Principal Engineer, Building Services Engineering (Electrical)

Rolton Group; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 50,000 - GBP 75,000; Full time

Job summary

An established engineering consultancy in the United Kingdom is seeking a Principal Engineer who will manage medium to large scale projects and lead the engineering design of electrical services. This role requires at least ten years of relevant experience, a Chartered Engineer status, and proficiency in software such as Autodesk Revit MEP. You will collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team to provide engineering support to various sectors. Join us in our commitment to excellence and innovation in engineering.

Benefits

Internal mentoring and training programs

Opportunities to work with international brands

Qualifications

• Minimum ten years post-graduate hands-on design experience is required.
• Experience with building services consultancy is essential.
• High level of computer literacy with relevant software.

Responsibilities

• Lead project management for medium to large scale projects.
• Develop and finalize engineering design solutions.
• Manage teams and represent the company at meetings.

Skills

High Voltage (HV) and Low Voltage (LV) Distribution

General and Emergency Lighting

Access Control, CCTV, and Intruder Alarms

Fire Detection and Alarm

ISO Clean/Dry Rooms

Education

Building services/architectural engineering degree or master

Chartered Engineer (CEng) certification

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Autodesk Revit MEP

National Building Specification (NBS)

Amtech ProDesign

Job description

Overview

Posted 2 February 2026 / Deadline for application 28 February 2026

We are looking for a Principal Engineer to join the existing Mechanical & Electrical Building Services (MEP) team that provides engineering support to several Blue-Chip International Brands. Experience within the automotive, commercial/industrial, retail, residential and education sectors are essential with experience with steam and in clean/dry rooms is desirable.

Rolton is an established, award-winning, professional multi-disciplinary engineering practice with a passion for excellence, innovation and environmental sustainability. Throughout every project, we use our construction and engineering experience and our knowledge of the client’s business to add value. Our multi-disciplinary teams work alongside clients and developers.

The successful candidate will be responsible, under the leadership of the Director/Associate, for the project management of medium to large scale projects and individual engineering task(s) for numerous schemes for client’s cross sector. This will include the creation, development of and finalising engineering design solutions of electrical services elements, working with other team members and project teams together with direct liaison with the client and other design team professionals.

The candidate shall have experience across the breadth of Electrical building services such as:

• High Voltage (HV) and Low Voltage (LV) Distribution
• General and Emergency Lighting
• General LV Power
• Access Control, Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) and Intruder Alarms
• Fire Detection and Alarm
• Lightning and Surge Protection Systems
• Process Services
• ISO Clean/Dry Rooms

Also, the candidate should be able to:

• Complete survey work and site inspections
• Undertake design calculations using various methods, from hand calculations to software-based modelling
• Prepare drawn information
• Write technical specifications
• Write technical reports
• Identify and resolve problems early
• Peer review and check design information prepared by others
• Manage a project specific team of engineers
• Representing Rolton Group at meetings
• Allocate and manage project specific workload of Graduates, Project Engineers, senior engineers and Admin support
• Manage commercial aspects of projects they are working on including responsibility for management of project income and costs
• Manage client relationships on specific projects
• Look for additional opportunities within existing and new client relationships
• Take responsibility for their own professional and personal development
• Input and some responsibility for professional and personal development of team members, team Performance and Development Reviews and mentoring.

We are interested in hearing from established building services engineering candidates who have been working within building services and specifically building services consultancy with at least ten years post graduate “hands on” design experience. The candidate should be a Chartered Engineer (CEng) with either the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) or Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and possess a building services/architectural engineering degree and/or master.

The candidate for this position will have a high level of computer literacy, a good working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Autodesk Revit MEP, National Building Specification (NBS) and Amtech ProDesign. The successful candidate will be required to provide support to our other teams and/or offices from time to time.

The ability to operate as part of a wider project team within appropriate authority levels and to represent the company with confidence to a variety of clients and outside organisations is expected. The candidate will have the ability to work on their own initiative as well as part of one of our dynamic teams with high attention to accuracy and detail.

A self-motivated person will have ample opportunity to improve their knowledge, skills, experience and to work with some of the world’s greatest businesses across a wide range of industry sectors. You will be expected to contribute your ideas, add value, play your part and progress in a consultancy that is ‘Engineering the Future’.

We offer an internal mentoring and training program aimed at developing the individual as well as the “Engineer”.

Role Details

• Position : Principal Engineer
• Location: Peterborough, Higham Ferrers, London or Birmingham
• Reporting to : Director/Associate
• Reference: PEMEPPE0408

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Equal opportunities

The company is fully committed to fair and equal treatment of all employees and applicants; we discriminate on talent and talent alone.

Supporting the next generation

We offer work experience placements, as well as internal graduate mentoring and training programs aimed at developing individual needs as the “Engineer” with a view to progression to Chartered Engineer (CEng) status or similar.

You’ll have the opportunity to get involved in multi-disciplinary engineering, gain hands on experience in new disciplines to kick-start your career.