Buro Happold's Energy Consulting team is looking for an Associate to join our vibrant and friendly team in London. You will work at the forefront of innovation in the energy sector, helping clients at a district, campus, and masterplan level to enhance the sustainability, efficiency, and resilience of their energy infrastructure.
Your crucial focus will be on delivering value for our clients, using distributed energy to resolve energy security, costs, and sustainability challenges across the range of sectors and markets in which Buro Happold operates, ultimately helping us to drive this agenda and deliver energy solutions for the 21st century.
Buro Happold values flexible working as an important part of the way we work. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.
Energy Consulting @ Buro Happold
Our UK Energy team sits within Buro Happold Cities and contains over 50 engineers, scientists, geographers, and commercialisation consultants. The teamwork throughout the project lifecycle from national scale spatial energy system analytics through to detailed design of some of the most innovative district energy and smart grid installations. The team is split geographically across London, Leeds, Mancheste,r and Edinburgh.
Our very strong portfolio of work includes:
- District heating/energy work such as:
- Innovate techno-economic feasibility studies across a range of scenarios, including ambient systems, waste heat from the sewage treatment process, mine water and deep geothermal. https://youtu.be/55h7n9LbdaI
- Heat zonin,g including the Advanced Zoning Pilot in Plymouth and several pilot studies
- Detailed design up to RIBA stage 4 for buried networks, large-scale heat pump-based energy centres, building substations and production of drawings and specification documents for contractor tender packs
- Campus decarbonisation projects
- Utilities commercialisation
- Various low carbon frameworks; Scottish Government, Energy Systems Catapult, DESNZ, GLA.
- International masterplan schemes in Middle East, Europe and beyond
- County and region-wide renewable studies and Local Area Energy Plans (LAEP) including Communiheat - working with communities towards net zero carbon emissions https://communiheat.org/
- Much more!
What you’ll do
Your key focus areas will be on energy system policy, planning, design and delivery at campus, development, city and regional scales. You will deliver value for our clients using distributed energy to resolve energy security, costs and sustainability challenges across the range of sectors and markets in which Buro Happold operates.
You will be responsible for a diverse range of activities, from analysis and reporting, to planning projects/resourcing, and managing client relationships across our portfolio of energy clients.
Your responsibilities are expected to comprise the following...
- Leading multi-disciplinary district energy RIBA 3 and 4 design projects – comprising energy centres, district energy networks and heat customer interfaces
- Leading energy team projects to meet budget and programme requirements
- Supervising and monitoring the design process to ensure that the scheme design objectives are being followed and the design reflects the client’s requirements.
- Identifying opportunities for new work and contributing to business development activities through input to fee proposals and bids.
- Managing energy team inputs to inter-disciplinary projects, including monitoring resourcing against the project plan.
- Supporting the Energy leadership in client and design team relationships
- Producing accurate, professional written reports and drawings that effectively communicate our work to clients and stakeholders.
- Delivering presentations to clients/stakeholders as projects evolve.
More about you...
Our ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate the following...
- Experience in delivering and leading concept or detailed engineering design of low carbon energy systems; production of schematics, layout drawings, district energy route drawings.
- Technical knowledge and familiarity with the sizing, design, operation and implementation of low carbon technologies and key components in district energy systems; including heat pumps, chillers, thermal storage, boilers, plate heat exchangers, pumps and buried district energy pipework systems.
- Experience in undertaking system investigations and modelling to support and enhance engineering designs.
- Experience in troubleshooting and rectification of under-performing energy or process systems.
- Experience and understanding of building integrated and utility-scale energy systems, building energy performance and efficiency standards, and regulatory drivers of energy and carbon efficiency across a range of project scales.
- Knowledge of UK energy policy and regulatory drivers of energy and carbon efficiency across a range of project scales.
- Experience of team and project management to deliver client expectations on program, fee, quality etc.
- Competency with the sizing, design, operation and implementation of low and zero carbon technologies and key components in district energy systems.
- Experience and understanding of building integrated and utility-scale energy systems, building energy performance and efficiency standards.
- Experience of economic modelling of energy systems for feasibility studies/options appraisals.
- Ability to work across inter-disciplinary projects, liaising with various stakeholders.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, ability to communicate detailed design and technical subjects to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Degree educated, preferably in mechanical, electrical, energy, physics or environmental related discipline.
Desirable skills
- Familiarity with work-winning, bid writing, and responding to public tenders or requests for proposals.
- Experience of the detailed design of district energy systems
- Experience in developing detailed feasibility studies for energy systems at different scales
- Experience of economic modelling of energy systems for feasibility studies/options appraisals
- CIBSE Heat Network Consultant - CP1 2020 knowledge and experience
- Energy network hydraulic modelling and design skills
- Familiarity with Revit and/or AutoCAD
- Participation in HAZOP and/or HAZID studies
- Experience in client or owner’s engineer roles overseeing the construction and delivery of district energy projects
- Ability to undertake research and evaluation of new technologies, policies, and services in the energy sector.
- Excellent graphic design and presentational skills.
- Chartership or equivalent
What we offer you
Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world's most respected consultancies.
- Hybrid working arrangements
- Attractive salary
- 10% Car Allowance
- Discretionary bonus
- Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements
- Generous company pension scheme, life assurance and income protection
- Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts
- Enhanced parenthood leave policies
- A strong commitment to 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
- An opportunity to support your local community and those in society that are most in need, wherever they are located in the world, through our Share Our Skills (SOS) programme
- 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 exceptional.
A place for everyone
Buro Happold values an individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of the way 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 and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing difference 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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