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• Senior Public Health Engineer

  London - London Bridge, SE1

  £65,000 per annum + benefits

  Permanent

  ROLE OVERVIEW:

  The Senior Public Health Engineers role will involve ensuring the completion of projects by actively driving design initiatives, acting as a key point of contact and information, developing designs and working through calculations.  The Public Health Engineer shall demonstrate excellent skills in engineering design and be experienced working on projects from inception to completion without supervision across various sectors (notably but not limited to commercial and residential). The Public Health Engineer will be involved all aspects of design for Public Health and Fire Protection engineering across all our project sectors. In addition to the above, they will also be responsible for improving our quality control and standards, working within a team and by helping our business develop. They will design, manage and deliver the public health design in accordance with all codes and practices/standards, delivering professional and positive service within a team environment.

  DETAILED RESPONSIBILITIES

  Design

  • Design safe, economical and reliable Public Health systems (including designing below ground drainage systems, blue roof drain systems, soil and waste systems, hot and cold-water domestic services, rainwater disposal systems (including harvesting, attenuation), fire protection systems, gas system design) to meet the contractual scope of work and comply with the applicable standards and regulations.
  • Development and preparation of Public Health design calculations, drawings, specifications, and tender documents to define Public Health systems.
  • Preparation of outline scheme report / technical content of the design information.
  • Check tender submissions, drawings and technical submittals to ensure quality of products and equipment are in accordance with design.
  • Coordinate Public Health design with other disciplines (e.g. architectural, structural, mechanical and electrical) to minimise conflicts and avoid costly revisions.
  • Attend site to undertake acquisition surveys on behalf of the client culminating in detailed report.
  • Attend site to survey existing Public Health systems in relation to project refurbishments.
  • Attend site during construction and review Public Health systems for quality and compliance where appointed to do so.
  • Undertake site visits and monitor progress against the design with minimal supervision.
  • Assist subcontractors to ensure compliance with drawings and specifications and resolve problems during construction.
  • Undertake peer reviews on Public Health systems on a variety of projects designed by others.
  • Able to complete internal audits of Public Health designs performed by others.

  Management

  • Be aware of design deliverables on each project, the agreed fee/programme, and be able to work within those parameters when delivering Public Health design.
  • Monitor workload against deliverables at regular intervals.
  • Work cohesively and positively with the other members of the internal and external team when delivering the Public Health design.
  • Attend design workshops and design team meetings where appropriate in relation to the Public Health design.
  • Be a focal point of knowledge and help to other engineers looking to improve their knowledge in Public Health design.
  • Assist with planning work schedules to meet project programmes.
  • Provide regular updates to line manager.
  • Utilise a high level of oral and written communication (report writing, in particular) to ensure clarity of communication both internally and externally.
  • Build relationships and contacts with potential sources of new work, maintain existing relationships.
  • On occasion assist with the delivery of presentations and pitches.
  • Coordinate with other discipline engineers as applicable for the continuity of the design process.
  • Attend progress, design team and coordination meetings where required.
  • Provide input to pre-qualification and selection of contractors, respond to tender queries, comment and review tender returns.
  • Obtain the necessary information from stakeholders both internally and externally (e.g. Architects, Quantity Surveyors and Design Consultants) to enable the design to proceed.
  • Lead on all Public Health design related activities both internally and externally to their resolution.
  • Identify and meet effectively the requirements and expectations of clients.
  • Provide support at all stages of the design process on related projects, in particular bring specialist insight into the concept design stage to ensure the subsequent design stages are developed with a winning strategy and appropriate level of innovation.

  Health & Safety

  • Ensure adherence to H&S standards and requirements at all times and ensure that all activities are performed in a safe manner.
  • Demonstrate a sound understanding of the CDM Regulations and their implementation when carrying out all duties.
  • Be able to formulate design risk assessments relating to Public Health services from inception through each design stage.
  • Use and maintain appropriate PPE.
  • Report all accidents/incidents or near misses.

  Quality Assurance

  • Ensure the relevant QA procedures are followed.
  • Maintain, develop and retain the highest appropriate standard of technical skill.
  • Ensure the project work complies with the Project Management Plan and Programme.

  Technical

  • Demonstrate an understanding of BSRIA BG6 2018, RIBA stages, Part L, BREEAM, renewable technologies and soft landings, and their implications to each stage of the Public Health design process.
  • Demonstrate a reasonable understanding of other MEP engineering disciplines, other than your own, sufficient to understand their impact in the overall design, and converse at a reasonable level.
  • Develop ability to use AutoCAD and Revit.
  • Undertake Continual Professional Development by reading technical journals, attending relevant IEE/CIBSE technical seminars from time to time and attending in house seminars aimed at increasing technical and operational knowledge.

  Financial

  • Develop understanding of project costing principles and control changes during project development.
  • May on occasion assist with preparation of fee proposals.
  • Maintain required level of utilisation and complete timesheet on a weekly basis.
  • Keep line manager up to date with progress against deliverables and identify where and why time deadlines cannot be met.
  • Utilise Union Square to populate project information, manage resource, include financial information and monitor progress relating the Public Health Design.

  Project Interface

  • Attend design team and client meetings, on occasion as the company’s only representative.
  • Liaise with clients and others to obtain technical and operational information relating to the projects.
  • Keep project documentation up-to-date and comply with file management protocols.

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• Principal/Associate Electrical Engineer

  London - NC1 - Kings Cross

  to £69,000 per annum + CA + benefits

  Permanent

  We have an opportunity for a Principal/Associate Electrical Engineer to join an award-winning engineering consultancy.  To become part of a creative team of engineers, designers, and technical specialists providing innovative solutions to complex engineering and design challenges for buildings. Working alongside the Team Leader, you will be facing clients, responding to clients’ needs, developing, and producing reports, specifications and guidance or overseeing testing and commissioning activities. Providing a full range of MEP, environmental and sustainability services, bringing buildings to life and ensuring that they perform in operation as well as they look. What You’ll Be Doing:

  • You will be working on a varied portfolio of projects both in the UK and Internationally.
  • Providing technical advice to clients on the operation of electrical/mechanical engineering services in existing buildings
  • Preparing Fee Proposals
  • Delivering refurbishment and upgrade projects from inception to completion
  • Undertaking condition surveys of electrical/mechanical installations and producing written reports and recommendations
  • Developing and producing electrical/mechanical designs and specifications, ensuring quality and technical quality standards are met
  • Production of Feasibility Studies for electrical/mechanical infrastructure replacement or upgrade
  • Technical Due Diligence Reporting
  • Ensuring that all work under their control is undertaken to relevant and applicable UK and EU regulations, design guides etc.
  • Review of development and fit-out proposals and advising client on the implications in relation to the electrical/mechanical services
  • You will have the opportunity to lead electrical services design on large projects, and lead overall MEP on small to medium sized projects within the office,
  • Responsible for dealing successfully with Clients and other professionals
  • Awareness of consultant appointment conditions
  • Define and agree brief with Client
  • Manage and prioritise the workload of a project team including specialist groups.
  • Host and chair internal project team meetings
  • Contribute to the professional development of individual team members.
  • Actively leads self and identifies opportunities and providing support for career development of others
  • Ensure quality standards and technical accuracy is delivered.
  • Reporting cost and resource requirements to the team leader on a regular basis.

  What We Are Looking For:

  • Excellent technical knowledge in Electrical Design Engineering thorough understanding of Building Services Engineering and interdisciplinary design through all stages of the design process
  • Good experience in use of standards and codes applied in building services
  • Wiring Regulations; Fire Detection Systems; General and Emergency Lighting design knowledge.
  • Ability to undertake MEP building services surveys with minimal supervision
  • Ability to peer review in detail with good level of background knowledge of regulatory / standards documentation.
  • Acquainted with, and can deliver, parallel projects of all types, sizes and through various RIBA stages
  • Can undertake essential calculations, maximum demands, typical Wm2 and apply electrical theory.
  • Good understanding of 3 phase LV systems with reasonable to good understanding of HV systems.
  • At least some experience working on projects in existing buildings.
  • Ability to develop good relationships with Clients, Project Managers, Managing Agents, and Contractors
  • Previous consultancy experience: you will appreciate the importance of complementary specialisms such as acoustics, fire engineering and computer modelling in the design of buildings
  • Autonomous approach: able to lead small to medium sized projects and able to take a brief from the project lead on large projects and deliver & control the tasks required
  • Responsible for the quality of our outputs
  • Appreciation of client needs, with ability to face clients
  • Ability to identity when outsourcing is required e.g., design & CAD work
  • Understand and identify resource needs
  • Mentor and supervise junior members of staff
  • Chartered engineer or close to

  Core benefits:

  • Car Allowance
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Income protection
  • Travel allowance
  • Electrical car scheme
  • 25 days annual leave, increasing to 30 with length of service
  • Contributory pension scheme
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Enhanced Paternity, Maternity & Shared Parental Leave
  • Season Ticket Loans
  • Professional membership subscription
  • Flexitime

  Flexible benefits:

  • 9-day fortnight – the firm offers all employees the option to work a 9-day fortnight
  • Hybrid Working – activity-based approach
  • Employee stock purchase plan – a voluntary program which allows eligible employees to purchase common stock at a 15% discount

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• Associate Director

  Remote - West Midlands

  to £75,000 per annum + benefits

  Permanent

  Client: Building Services engineering consultancy offering a wide array of strategic and technical skills and services. These range from building digital twins to traditional mechanical, electrical, and public health (MEP) advice and design. This unique combination helps asset owners and managers move from simply setting sustainability targets to achieving real, net-zero outcomes. They are an innovative and forward-thinking company involved in unique software development and research partnerships with local universities. Role: Seeking to recruit an ambitious and talented individual to help the directors lead on the next phase of rapid growth as a company. The Associate Director will take an active role in developing the business and services, managing and prioritising client requirements as well as lead and develop a small but rapidly growing team of digital engineering and sustainability consultants. A key remit of the job will be to ensure that all IES modelling outputs are accurate and to the highest standards. The successful applicant will also be able to balance the legislative requirements with the innovative thinking required to meet and beat the net zero carbon challenge in existing buildings. The role will also require experience and knowledge of ApacheHVAC, an understanding of how buildings really operate and experience in delivering BREEAM credits. They are a delivery partner for NABERS UK and the successful applicant will take a key role in shaping their service offer in relation to this new rating system and how it interacts with EPC requirements. Their conceptual designs are highly likely to be implemented in the assets they support which makes this a unique and exciting opportunity to see projects through from concept to full operation and to play a key role in the drive to achieve real net-zero. Responsibilities:

  • Use their initiative with minimal supervision
  • Accurately interpret client instructions and be confident in multi-stakeholder discussions
  • Manage multiple projects and deadlines in a proactive and coordinated manner ensuring deadlines are met and any crises are dealt with calmly and decisively.
  • Supervise and manage a high-performing team; helping them develop their skills.
  • Identify and lead on business development opportunities.
  • Issue clear and concise client-facing reports and technical documents.

  Essential skills:

  • A degree in engineering or the sciences (BEng or BSc)
  • Three years' experience in IES VE
  • CIBSE Level 5 (EPC/BRUKL) accreditation
  • Awareness of NABERS UK
  • Experience of producing some or all of the following:

  1. BREEAM technical credits (ENE, HEA04 etc.)
  2. BRUKL reports and energy strategies
  3. NZC/Energy audits
  4. Life Cycle Cost (LCC) planning
  5. Life Cycle Assessment calculations

  Desirable skills:

  • MCIBSE
  • MEI Chartered Energy Manager
  • CEng or IEng
  • IES VE Apache HVAC
  • ESOS Lead Assessor
  • BREEAM Assessor

  Benefits: The successful candidate will have the opportunity to play a key role in the development of a fast growing and innovative company that values high-quality outputs and works with blue-chip clients such as Abrdn, Fidelity International and JLL. They will also be able to push the boundaries of where engineering consultancy ends and sustainability consultancy begins as we enter an exciting and important decade for the sustainable operation and management of portfolios of existing buildings.

  • CPD, internal and external training, supported professional and career development
  • 25 days annual leave per year plus public holiday entitlement
  • Pension scheme and health care after the qualifying period
  • Discretionary bonus
  • Salary commensurate with experience
  • Flexible working
  • Headquarters in a beautiful regional area of economic growth with affordable house prices and a relaxed lifestyle perfect for anyone wishing to escape the city.

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