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• Principal/Associate Mechanical Engineer – Operational Assets

  West Midlands - Birmingham

  to £65,000 per annum + benefits

  Permanent

  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.

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• Senior Mechanical Engineer

  London - Clapham, SW11

  to £65,000 per annum + benefits

  Permanent

  Our client is an award-winning international studio for architecture and integrated design, with headquarters in London, and 14 offices worldwide employing c1400 people.  They have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to be part of their multidisciplinary engineering team in London. You will be required to work within a team to develop the successful projects through clear strategy and proactive commitment nationally and internationally. This is a fantastic opportunity with a top tier firm working on some of the most prestigious projects in the world which include projects in aviation, highrise, and pharmaceutical sectors. Responsibilities:

  • Represent the company in professional and diligent manner always
  • To provide discipline leadership
  • To adhere to the design process and undertake mechanical engineering design activities relating to the project
  • To fulfil the Practice’s overall objective in producing first class architecture and engineering on time and on budget
  • To have thorough knowledge of, and comply with, company procedures and standards
  • Review and management of project from inception to post construction duties
  • Good knowledge of relevant legislations, standards, regulations, guides and good practise
  • To have thorough knowledge of and compliance with company procedures and standards
  • To contribute and assist, as required by the Project Leader or Senior Partner, or nominated Engineer.

  Qualities and skills required:

  • Able to demonstrate ability to undertake the above responsibilities
  • Legally able to work in the country in which the position is based
  • Qualified as or working towards becoming a Chartered Engineer
  • Solid technical understanding of own core engineering discipline and the role of the mechanical engineer within the design team
  • Broad understanding of other engineering disciplines engaged in the design of the built environment
  • Good understanding of UK Building Regulations and industry standard design reference material
  • Ability to use initiative in response to demands of project
  • Able to negotiate and communicate well in graphical, written or verbal forms including ability to listen and to understand others
  • Ability to understand and formulate design decisions
  • A flexible and open attitude towards new ways of working and a proven commitment to independent, lifelong learning
  • Self-organized and motivated
  • Developed problem-solving and analytical skills
  • Good interpersonal skills and able to work independently and as part of an effective team
  • Able to build good relationships at all levels, internally and externally
  • Resilient to cope with conflicting demands, able to prioritise duties and work effectively under pressure
  • Ability to use Autodesk Revit and Microsoft ‘Office’ suite

  Desirable:

  • International project experience
  • LEED qualified or having working familiarity with environmental assessment methods such as LEED/BREEAM/WELL etc.
  • Broad understanding of sustainable design and the role of HVAC systems design in the built environment with some knowledge on MEP embodied carbon
  • Familiarity with ASHRAE design standards, including 55, 62.1, 90.1 etc.
  • Ability to use some of the following software applications: IES, Adobe Creative Suite
  • Coding in python, dynamo, grasshopper, C+

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• Senior Public Health Engineer

  London - Islington, N1

  to £70,000 per annum + benefits

  Permanent

  Work for a leading engineering consultancy specialising in Building Services.   Join a team of experienced engineers and designers providing innovative and sustainable solutions for a range of projects across various sectors, including commercial, residential, education, healthcare, and industrial in the UK and Internationally.  You will have the opportunity to lead and contribute to the success of their exciting and challenging projects, while working with a dynamic and innovative team that makes a positive impact on the built environment. The Role:

  • Design, manage and supervise assigned projects, establish client brief, technical requirements, scope of works, cost plans, and agree deliverables.
  • Liaise with the design team to produce sustainable co-ordinated designs for plumbing, water supply, drainage, and sanitation systems in a variety of buildings.
  • Produce concept and detailed Public Health design drawings, and prepare specifications, reports, and schedules.
  • Site supervision to completion, ensuring projects are undertaken in accordance with design briefs, budgets, and completion deadlines.
  • Ensure compliance with British Standards, Building Regulations, CIBSE Guidelines, regulations, and industry standards.
  • Work as a part of a collaborative multidisciplinary team, establish rapport, maintain excellent client and project team relationships, and provide positive contribution to design/project meetings.

  Requirements: You should have extensive experience in the following systems and their applications in a variety of project settings:

  • Domestic hot and cold water systems
  • Grey and rainwater harvesting systems
  • Above & below ground foul/waste water/drainage
  • Irrigation systems
  • Fire protection systems
  • Gas systems

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