Electrical Design Engineer

Application Deadline: 8 September 2026

Department: Contracts

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Alternative Heat Head Office

Reporting To: Head of Engineering and Building Services

The opportunity has arisen to join an industry leader in UK’s & Ireland’s Building Services sector. Alternative Heat design, develop and deliver a wide range of offsite-prefabricated, innovative, and sustainable building service solutions throughout the UK & Europe.

What We Do

Alternative Heat is a market-leading provider of “Offsite Modular Solutions” and innovative MEP solutions, within the European Data Centre sector, serving clients across Ireland, the UK, and Europe. In line with strong company growth and a healthy forward order book, Alternative Heat have established two key routes to market within this sector and in doing so have established two dedicated Data Centre Business Units to serve this sector.

Team Overview

Within one of these Business Units, Alternative Heat deliver turnkey plantroom packages at scale, directly to hyperscale Data Centre developers throughout Europe, under long-term framework agreements. This Business Unit is scaling at pace, and we have secured a 5-year framework agreement to design, manufacture and deliver volume based, turnkey plantroom modules (mechanical, electrical and BMS) to projects throughout Europe, with demand set to increase annually.

What you will be doing

The Electrical Design Engineer is responsible for designing and reviewing electrical systems within prefabricated MEP modules and plantrooms. The role supports the preparation of electrical designs for Data Centre plantrooms and prefabricated products, including general power and lighting, boiler plants, chillers, circulation pumps, inverters and BMS control equipment.

Job Title

Electrical Design Engineer

Location: Banbridge, Northern Ireland

Hours: Monday-Thursday 8am-5pm and Friday 8am-3pm

Salary: Competitive Depending on Experience

Responsible to: Head of Engineering and Building Services