Client:

The client is a human-centric and planet-conscious engineering consultancy, delivering intelligent and sustainable solutions to complex design challenges across the built environment in the UK and internationally.

They provide a comprehensive range of engineering and consultancy services, including acoustics, air quality, building services (MEP), fire, lighting, security, and sustainability. Their multidisciplinary teams combine technical excellence and creative problem-solving to deliver outstanding building design and operational performance that meets the needs of the communities they serve.

The client is committed to creating an inclusive, supportive environment where individuals can thrive. Employees benefit from a 9-day fortnight scheme, wellbeing initiatives, community networks, social and networking events, structured professional development programmes, and a comprehensive benefits package including private medical cover, electric vehicle salary sacrifice, stock options, and up to 30 days of annual leave.

Their ambition is to enable everyone to develop their knowledge, perform at their best, and enjoy meaningful and rewarding careers.

Role:

The client is seeking a Senior Associate / Associate Engineer to join their Operational Assets team in Oxford, taking on the role of Office Workstream Lead.

This senior leadership position involves responsibility for managing and developing the office workstream, driving business development across both existing and new clients, and overseeing the professional, commercial, financial, and administrative delivery of Operational Asset services within the Oxford office and wider regional area.

This opportunity is ideally suited to a technically strong and commercially aware engineer with a passion for existing buildings, who thrives on solving complex operational challenges and is motivated by delivering pragmatic, data-driven solutions that support the transition to net zero.

The Operational Assets team integrates the expertise of property consultants, design engineers, and building performance specialists to provide a fully joined-up service across the building lifecycle. The team embeds itself within client organisations, developing sustainable roadmaps and delivering improvements from early concept through implementation and long-term operation.

With a strong track record across the residential, commercial, and healthcare sectors, the team continues to expand to meet increasing client demand, offering a unique opportunity to shape and grow a high-performing regional workstream.

Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will take a senior leadership role, responsible for:

• Leading and developing the Oxford Operational Assets workstream, including planning, financial oversight, and team management.
• Securing new projects while strengthening existing client relationships and supporting regional growth strategies.
• Supporting the regional lead in delivery planning, workload management, and service development.
• Providing strong technical leadership, mentorship, and supervision to engineers and consultants.
• Working collaboratively with other discipline teams to deliver a diverse portfolio of projects.
• Recruiting, training, and developing team members, supporting long-term succession planning.
• Undertaking detailed design, technical specification, and site monitoring activities.
• Managing commissioning processes and delivering post-occupancy engineering services.
• Producing technical reports including feasibility studies, investigations, and condition surveys.
• Liaising directly with clients, contractors, consultants, and stakeholders with strong commercial and project management awareness.

The role involves leading projects valued up to several million pounds, delivering technical support to asset owners, landlords, managing agents, and project teams. The portfolio is predominantly UK-based, with some international opportunities.

Operational Assets – Core Service Areas

The team delivers expertise across three key service streams:

1. Decarbonisation & Energy Performance – Developing pragmatic strategies to reduce energy consumption, enhance occupant comfort, and deliver net-zero outcomes using emerging technologies and data-led solutions.
2. Design & Engineering – Delivering creative, technically robust building services design solutions for complex existing buildings across all RIBA stages.
3. Property Consultancy – Providing technical advisory services to support property management, asset operation, and transactional processes, including:

• Technical due diligence (vendor and pre-acquisition)
• Dilapidations surveys
• Planned preventative maintenance reporting
• Licences to Alter
• Maintenance inspections
• Validation management
• Asset registers
• Troubleshooting
• Energy optimisation surveys
• EPC assessments

Projects span multiple sectors including commercial offices, retail, residential, education, healthcare, justice, defence, heritage, industrial, and technology.

Requirements:

The ideal candidate will demonstrate:

• Chartered status as a qualified design engineer.
• Strong technical expertise in a primary engineering discipline, ideally with experience in the science and research sector.
• A solid understanding of secondary engineering disciplines and multidisciplinary coordination.
• Good contractual, commercial, and project risk management capability.
• Proven experience in performance specification, detailed design, contract administration, and site supervision.
• Broad building services engineering knowledge with a strong technical foundation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong knowledge of UK and relevant EU regulations, standards, and design guidance.
• Excellent organisational, leadership, and interpersonal skills.
• A proven track record in work winning, team leadership, and client relationship management.
• Security clearance, or willingness to undergo vetting, is advantageous for involvement in certain sectors.

Client:

The client is a human-centric and planet-conscious engineering consultancy, delivering intelligent and sustainable solutions to complex design challenges across the built environment, throughout the UK and internationally.

They provide a comprehensive range of engineering and consultancy services, including acoustics, air quality, building services (MEP), fire, lighting, security, and sustainability. Their highly skilled teams combine technical excellence with problem-solving expertise to bring buildings to life, ensuring exceptional design quality and operational performance that meets the needs of the communities they serve.

The client is committed to fostering an inclusive, supportive environment where individuals can realise their full potential. Employees benefit from a culture that promotes wellbeing, professional development, and individuality. Their benefits package includes a 9-day fortnight scheme, thriving community groups, varied social and networking events, structured professional and technical development programmes, private medical cover, an electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme, stock options, and up to 30 days of annual leave.

Their ambition is to empower everyone to develop their knowledge, perform at their best, and enjoy meaningful and rewarding careers.

Role:

The client has an exciting opportunity for a Principal/Associate Engineer to join their Operational Assets team, based in their Oxford office.

This role is ideally suited to individuals who are passionate about existing buildings, enjoy developing innovative and pragmatic solutions to complex operational challenges, and are motivated by using real-time building data to help drive progress towards net-zero outcomes.

The newly established Operational Assets team brings together property consultants, design engineers, and data-led building performance specialists to deliver a holistic service offering across the full building lifecycle. The team works closely with clients to embed themselves within asset portfolios, developing sustainable roadmaps and supporting projects from concept through implementation and ongoing operation.

With a strong track record across the Residential, Commercial, and Healthcare sectors, the team continues to expand to meet growing market demand. This collaborative, highly skilled group delivers technically robust and commercially valuable outcomes for clients.

Responsibilities:

In this key and varied role, the successful candidate will:

• Secure new projects and support both existing and new clients, assisting the regional lead with delivery planning and team strategy.
• Lead work delivery, organisational support, and team growth to support regional and local client requirements.
• Demonstrate strong leadership, providing guidance, mentorship, and technical supervision to colleagues.
• Collaborate closely with other teams and discipline leads to ensure efficient project delivery and workload planning.
• Recruit, train, and develop team members, supporting long-term succession planning and professional growth.
• Undertake detailed design, technical specification, and site monitoring activities.
• Monitor commissioning processes and deliver post-occupancy engineering services.
• Prepare technical documentation including feasibility studies, condition surveys, and investigative reports.
• Liaise directly with clients, demonstrating strong commercial awareness and project management skills.

The role involves leading small to medium-sized projects, typically valued up to several million pounds, and providing technical support to asset owners, landlords, managing agents, project managers, and end users. The project portfolio is primarily UK-based, with occasional international opportunities.

Operational Assets – Core Service Areas:

The team operates across three primary service streams:

1. Decarbonisation, Performance Improvement & Energy Reduction – Delivering energy efficiency, building performance enhancement, and net-zero strategies through pragmatic engineering solutions and emerging technologies, from strategic planning to implementation.
2. Design – Specialising in complex existing buildings across all RIBA stages, delivering creative and sustainable design solutions that modernise and enhance building services systems to meet current standards and operational demands.
3. Property Consultancy – Providing technical advisory services to support property management, asset operation, and transactional processes, including:

• Technical due diligence (vendor and pre-acquisition)
• Dilapidations surveys
• Planned preventative maintenance reporting
• Licences to Alter
• Maintenance inspections
• Validation management
• Asset registers
• Troubleshooting
• Energy optimisation surveys
• EPC assessments

Projects span a diverse range of sectors including Commercial Offices, Retail, Residential, Education, Healthcare, Justice, Defence, Heritage, Industrial, and Technology.

Requirements:

To succeed in this role, candidates will ideally demonstrate:

• Chartered status or progress towards chartership as a qualified design engineer.
• Strong experience working on refurbishment and fit-out projects within existing buildings.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong knowledge of building data analytics and metering systems.
• Proven experience in performance specification, detailed design, contract administration, and site supervision.
• Broad knowledge of building services engineering, with strong expertise in a primary discipline and sound understanding of secondary disciplines.
• Solid working knowledge of UK and relevant EU regulations, standards, and design guidance.
• Strong organisational, planning, and time-management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to influence, collaborate, and build long-term client relationships.
• Demonstrable experience in work-winning and team leadership.

The Client:

Multidisciplinary engineering consultancy with a 150-year history specializing in mechanical, electrical, and public health (MEP) engineering.  They have grown into one of the most respected firms in the building services engineering sector, known for their focus on sustainable, innovative, and performance-driven design.  They provide a wide range of engineering and consultancy services, including acoustics, air quality, building services (MEP), fire, lighting, security and sustainability and are frequently recognised in industry awards for sustainability and innovation in low energy buildings, and net zero strategies.

They are as committed to providing an environment where everyone can realise their unique potential and encourage a collaborative working environment. Upon joining you will experience a business that enriches your knowledge, supports your wellbeing, and welcomes your individuality. With 11 national offices and approx. 1,200 employees, they are large enough to provide stability and opportunity, but small enough to recognise their people as individuals.  You’ll have the opportunity to participate in their 9-day fortnight, hybrid working, thriving community groups, varied social and networking events, and extensive professional and technical development schemes. They also offer an extensive benefits package, including private medical cover, electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme, stock options, and up to 30 days of annual leave.

The Role:

The Oxford office was established to provide a local presence on projects. They have an abundance of expertise and knowledge that is regularly called upon throughout the firm, mainly within complex engineering sectors such as Science and Research, and Healthcare.

It’s an exciting time to join the Oxford team as they are focused on growth, both in the UK and overseas.

As a Principal or Associate Engineer, you will be responsible for supporting and delivering designs for a range of project types and sizes. You will work within a multidisciplinary team of engineers and support staff delivering a consistent high-quality service for clients, ensuring that repeat and new business opportunities are developed and profitability is achieved.

In this key and varied role, you can expect to:

•  Be responsible for the day-to-day technical delivery of the electrical design services for multi-disciplinary projects across a number of building sectors.
• Lead the development of initial strategic concepts for projects ensuring solutions are appropriate for the brief and regulatory standards.
• Interact regularly with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring a communicative, collaborative and timely approach to delivery. This is a client-facing role, so you will be attending project meetings and disseminating / translating the brief within the project team.
• Work with the team leader to help monitor fee expenditure, resources and work delivered.
• Mentor and support our ‘next gen’ professionals, including apprentices and graduates.

About You:

To be successful in this role you’ll need:

• Proven experience working as an Electrical Engineer or in a closely related role, with a track record delivering on a variety of complex projects.
• Experience of modern technical delivery processes, and use of relevant software/tools such as BIM, Revit, Electrical OM, Dialux, and Relux.
• Demonstrable experience working with clients/contractors / architects in a design-oriented / consultant role.
• Self-awareness, an open mind, and a spirit of generosity.
• Experience in supporting others to develop knowledge, skills, and confidence.

The Client:

Multidisciplinary engineering consultancy with a 150-year history specializing in mechanical, electrical, and public health (MEP) engineering.  They have grown into one of the most respected firms in the building services engineering sector, known for their focus on sustainable, innovative, and performance-driven design.  They provide a wide range of engineering and consultancy services, including acoustics, air quality, building services (MEP), fire, lighting, security and sustainability and are frequently recognised in industry awards for sustainability and innovation in low energy buildings, and net zero strategies.

They are as committed to providing an environment where everyone can realise their unique potential and encourage a collaborative working environment. Upon joining you will experience a business that enriches your knowledge, supports your wellbeing, and welcomes your individuality. With 11 national offices and approx. 1,200 employees, they are large enough to provide stability and opportunity, but small enough to recognise their people as individuals.  You’ll have the opportunity to participate in their 9-day fortnight, hybrid working, thriving community groups, varied social and networking events, and extensive professional and technical development schemes. They also offer an extensive benefits package, including private medical cover, electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme, stock options, and up to 30 days of annual leave.

The Role:

The Oxford office was established to provide a local presence on projects. They have an abundance of expertise and knowledge that is regularly called upon throughout the firm, mainly within complex engineering sectors such as Science and Research, and Healthcare.

It’s an exciting time to join the Oxford team as they are focused on growth, both in the UK and overseas.

As a Principal or Associate Engineer, you will be responsible for supporting and delivering designs for a range of project types and sizes. You will work within a multidisciplinary team of engineers and support staff delivering a consistent high-quality service for clients, ensuring that repeat and new business opportunities are developed and profitability is achieved.

In this key and varied role, you can expect to:

• Be responsible for dealing successfully with Clients and other professionals to foster and maintain good relationships and create future opportunities.
• Promote the full range of services offered and contribute to bid preparation.
• Define and agree brief with Client, take ownership and consistently deliver profitable schemes.
• Lead larger scale schemes and co-ordinate all disciplines being the main Client point of contact throughout a project.
• Support in developing and leading a high-performing local team and contribute to staff development.
• Manage and prioritise the workload of a project team including specialist groups and effectively delegate, manage and check work undertaken by others.
• Monitor project expenditure and report cost and resource requirements to the management team.
• Ensure quality standards and technical accuracy is delivered and manage and mitigate risks to business.

About You:

To be successful in this role you’ll need:

• Proven experience working as a Mechanical Engineer or closely related role, with a track record delivering on a variety of complex projects.
• Understanding of all mechanical services including heating, ventilation and air conditioning.
• Experience working in a multi-disciplinary environment, with excellent communication skills with both internal and external clients, and a team-based work approach.
• Use of relevant software/tools such as Revit and AutoCAD.
• Self-awareness, an open mind, and a spirit of generosity.
• Conversant with relevant British Standards.
• Consultancy experience.
• Previous consultancy experience, you will appreciate the importance of complementary specialisms such as acoustics, fire engineering and computer modelling in the design of buildings and be adept at analysing and interpreting their impact on your work.

Client:

A multi award-winning team of engineers, environmental designers, and sustainability consultants with more than 1,000 international employees. Their goal is to work towards a regenerative future in which all projects make a positive contribution to the health of the communities that they serve and the planet as a whole. With a clear mission to make an impact through delivering high-performance sustainable design and developments.

As well as working for a world-class building engineering design, analytic and consulting service, specialising in net-zero first thinking, their employees’ careers are carefully developed through peer-to-peer mentoring and training, soft skills training programme, a bespoke CPD programme and an individual development plan backed by a generous training budget.

Role:

This is a new role within the business and will sit within the wider sustainability team. You will be working closely with the Associate Principal in Sustainability with a view to growing the carbon offering and consultancy service.

The role will contribute to the delivery of work relating to the decarbonisation of existing building stock, and the whole life carbon assessments, in particular within MEP installations.

You will be able to support the growth of business in this area by identifying new opportunities and delivering insightful presentations to potential new clients. The opportunity to do this will enable you to be part of a client’s project from concept right through to delivery.

Benefits:

Competitive remuneration package, wellbeing benefits and an Employee Assistance Programme to provide mental wellbeing support, guidance and advice.

Their offices in Abingdon are in a rural setting and consist of a close-knit multidisciplinary team that offers a wonderful working experience.  The entire company works to a hybrid working policy, including flexible hours that help people to achieve a healthy work-life balance.

Client:

A multi award-winning team of engineers, environmental designers, and sustainability consultants. Their goal is to work towards a regenerative future in which all projects make a positive contribution to the health of the communities that they serve and the planet as a whole. With a clear mission to make an impact through delivering high-performance sustainable design and developments.

As well as working for a world-class building engineering design, analytic and consulting service, specialising in net-zero first thinking, their employees’ careers are carefully developed through peer-to-peer mentoring and training, soft skills training programme, a bespoke CPD programme and an individual development plan backed by a generous training budget.

Role:

As a Senior Electrical Design Engineer, you will create innovative designs and bring them to life, manage design projects, collaborate with clients, partners and colleagues and help grow the business by identifying new opportunities.  You will primarily be focused on commercial and education projects although there is opportunity to get involved with other projects.  You will be leading teams, consulting with clients and delivering engineering excellence and you should expect to demonstrate competency using Revit, Dialux, Amtech, and IES.

They are particularly interested in candidates with an interest in sustainability and achieving carbon net zero or carbon neutral targets.  As an organisation they are driven by low carbon and energy practices and any engineers that share this passion will have access to the knowledge and experience shared by their team of sustainability engineers and consultants. Your designs won’t just power buildings; they’ll empower communities and ignite a brighter, more sustainable future.

From the perspective of personal development they will support you on your career aspirations, and can work with you to gain CIBSE Chartership if you haven’t already.  For high performing individuals this represents a fantastic opportunity to progress your career to Associate and beyond.

Benefits:

Competitive remuneration package, wellbeing benefits and an Employee Assistance Programme to provide mental wellbeing support, guidance and advice.

Their offices in Abingdon are in a rural setting and consist of a close-knit multidisciplinary team that offers a wonderful working experience.  The entire company works to a hybrid working policy, including flexible hours that help people to achieve a healthy work-life balance.