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• Senior/Associate Electrical Engineer

  London - City, EC2

  to £80,000 per annum + benefits

  Permanent

  The Company & Role: This Canadian-born business founded in 1978 has grown to become a global commercial real estate advisory firm employing 5000 people in 120 locations across 20 countries.  This opportunity is for a Senior / Associate level Electrical engineer to join an exciting and successful Building Consultancy team, based in London. You will work on a variety of professional and project work for investors, lenders, occupiers, developers, and the public sector. Their broad client mix offer opportunities for travel around the UK and Europe with exposure to a diverse range of property types. The Mechanical, Electrical & Public Health (MEP) engineering team offer traditional MEP design and consultancy services alongside surveying and project management activities with sustainable solutions at the core of their work. Their expertise ranges across all sectors including office, industrial, retail, education, government, healthcare, aviation, and residential. As part of their succession plan, they are looking for an electrically biased building services engineer who will support the building surveyors in providing building engineering consultancy services that augments and compliments the building surveying and Project Management activities. This is a great opportunity for someone with a background in MEP consulting or design and contracting who is looking to move into a corporate real estate environment. Flexible working arrangements from home and office is available but the applicant must be able and willing to travel to undertake site inspections as part of the role.   Duties & Responsibilities: Design:

  • Be familiar with RIBA Work plan stages, BSRIA BG6(2018) and deliverables required.
  • Understand the requirements and differences between performance design and detail design.
  • Agree briefs with clients to anticipate and identify needs and expectations and develop the job/project brief in conjunction with the team.
  • Prepare and assist in producing feasibility study reports.
  • Work with client and design team to assemble a design specification compliant with the Employer’s requirements, agree its format and content, and ensure delivery by the due date.
  • Agree and monitor scope of works and communicate any changes to the team.
  • Produce calculations for engineering systems as required and ensure proper QA, technical reviews and sign-off are carried out and recorded.
  • Establish the design concepts with the team and determine/agree the programme for the design process.
  • Hold an appreciation of sustainability, net zero carbon and building energy performance issues and ensure that these are taken fully into account in the initial assessment of the job/project and incorporate requirements into job/project delivery.
  • Liaise with the design team and agree the appropriate programme for issuing information to external associated parties.
  • Ensure the team delivers the requisite information to assist with the preparation of the project budget and agree the budget with the team.
  • Carry out periodic review and identify risks affecting overall delivery.
  • Co-ordinate and attend pre-qualification interviews.
  • Review tender documentation and authorise tender issues, review tenders received and advise client on appointment of contractor and liaise between disciplines on multi-functional tenders.
  • Report to the client any variance between the works constructed and the design intent.
  • Ensure appropriate level of site supervision and carry out periodic reviews of construction activity.
  • Ensure relevant schedules of testing/commissioning and snagging are prepared and carried out by suitably qualified personnel and ensure that performance is in line with project guidelines and client requirements.
  • Identify the need for building and site surveys and their relevance to the project and ensure that they are implemented in time to meet the requirements of the project.
  • Manage and monitor site and buildings appraisals and carry out inspections where necessary.
  • Ensure the availability of specialist resource for Computer Aided Design.
  • Follow in full the document control, archiving, CDM and QA processes relevant to job/project work, ensuring reports, correspondence, specifications, drawings, and schedules are issued, and filed in an appropriate manner.
  • Identify client needs and expectations, ensuring they are exceeded.

  Surveying, Dilapidations and Advisory:

  • Carry out/assist with technical due diligence surveys and reports.
  • Be familiar with mechanical, electrical, and public health installations and trends and current code/regulatory requirements.
  • Possess and display a good level of written communication skills with an ability to convey engineering systems clearly and concisely in report format and to a lay person.
  • Prepare feasibility study reports.
  • Hold an appreciation of sustainability, net zero carbon and building energy performance issues and ensure that these are taken fully into account in the initial assessment of the job/project and incorporate requirements into job/project delivery.
  • Understand dilapidation assessments (not essential but preferable)

  Business and Team Functions:

  • Attend and contribute to staff meetings.
  • Deliver jobs/projects to time and budget and evaluate jobs/projects to identify learning for the future.
  • Input to company job/project and resource management processes.
  • Promptly complete and submit timesheets.

    Knowledge, Skills, and Experience: The role is to contribute and assist jobs/projects and deliver excellent service to our clients. The applicant will have obtained, or be working towards, Chartered Engineer status and hold the professional qualifications with bodies such as CIBSE, IET or IMechE (however applicants with proven design experience in the industry may be considered) and can demonstrate experience in the industry for a minimum of 5 years, with a proven ability to work within a team completing engineering reports, detailed design, and site inspections. The applicant is expected to be comfortable with working in a multi-disciplinary Chartered Surveyor/Project Management environment and shall have excellent technical skills allied with the applicant’s relevant experience. The role will require the applicant to be familiar with a range of building services installations and be comfortable surveying and reporting on the general condition and potential remedial works required as part of our due diligence service to our clients. Prior experience in carrying out technical due diligence is not essential but preferable. The applicant will be able to work alone and as part of a team and be able to communicate with clients to provide professional advice in plain English, founded on their wide range of experience in the commercial, retail, healthcare, residential, and leisure sectors. Key attributes will include:

  • Client focus
  • Personal drive coupled with the ability to develop others
  • Leadership
  • Teamwork
  • Communication
  • Enthusiasm and passion for technical quality, learning and knowledge sharing
  • Willingness to help and support individuals
  • Capable of driving best practice and encouraging a culture of knowledge sharing and learning
  • Assertive, both in driving the initiative and harnessing support within the team
  • Promote client care and client facing culture

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• Senior Public Health Engineer

  Berkshire - Maidenhead

  £54 per hour (Inside ir35)

  Contract

  Europe’s leading design, engineering, and regulatory consultancy organisation with c22,000 staff operating from 14 European countries, including 14 UK branches they design, and plan sustainable communities, infrastructure, and environments in 70 countries worldwide generating sales of £2.3 billion.  The organisation is united by a commitment to collaboration, innovation, sustainability, and creating a positive impact on the shape of tomorrow for generations to come. They require an experienced Public Health Project Engineer to join their multidisciplinary Building Services design team in Maidenhead. You will be required to support the delivery of a wide variety of projects for several key clients covering a range of activities from project feasibility through to detailed design and construction support. Responsibilities:

  • Take responsibility for development of practical public health design solutions across a wide variety of challenging and prestigious projects;
  • Close liaison with project teams to produce coherent and coordinated information;
  • Representing the organisation with clients, design teams, and contractors;
  • Investigating new and emerging technologies and applying practically;
  • Provide technical guidance, support and training to colleagues and assist in mentoring and development of others;
  • Taking responsibility for production of high-quality Revit and AutoCAD work;
  • Quality Control for CAD/BIM production and adherence to company CAD/BIM standards;
  • To be able to work in close collaboration and co-ordinate activities with project managers, team leaders, team members, and other disciplines and have an appreciation of their role;
  • To work in both supervised and unsupervised environments ensuring that the technical content of all work carried out is correct and carried out in accordance within agreed timescales and within agreed budgets;
  • Complying with project and Client protocols;
  • To adhere to the company Health and Safety Policy.

  Professional Membership and Qualifications:

  • Degree or equivalent in relevant engineering discipline;
  • Progressing towards or membership of an appropriate professional body (desirable).

  Qualities:

  • Experience of Public Health design to British Standards and within a UK consultancy or contractor environment;
  • Ability to develop technical design schematics and layout drawings, supported by engineering calculations;
  • Experience of confidently managing production of design information in both 2D and 3D environments;
  • Ideally an excellent working knowledge of Revit and AutoCAD;
  • Able to communicate in a fluent and positive manner with other team members and to produce reports in plain English;
  • Ability to work on own initiative and seek assistance when required;
  • Ability to organise and prioritise workload to ensure that timescales are met;
  • Good problem solving/contingency planning skills with ability to find quick, innovative and practical solutions;
  • Take responsibility for your personal development and enable and support the learning of others;
  • Effective negotiation and persuasion skills, ability to manage and diffuse challenging situations;
  • Project a professional image to clients and colleagues;
  • Able to work collaboratively with others to form strong positive working relationships with colleagues, clients and contractors;
  • Able to recognise own impact on others and adapt approach where appropriate;
  • Demonstrate pride in work, through accurate timely delivery;
  • Attention to detail;
  • Willingness to adopt new technology and practice.

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• Revit Technician

  London - Camden, NW1

  to £45,000 per annum + benefits

  Permanent

  Our client is a privately owned building services consultancy established in 1987. They have experienced steady growth by providing first class project delivery and now consist of a team of 75 multi-disciplinary Building Services Engineers. They are looking for a Revit Technician to work on a diverse project portfolio, including masterplan regeneration projects, mixed use residential and commercial schemes, hotels, and medical centres. To be considered for this role applicants will have:

  • 2 years REVIT experience in a commercial working environment.
  • Using Revit MEP to create complex 3D building systems and geometries for mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire alarm, IT, containment and fire protection systems.
  • Working from Engineer’s mark-up's and sketches under minimum supervision to produce MEP drawings in Revit MEP and CAD as appropriate to each project.
  • Proven hands-on Experience of Autodesk Building Design Suite, which includes Revit
  • Practical knowledge of 3D BIM/REVIT
  • Excellent knowledge of AutoCAD 2D
  • Familiar with UK building regulations.

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