Buro Happold are recruiting a Senior Asset Consultant to join our Bath based team.
This role would suit an experienced Mechanical or Electrical Engineer with strong consulting skills and a genuine interest in solving complex M&E problems.
Are you a natural problem solver who enjoys collaborating directly with clients to bring pragmatic, resilient, and environmentally sensitive solutions to the built environment?
This is a pivotal role which will see you acting as the lead M&E engineer in the Asset Consultancy team - you will apply your extensive technical knowledge of building services systems to inform practical advice to our clients on issues such as design life, energy consumption, plant operation and control, flexibility, sustainability and the maintainability of assets.
You will contribute to the overall provision of strategic property advice for both individual buildings and complete premises portfolios, within cultural, commercial, entertainment, financial, utilities, technology and education sectors.
Key Duties:
Your responsibilities will be highly varied, but can typically be expected to comprise of...
- Providing mechanical or Electrical design expertise to clients in a wide variety of contexts;
- Meeting clients, other professionals and contractors;
- Supporting business development activity for the asset consultancy discipline and wider practice where appropriate;
- Developing strategic, technically based reports and plans to present directly to clients and end-users;
- Taking ownership for client relationships with end-users, developers, contractors, etc.
- Preparation of condition surveys, forward maintenance plans, dilapidation schedules, defect analyses, system diagnostics reports, schedules of condition and the monitoring of the subsequent works processes;
- Provide business, technical, maintenance, operational and energy audits and, or studies based upon conventional and alternative energy sources for individual or groups of buildings;
- Demonstrate awareness of sustainable construction, operations and maintenance;
- Preparation of Employer’s Requirements and Developer’s Specifications for new buildings, building refurbishment, renovation, remodelling, engineering services and allied systems and the monitoring of project works;
- Organising resources and ensuring that services and projects are carried out to an agreed programme and within budget;
- Contribute to Buro Happold wide initiatives with respect to technical development / market sectors and processes.
Your Skills & Experience:
This role would suit an experienced building services engineer with strong client-facing skills. Typical candidates can be expected to demonstrate...
- Experience in building services consultancy.
- Excellent technical knowledge of mechanical systems; ability to investigate, identify and provide solutions to technical problems;
- Excellent client-facing and communication skills (verbal and written), with experience presenting (you will often be required to present solutions directly to 'c-suite' level stakeholders)
- Experience in the preparation of technical reports for delivery direct to a client audience
- Ability to problem solve and propose multiple solutions to Clients and objectively summarise the benefits and shortfalls of each.
- Bachelors degree (BEng) / BSc or Masters degree (MEng) / MSc that meets the engineering academic requirements for chartership.
- Mobility to travel at short notice.
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.
Benefits:
- Generous 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.
We proudly support hybrid working and welcome colleagues into our office 2-3 days a week.
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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:
- Generous 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.
We proudly support hybrid working however candidates will be expected to travel to our Bath office 2-3 days a week.
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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.