An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to join one of the UK’s leading independent Building Services consultancies.

With a strong reputation for delivering innovative, sustainable engineering solutions, this award-winning consultancy works across a diverse portfolio including healthcare, education, commercial, residential, industrial, pharmaceutical and public sector developments.

You’ll become part of a collaborative, people-focused business where technical excellence, professional development and long-term career progression are genuinely valued. Working within an established multidisciplinary team, you’ll have the opportunity to lead projects, mentor engineers and play an active role in delivering low-carbon building solutions across the UK.

 Role:

 As a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer, you’ll take ownership of mechanical building services design projects from concept through to completion, working closely with clients, architects and fellow engineers.

You’ll enjoy a varied workload across multiple sectors while taking an active role in client relationships, technical delivery and project leadership.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading the mechanical design of building services projects.
• Managing project delivery from feasibility through construction.
• Acting as Project Lead on selected commissions.
• Producing and reviewing mechanical calculations, specifications and technical reports.
• Attending design meetings and presenting directly to clients.
• Supporting and mentoring junior engineers.
• Working collaboratively with multidisciplinary design teams.
• Helping develop long-term client relationships and generate repeat business.
• Delivering innovative, sustainable engineering solutions across a wide range of projects.

 Requirements:

 We’re looking for an ambitious Mechanical Building Services Engineer who enjoys technical design, client interaction and taking ownership of projects.

Ideally you’ll have:

• Degree, HNC or HND in Mechanical or Building Services Engineering.
• Around 4+ years’ experience within a Building Services consultancy.
• Experience designing mechanical systems across a range of building sectors.
• Working knowledge of UK Building Regulations and relevant British Standards.
• Experience using industry-standard design software including Revit and associated mechanical design packages.
• An understanding of sustainable building design, renewable technologies and low-carbon solutions.
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative approach.
• Working towards, or already holding, Chartered Engineer status through CIBSE or IMechE.

Offer:

•  Competitive salary
• Hybrid and agile working
• Excellent structured career progression
• Exposure to technically challenging, high-profile projects
• Enhanced family-friendly benefits
• Generous annual leave with the option to buy or sell additional days
• Electric vehicle and Cycle to Work schemes
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Professional development and support towards Chartership
• A genuinely supportive culture where your ideas and career ambitions are encouraged

This is an excellent opportunity for a Senior Mechanical Engineer looking to join a progressive consultancy where sustainability, innovation and employee development are central to the business.

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 Mechanical Engineer to join their Operational Assets team, based in their Birmingham 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.

Overview:

International, independent, multi-disciplinary consultancy delivering engineering, sustainability and design excellence across the built environment. With a strong global presence spanning the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific and Australia, they work with some of the world’s leading architects, developers and asset owners to create buildings and infrastructure that are innovative, resilient and future-ready.

This client is an award-winning global consultancy that has been named Building’s Engineering Consultant of the Year in 2024, 2022 and 2021. They are at the forefront of the industry, priding themselves on an exemplary track record of designing innovative and sustainable projects.

Sustainability runs through everything they do, and their people are empowered to drive change and decarbonise the built environment. By the end of this decade, they have set an ambitious goal to only work on projects that meet their zero carbon design criteria, a commitment they have called their Zero Carbon Design 2030 goal. They need engineers who share this passion for sustainability and thrive in designing energy efficient buildings and communities.

Their Building Services team are a source of world leading expertise and offer a pro-active and collaborative approach to skill development, and professional excellence.

The Role:

This is an excellent opportunity for skilled electrical engineer to join their team in Birmingham and play a key role in ensuring the successful delivery of innovative electrical design solutions for some of the most exciting building projects in the UK and internationally.

Working across a variety of sectors including Government, Critical Systems, Healthcare, Workplace and Residential, you will work in a team of expert engineers and technicians and work closely with colleagues of various disciplines to help manage the delivery of technically-excellent, profitable projects for high profile public and private clients.

You’ll have the opportunity over time to assume greater levels of responsibility and autonomy as your professional skills develop and with accredited professional development programmes from CIBSE and IET, you’ll be fully supported towards achieving chartership.

You will be working in a team that work collaboratively, have a high-performance culture and believe that each member is vital to the team, office and business. Working with the team leaders areas of development will be agreed targeted, providing exposure to facets of engineering that will help you develop your skill set.

Qualifications:

Educated to degree level in Electrical or Building Services Engineering (MEng or BEng or equivalent), and having gained relevant experience within a consultancy environment (design and coordination of electrical distribution and power generation, lighting, security systems etc), you should be well versed in the use of relevant design software including ProDesign (Amtech) and ideally, Revit and Dialux.

You have proven ability in producing low energy design solutions, carrying out site inspections and surveys, detail design development, and crucially – you have a passion for creative and intuitive design.

Given the collaborative and client focused nature of this role, excellent communication skills and experience of using your initiative to overcome challenges are essential.

A professional that has a collaborative outlook, helping themselves and team to deliver.

This is an exciting opportunity to build and develop existing clients and projects for a national Mechanical, Electrical and Public Health consultancy servicing projects in the Northern regions of England. Projects will range from £5m-150m in value within sectors which include hotels, commercial, industrial, education and leisure (some of largest MEP projects currently in the UK).

Our client is looking for someone who can oversea the current northern projects. This would suit an ambitious and outgoing engineer with a proven track record of driving their current business forward. They offer excellent work-life balance, and plenty of progression. With the support, assistance, and guidance from their live offices you will be given the opportunity to further strengthen the team enabling the delivery of exceptional projects.

The role:

• Maintaining key client relationships
• Business development/Identify new opportunities/clients and dealing with project tenders
• Leading and managing the technical development of internal team
• Coordinate with senior team members to ensure continuous development of junior staff
• Oversee internal resourcing and work with other internal departments
• Oversee project delivery from feasibility through to construction stage
• Ensure projects delivered are profitable and in-line with client brief
• Project management across multiple sectors
• Coordinate with internal teams and external – Clients, Architects, Contractors, Consultants etc
• Oversee technical design throughout project lifecycle
• Attend client and progress meetings throughout various phases of projects
• Site inspections reporting back to design team

Experience:

• 5 + years experience
• Preferably Chartered or working towards chartership
• Degree in Engineering or industry related qualification
• UK Building Services Consultancy experience
• A good understanding of electrical, mechanical, sustainability and public health aspects
• Adhering to relevant British Standards/Regs and Codes of Practice
• Working with partners within the wider business to meet company objectives
• Managing client relationships and develop new relationships
• Up to date with Health and Safety and Environment Policy.

Join a leading multidisciplinary consultancy that provides mechanical and electrical engineering services to a wide range of clients and market sectors. It is an award-winning company that is large enough to provide stability and opportunity, but small enough to recognise its people as individuals.

They currently seek an intermediate electrical design engineer with building services experience to join the existing MEP team that provides engineering support to a number of Blue-Chip International Brands.

Experience within the commercial/industrial, retail, residential, and education sectors are essential.  Experience in automotive and clean/dry rooms is desirable.

The successful candidate will be responsible, under the leadership of the Associate Director/Senior Engineer, for the internal day-to-day management of small to medium-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 for electrical services, working with other team members and project teams together with direct liaison with the client and other design team professionals.

The role will involve: 

• 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.
• Exhibit active project risk management.
• Peer review and check design information prepared by others.
• Manage a project-specific team of engineers.
• Manage their own workload to meet defined targets and deadlines.
• Allocate and manage project-specific workload of Graduates, Project Engineers, and Admin staff.
• Manage commercial aspects of projects they are working on including responsibility for the 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, staff Performance and Development Reviews and mentoring of staff.

In order to be considered for this role you will have:

• Minimum 3 years of building services consultancy design experience.
• A degree qualification – Electrical or building services (Chartered or working towards). An HNC or HND with suitable design experience will also be considered.
• Client interaction skills.
• Software design ideally including Microsoft Office, Amtech, Dialux and Autodesk Revit MEP.
• Knowledge of British standards, building regulations documents, etc.
• Professional membership (CIBSE, IET, IMechE).

They are offering an internal mentoring and training program aimed at developing the individual as well as the “Engineer” with a view to progression to Chartered Engineer (CEng) status.