Thrive on openness, respect and collaboration? Good. Us too. Join as our new Associate Acoustics Consultant.
The purpose of this role is to provide vital support to the success of the acoustics team to deliver our clients projects. We have a number a growing number of exciting projects in the pipeline and are looking to recruit a senior acoustic consultant who can hit the ground running.
Your next role:
- Play a key role as a technical specialist in the Acoustics Group of Buro Happold.
- Deliver technical work from initial design ideas, taking significant personal responsibility for the delivery of work
- Assist in the running of acoustic projects with the Job Leaders
- Deliver highest quality work in a timely manner.
- Maintain good client relations throughout the job.
- Maintaining awareness of project budgets and raising any concerns regarding budgetary or financial issues.
- Ensuring project financial plans are up to date and accurate
- Ensure team members are kept informed of important and relevant service/design decisions.
- Ensuring all necessary BuroHappold staff are informed of relevant client matters.
- Responsible for planning, organising and managing personal workload in order to meet deadlines in line with client commitments.
- Proactively raising concerns regarding workload and ability to meet deadlines.
- Ensuring excellent communication within the team and with other stakeholders.
Your skills and experience:
- Significant experience of engineering acoustics within buildings.
- Demonstrable competence in making noise and vibration measurements. Evidence of appropriate training in the proper use of sound level meters is expected.
- Competence with environmental noise surveys, and the field testing of room and architectural acoustics is expected.
- Adept in the use of acoustic modelling packages is expected – CADNA and CATT Acoustics would be ideal.
- First Degree in Engineering Acoustics, Electro-Acoustics or related disciplines such as Civil or Structural Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Building Services Engineering, Architecture, combination degrees of the former.
- Professionally registered (CEng, IEng) with the Engineering Council UK or equivalent body. Full corporate membership of the Institute of Acoustics is expected.
- Experience as a consultant able to propose multiple solutions to Clients and objectively summarise the benefits and shortfalls of each.
- Must be able to clearly share complex technical ideas and concepts to both technical and non-
technical audiences. - Deep technical experience of architectural/building acoustics, noise control engineering
- Excellent calculation skills and attenuation to detail in checking others’ calculations.
- Inquisitive approach and capable of producing innovative solutions.
- Driven to produce highest quality work that meets customers’ needs – but at a profit.
- Good communication skills both verbal and written.
- Adaptable and prepared to offer a range of services in the long term.
- Ability to accept a degree of responsibility for the department’s success in a team-based organisation,
combined with ability to work independently.
What we offer you:
- Hybrid working arrangements.
- Car allowance (10%) of basic salary
- Attractive salary and benefits package including life assurance and income protection.
- Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements.
- Generous company pension scheme.
- Individual private medical insurance.
- Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts
- Enhanced parenthood leave policies
- 3pm finish on the last Friday of the month
- A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you.
- Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions
- A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring
- An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won’t be far from the exceptional.
A place for everyone
Buro Happold values an individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of how you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.
Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds, and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.
We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment. We are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing differences allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.
Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact recruitment@burohappold.com so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.
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