Senior Mechanical Engineer

Our client is a major design, engineering and project management consultancy who has been rapidly growing within various sectors. They are looking for an experienced, motivated Senior / Principal Mechanical Building Services Design Engineer seeking to develop their career in a positive environment and join their team where talent is encouraged and growth opportunities unrivalled. They have openings in their Bristol office to join a national delivery team and work with designers all across the UK and internationally.  

Responsibilities for this role include:  

- Ensuring an understanding of project briefs.  

- Design and specification of all Mechanical Building Services systems - heating, cooling, ventilation, domestic services, drainage calculations etc.  

- Carry out (and managing of others), in the production of detailed calculations using industry standard software tools such as IES etc.  

- Preparing technical specifications using NBS.  

- Work in partnership with their international Global Technology Centre to add value to building services projects where appropriate.  

- Collaborate with their BIM team to prepare models and drawings, with a working understanding of Autodesk Revit.  

- Representing the business at meetings with clients and contractors.  

- site surveys, inspections and monitor site works.  

- Report and technical note writing.  

- Maintaining complete records and archives to company standards.  

- Adherence to all quality, environmental & governance processes.  

- Managing own workload, updating forward plan of workload regularly and working to time allocations.  

- Managing elements of project delivery and an understanding of budget costings.  

- Reviewing progress, including reporting any anomalies and changes of scope to the project lead.  

- Assist with technical development of junior staff.

- Degree qualified, or equivalent qualification, in Building Services Engineering / Electrical Engineering or related subjects.  

- Chartered Engineer with CIBSE or IMechE or working towards chartership.  

- Good level of computer literacy in IES, NBS and Microsoft packages.  

- Familiar with energy reduction methods and approaches to decarbonising new and existing buildings.  

- Some knowledge of energy related contracts and funding mechanisms such as SALIX.  

- Understanding of energy and carbon related data capture and analytics.  

- Awareness of the principles of building physics such as passive design solutions and fabric first approaches.  

- Competent in designing for measurement and verification, including experience of commissioning and post installation evaluation of performance.  

- Experience of working in a design consultancy and/or experience of working within a contractor design environment is essential.  

- Detailed knowledge of appropriate technical standards.  

- Able to take charge of project deliverables, 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 is essential.  

- Comfortable working within time and cost budgets as agreed at project briefing meetings.  

- Undertake any other reasonable tasks or duties as required by the management team from time to time, in order to maintain flexibility in the organisation.  

- Due to the nature of projects, you must be eligible for security clearance and will be required to undergo a security vetting process.