Principal Electrical Engineer - Healthcare

Principal Electrical Engineer - Healthcare

Ramboll is ranked a Top 10 consultant in the UK and has around 2,000 bright minds working across multiple offices to apply their passion to deliver innovative solutions across Buildings, Transport, Environment & Health and Energy. We love seeing our talents develop and succeed and you will have opportunities to work on challenging and inspiring projects within an environment that is friendly, open and supportive.

Join Ramboll’s UK Healthcare team as a Principal Electrical Engineer and lead electrical engineering design and advisory for technically demanding hospital and healthcare projects across the UK and internationally. You will define resilient, low‑carbon electrical strategies, drive high‑quality digital delivery (Revit/BIM 360) and act as a confident client‑facing technical lead working across multi‑disciplinary teams.

We’re looking for someone with a proven track record delivering electrical building services on complex healthcare or high‑resilience projects, strong digital design capability, and either chartered status or qualifications that support MCIBSE, MIET or MIHEEM membership – with Ramboll providing structured chartership and professional development support. If you’re passionate about innovative engineering that improves patient care and advances sustainable outcomes, this role offers the scope to make a real impact.

As Principal Electrical Engineer in Ramboll’s UK Healthcare team you’ll provide senior technical leadership on a portfolio of technically demanding hospital and healthcare projects across the UK and internationally. You’ll combine hands‑on design and review with client engagement, team mentoring and project delivery responsibility to shape resilient, low‑carbon electrical strategies and ensure excellent digital delivery.

We offer flexible working arrangements with candidates able to work from any of our primary offices as well as home. We have an exciting range of ongoing projects including Hillerød Hospital Denmark, Cambridge Children’s Hospital, Kettering General Hospital and KEMH, Falklands Islands.

• Provide senior technical leadership for electrical building services from concept through to handover.
• Support and mentor the electrical team (engineers and technicians) and coordinate with multi‑disciplinary colleagues (mechanical, structural, public health, etc.).
• Develop and oversee electrical design concepts and detailed design, producing and reviewing calculations, specifications and drawings to meet UK healthcare standards.
• Lead digital delivery and MEP coordination using Revit (BIM 360) and industry tools (e.g., Magi Cad, Dialux, IES, Trimble).
• Act as a client‑facing technical lead: present solutions, chair technical workshops and maintain strong client relationships.
• Manage project scope, resource allocation and delivery as electrical/MEP project manager, identifying and mitigating technical and commercial risks.
• Embed best practice in sustainability, resilience and quality assurance across projects.
• Enhance Ramboll’s profile by contributing to proposals, technical thought leadership and external stakeholder engagement.

You’ll join a growing, national Healthcare team delivering an ambitious five‑year strategy. Our multidisciplinary group works across long‑term programmes and high‑profile new‑build acute hospitals, delivering projects that improve patient care and support NHS services.

• Meaningful impact: work on projects that directly benefit patients, staff and communities.
• Broad portfolio: national and international projects, from estate renewals to large hospital new builds.
• Collaborative culture: partner with leading UK and international architects and multidisciplinary specialists in a design‑driven environment rooted in strong Scandinavian design values.
• Career progression: clear development pathways, chartership support and opportunities to grow technically or into client/project leadership.
• Flexible ways of working: national footprint with the option to be based at any UK office and hybrid working as standard.

• Demonstrable track record delivering electrical building…