Mechanical Design Engineer - Building Services

Our client is a building services engineering design consultancy and they are looking for a mechanical building services design engineer with experience of working for a design consultancy to join their building and infrastructure team. The role will be based out of their Essex office.  

As a mechanical engineer within the building services team, you will be involved in a range of small to large projects. The role will be challenging, demanding, varied, and offer opportunities for skill set and career development.The candidate will be self-motivated and capable of delivering high quality designs with the minimum of supervision, to time and budget. . Our client wants to recruit a candidate who will help build client relationships through excellent project delivery and communication skills to help in generation of more work from their existing clients.  

Job Description:  

The key elements of the role are (but not limited to);  

Managing the delivery of assigned Building Services projects.  

Working and liaising with associated engineering disciplines as part of delivering projects.  

Managing external stakeholders, ensuring client satisfaction and pursuing and promoting opportunities with potential and established clients.  

Management of internal stakeholders.  

Carrying out design and calculation work using relevant industry software (i.e. IES, Revit, Hevacomp) and supervise the work of other engineers.  

Developing, maintaining and monitoring programmes for scheduling and reporting on deliverables across specific projects.  

Maximising profitability of projects, monitoring against budget, reacting and anticipating potential problems and communicating in line with client expectations.  

Demonstrating technical expertise, providing in depth knowledge and leadership whilst proactively coaching and developing more junior team members.  

As a senior member of the team you will apply your business development knowledge to identify and support work winning strategies to help grow the size and capability of the team.  

Requirements:  

An experienced mechanical engineer Chartered or near Chartered Engineer  

Ability to produce bespoke building services designs to British Standards  

Experience working in or with a multi-disciplinary environment  

Demonstrable experience of mechanical building services design  

Experience of working in the UK  

Experience of working in various projects sectors including education; industrial; performance venues; retail; rail; healthcare; and commercial.  

Able to communicate effectively (written and verbal) at all levels both internally and externally  

Willing to mentor younger engineers