Oxford senior electrical: varied schemes, not endless fit outs

Oxford has no shortage of electrical work, but much of it is the same fit out on repeat. This senior role is different because the practice behind it is multidisciplinary: schemes arrive early, span education, healthcare, heritage, residential and commercial buildings, and stay in house from concept to completion.

The firm is an established property and construction consultancy with a national office network and building services, structures and surveying disciplines side by side. For a senior electrical engineer that means leading your own designs from first principles, lighting, power, distribution and low carbon systems, rather than inheriting half resolved concepts from another office.

You are probably senior in title already but boxed in somewhere: one sector, one repeat client, or a structure where the client conversations happen without you. Here you own the schemes you run, deal with clients and architects directly, and help develop the intermediates and graduates around you. Progression to associate is a documented path, not a rumour.

Flexibility here is grown up: a core office presence for collaboration, room to manage your own diary around site visits and family, and no one counting minutes as a proxy for commitment.

Salary is between 52,000 and 68,000, with chartership support if you are still completing it and a package that grows with your remit.

If any of that lands, start with a conversation rather than an application. Ask the questions your current employer would rather you did not.

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