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: Innovative, ambitious, and rapidly expanding technical asset management consultancy that specialises in making existing buildings sustainable. They help landlords and property managers map risk, plan for, and transition portfolios of buildings to net-zero carbon as cost-effectively as possible. They adopt a unique approach that combines building services engineering with dynamic simulation modelling, energy engineering, and their own bespoke data analysis software. They work with global investment funds and property companies and support the management of over 1 million m2 of predominantly commercial real estate assets and employ more than 20 staff. Their head office is in the West Midlands but many of the teamwork 100% remotely and are required to travel across the UK to visit buildings. Travel to head office including an overnight stay to attend team meetings is required once every two months. Role: As part of their continuing growth strategy and to help support the comprehensive range of services they provide for building owners they are looking to appoint a mechanically biased Building Services Design Engineer to their projects team. Responsibilities:
You will take a leading role in multiple projects with the design and production of information relating to electrical building services installation in a range of project types. You will represent the business on-site and at client meetings, and prepare high-quality information including technical specifications, designs, schematics, equipment schedules, and survey reports. You will deliver projects across a wide range of sectors including heritage, healthcare, education, and social housing, as well as bespoke residential developments and places of worship, mainly located across Southeast England. In order to fulfill this role, you need to have a good working knowledge of various types of electrical installations, an understanding of Building Regulations and relevant British Standards and related guidance, and a keen interest in buildings, energy, and creating high-quality working and living environments. Qualifications: • A minimum of HNC/HND in Building Services Engineering or a directly related discipline. • A minimum of five years post-qualification experience. • Current registration with the Engineering Council UK. • Current membership of at least one relevant professional institution. • Current full UK driving license and the use of a vehicle for business. Competence: • Preparing design drawings using AutoCAD 2022. • Undertaking electrical design calculations using Trimble Pro-design. • Carrying out lighting design calculations using Relux or Dialux. • The use of Microsoft 365, including SharePoint, OneDrive, Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams. Experience: • Ability to assist our clients with the development of a brief defining design requirements and follow up with managing client expectations from inception to completion of each project. • Sufficient experience to quickly develop realistic conceptual designs, schematics, and detailed designs in order to assist fellow professionals with shaping the building design at an early stage. • You should be able to produce substantiation calculations to demonstrate that designs will perform as required. • A good understanding of the practicalities of the installation of electrical building services systems. • An awareness and understanding of the purpose and principles of a range of mechanical building services systems. • Proactive approach to communicating with other technicians and engineers within the practice to produce carefully considered and well-coordinated engineering design drawings and written specifications. • On a daily basis, provide support and advice to staff, deal with client-related issues and provide professional services as required. • Thorough understanding and working knowledge of current legislative requirements and design standard standards influencing electrical services design, especially BS7671 and related guidance. • Actively participate in our QA process through peer review and checking the work undertaken by junior members of the team, providing constructive feedback on improving the quality of their work and supporting them to broaden their knowledge and develop their understanding. • Understanding and awareness of RIBA Plan of Work. • Manage projects against time, cost, and quality requirements. Character: • A bright and enthusiastic outlook and positive attitude. • Excellent verbal and written communication skills. • Well-developed proactive interpersonal skills which suit a client-facing role. • The desire to work as an important and valued part of a close-knit team.