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Ref no:
12848_1766500110
Published:
23/12/2025
Closes:
06/01/2026
Location:
4 E Market St, Edinburgh, EH8 8BG
Salary:
£46,023 - £54,476 per year
Contract Type:
Permanent
Position Type:
Full Time
Hours:
36 hours per week

Building Services Engineer (Electrical) - Sustainable Construction Delivery Team
Waverley Court

Salary : £46,023 - £54,476
Hours: 36 per week, 52 weeks

Additional benefits of working with City of Edinburgh Council include:
* Excellent Career Average Salary Pension
* Flexible/Hybrid Working supporting a good work life balance
* Flexible Core Hours (through agreement)
* Local diverse and interesting projects

As part of its drive to de-carbonise, the Council is looking to recruit a dynamic, client focused, personable and technically strong Electrical Building Services Engineer, at a senior level, with previous people, design, project and management experience. You will be part of a growing team of building services engineers within the in-house multi discipline design service for the Council. You will be responsible for leading the design of high quality buildings as well as overseeing the design by external consulting teams.

CEC are leading the way for Public sector in the adoption of low and zero carbon technologies. CEC have adopted PassivHaus as the default standard for all its new build projects and are developing a carbon focussed approach for the large number of up and coming RetroFit refurbishment projects. This leads to a portfolio of interesting and market leading projects requiring high levels of technical understanding.

You should ideally have a Masters or equivalent degree qualification in Building Services or Electrical Engineering and hold a full membership of a related professional body such as CIBSE, IMechE or similar. Being a Chartered Engineer would also be of benefit.

You should also have extensive post qualification experience in building services design and project/contract management, as well as a proven record and ability of working as part of a professional design team. The post shall cover all aspects of contract documentation preperation, billing, certfiying contract payments and Principal Designer duties, as part of the CDM Regulations. You should have proficient experience and working knowledge in Auto CAD, Revit, NBS Specifications, MS Office and engineering design packages such as Dialux and Amtech. A good understanding of mechanical design and PassivHaus design principles would also be an advantage as would experience of embedding renewable technologies into projects. You should have good communication skills, both written and verbal, and be able to present well as a representative of the Council.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we're bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we're changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours - The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

Happy to talk flexible working.

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