Buro Happold is recruiting for a Principal or Associate level Electrical Engineer to join our award winning and dynamic Building Environments team in our Bath office.
This role is suited to a candidate from a Buildings background looking for an opportunity to pursue industry leading designs within a vibrant multi-disciplinary practice.
This role is suited to a candidate from a Buildings background looking for an opportunity to pursue industry leading designs within a vibrant multi-disciplinary practice.
This role will see you leading MEP projects, along with inputting to, and assisting with leading the electrical team on projects in the Bath area and further afield, amongst which include residential buildings, research facilities, higher education buildings, mixed use developments, and refurbishments. We are ideally looking for a versatile candidate who wants to play an active role in technical delivery, project management, mentorship / line management, and business development.
You'll be collaborating with a wider UK MEP team of over 125 Engineers and Technicians, and drawing upon the diverse skills and knowledge of other connected disciplines, including sustainability, building physics, fire engineering, facades, lighting, technology, and more. This role will give you a wide breadth of technical exposure and enable you to push boundaries the boundaries of sustainable design.
This is an opportunity to join a talented CIBSE award winning team renowned for achieving outstanding building performance.
What sort of projects could I work on?
The role could see you working as a mechanical designer in a large project team or being a project engineer on smaller schemes. You will be working on some of the most technically challenging projects in our portfolio - recent examples include The Refurbishment of the Fry Building, Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus, Tottenham Hotspur Football Club , Olaya Metro Station, and Woolwich Arsenal Cultural District.
The role:
This role will see you technically and creatively challenged on some of the most interesting developments in the South West and further afield. Teamwork and a collaborative approach are key to any project at Buro Happold, so your strong communication skills and passion to succeed with others will serve you well.
This key role will have a variety of day-to-day responsibilities including:
- Contribute to leading the electrical team and take a project leadership role as required.
- Communicating directly with Clients, offering innovative design solutions and managing expectations. Further developing relationships with existing and new clients including contractors, architects and developers.
- Preparing technical and financial proposals for new work.
- Managing workload of engineers and technicians
- Preparing Technical Specifications.
- Monitor financial performance of jobs as well as setting up and managing job/project administrative systems, including planning and monitoring job resourcing/expenditure.
Skills & Experience:
As a talented building services engineer, it is expected that you would be able to demonstrate
- Extensive electrical design experience in an MEP consultancy, with experience acting as project leader.
- Diverse sector experience, ideally with large scale project experience.
- Strong interpersonal and organisational skills, able to develop relationships with clients, architects and other team members.
- Bachelors or master’s degree in engineering
- Professionally registered with a relevant institution; e.g. CIBSE, IMechE, etc.
- Although electrically biased it is expected that you will have a good understanding of other design disciplines.
- A Bachelor’s degree BEng/BSc or Master’s degree MEng/MSc in a relevant discipline.
Why Buro Happold?
From helping shape entire cities to adapting infrastructure to deal with the climate emergency, a career at Buro Happold presents the chance to make a difference. With a world class reputation, our creativity and our people have delivered positive change to clients, the environment, and communities. If you want to be part of something bigger, this is your chance.
What we offer:
- Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum, exclusive of Bank Holidays.
- Hybrid working arrangements.
- Company Pension Scheme.
- Life Assurance.
- Income Protection.
- Flexible Benefits - including Cycle scheme, Dental insurance, Optical Cover, Travel insurance and Corporate discounts.
- Buro Happold actively encourages its employees to finish at 3pm on the last Friday of each month (depending on business demands). These hours can equate to an additional 4 days leave per annum.
Join us to find out what you’re really capable of.
Described by our clients as 'passionate', 'innovative', 'collaborative': Buro Happold is an independent, international engineering practice that for over 40 years has become synonymous with the delivery of creative, value led building and city solutions for an ever changing world. Having worked on every continent, our clients include more than 90% of the world's leading architectural practices and we have collaborated with global organisations such as the United Nations, The World Bank and UNESCO. Through our global community of driven, world leading engineering and consulting professionals we deliver elegant solutions for buildings and cities that seek to address the major problems facing societies today. Follow us @burohappold and find out more at www.burohappold.com.
Buro Happold value flexible working as an important part of the way we work. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.
I-JA1 #Hybrid
#LI-JA1 #Hybrid