionate about what we’re doing and enjoying each other’s company – we’ll be sure to give you a warm welcome too! Check out our MEP project portfoliohere .

To succeed in this role, you’ll need:

• Relevant qualification at HNC, HND, Bachelors or Masters and have chartered status.
• Proven Electrical Associate with a strong track record of working within the UK on a range of mainstream building services projects.
• Experienced team manager, including recruitment, wellbeing, performance, management and development.
• Ability to win work and undertake business operations including marketing, commercial and financial responsibilities.
• Sound knowledge of BIM processes, Revit and IES/Amtech.

Please note we are actively looking to grow our team in Newcastle and welcome applications from candidates at all levels. If you don’t quite meet the criteria listed above, please do get in touch as we may still have opportunities that will utilise your skillset!

What's great about Hydrock 'in a nutshell'?

• We are a British-owned integrated multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy of over 900 staff in 21 offices across the UK. Our driving motivation is to be a ‘Force for Good’, as it is our aim to improve the quality of people’s lives from our employees to our clients, through to the communities we work in and our planet as a whole through the work we do.
• From the buildings that surround you, the roads and bridges you cross, all related to the infrastructure that we create, we aim to offer the most sustainable possibilities to shape the places, communities and society that we live in through meeting our client’s needs. Through the path we are on to delivering a green future, the result is something that everyone can be proud of.
• Our welcoming and friendly culture is something we are proud of and has gained us recognition with 9 years in the Top100 Best Companies to Work For list . Check out some of our incredible projects which have been awarded: 2022 Net Zero Award forBay Technology Centre , Integration and Collaborative Working Award forYGG Tan-y-Lan primary school,The Deaf Academy awarded for its Universal Design at the 2022 Civic Trust Awards and Bristol’s iconic waterfrontWapping Wharf Living making a double win at the Bristol Property Awards!
• Great learning and development opportunities.
• Inspiring and supportive colleagues
• Reward for progression and hard work
• An opportunity to develop your soft skills, as well your technical skills
• Excellent health benefits25 days of holiday (buy/sell up to five days), accrue 1 day extra every 2 years, with bonus holidays too!
• An earlier finish on Friday (4pm!)
• An opportunity to give back: “Day off for good cause” (on a workday)
• A huge range of flexible benefits, including climate perks and an EV car leasing scheme

We champion diversity, equity, and inclusion. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we commit to supporting our employees and ensure we create a safe environment that nurtures you to perform at your best. Offering our people flexibility is an important factor in achieving this aim.

We consider all application individually with the required qualifications and knowledge without regard to any of theprotected characteristics . We would like to provide everyone with a fair selection, assessment and employment experience so we ask with are made aware of any physical or neurodiverse condition within your application for which appropriate reasonable adjustments can be made by us.

Looking for the next steps?

Once you have completed your application through our careers site, we aim to review and respond to you as soon as your application’s been reviewed.

If shortlisted, a member of our Recruitment Team will call you for an initial pre-screen by phone (typically 30 minutes) to help us assess your motivations and interest in the position and Hydrock.

If you progress following this telephone pre-screen, you will be invited to attend a formal interview by video conference (Microsoft Teams) or in our offices.

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