Associate Mechanical Engineer
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
Our mission: To build, better, more efficient buildings and to set benchmarks for continuing
improvement in international building standards.
We have a collaborative approach that unites the experience and expertise of our people across our international network of offices. Our clients are traditional engineers, architects and those that are involved in changing our built environment with vision and sustainability as the focus.Job DescriptionYou should have the ability to lead projects, engage and effectively communicate with key clients, actively contribute to and manage the delivery of mechanical engineering projects within the building space. You'll join a forward-thinking team, work in a collaborative environment, and will be given opportunities to make real contributions to the company.Responsibilities
- Lead projects and manage key clients
- Assist the mechanical team in tendering projects
- Work effectively alone and as part of the wider MEP team
- Mentor Junior staff
- Undertake Mechanical Building Services design
- Preparation of design calculations in line with industry standards, regulatory compliance, and best practice.
- Preparation of technical specifications, tender documentation, and technical reports.
- Checking design calculations, design drawings and specifications prepared by others on a variety of projects
- Site surveys and inspections
- Manage own workload and workload of others
- Monitor site works
- Preparing and managing fee budgets
- Coordination of services, with a sound understanding of the interfaces and interactions between services, architecture, and structure of buildings.
- Ensure mechanical design quality is maintained
- Ensure delivery of projects within time to budget
- Resource management across the mechanical package
- Minimum BEng or equivalent in Mechanical Engineering or Building services engineering related subject/suitable equivalent experience.
- High level of technical skill in mechanical building services is essential.
- Exceptional skill and knowledge of working in a design consultancy - experience of working within a contractor environment is additionally welcome.
- Significant experience in the production of the Mechanical design across all RIBA Stages 0 to 7, public health experience would be beneficial.
- Capable of accurate work under pressure and able to work on several projects simultaneously.
- Able to understand and express technical concepts effectively both in writing and verbally to clients and team members at various levels of technical understanding.
- Able to innovate new solutions as well as applying existing solutions to problems, able to make decisions, act on own initiative and operate in a pro-active way.
- Good report writing skills, experience of making presentations to and attending meetings with clients and other designers is essential.
- The ability to be willing to be mobile, travel within the UK and abroad for project related work would be beneficial.
- Good level of computer literacy in Windows, Hevacomp, IES, NBS and Microsoft packages - and a working understanding of AutoCAD/Revit is beneficial.