Building Services Engineering is about bringing the space and it’s occupants together through highly considered and effective system design, providing an immersive, user friendly environment. At Meinhardt, we embrace this challenge. Concerns over a building’s energy use and carbon footprint has empowered our engineers to seek new and exciting ways to challenge design.

Buildings are the largest energy consumer and contributor to CO2 emissions globally, a climate emergency condition that we take very seriously in our design ethos.

Reporting to the Associate Director, you will be required to:

Primary Responsibilities

Project Role

• Management/financial awareness.
• Ability to supervise a small team of engineers and technicians.
• Role will normally be as Project Engineer on projects of various sizes.
• On major/more complex projects could take the role of Design Engineer.
• Be responsible for delivering work to a fee agreed with a Project Manager.

Core responsibilities for the task include

• Task delivery to agreed deadline and fee.
• Task profitability.
• Task quality.
• Present to Clients.
• Construct project teams from internal and external resources.
• Procure project resources.
• Plan projects.

Company Role

• Have an understanding of our Business plan.
• Have an understanding of company financial indicators.
• Contribute to the development of company procedures by taking an active role in task groups.
• Attend team meetings and play an active role in the development of procedures within your team.
• Apply policies relating to health & safety, quality and training.

Engineering Function

• Agree design philosophy/design fundamentals.
• Review and comment on deliverables produced by Engineers and Technicians at key stages through a project.
• Demonstrates all round technical competence.
• Have knowledge of concept design, detailed design, construction techniques, procurement routes, risk assessment and claim assessment.
• Have knowledge of analytical concepts.
• Have knowledge of our delivery in CAD standards and 3D working.

Business Development

• Starting to develop network of contacts.
• Be ambassadors for Company.

Key Skills/Experience

Qualifications

• Minimum five years experience.
• Chartered status preferred.
• Able to represent the practice at project level.
• Demonstrate ability to take responsibility for projects.
• Ability to manage the design and construction stages of a project.

Company benefits include

• Annual Leave of 20 days plus bank holidays
• Three days of additional holiday at Christmas. This is non-contractual, the dates are set by the company and these three days are not counted in your annual leave allowance within your contract.
• Employers pension contribution
• Life Assurance and Payment Protection Cover
• Group Income Protection scheme, including access to Legal & General health and wellbeing services
• Flexible working hours
• Bupa Health Insurance
• Four company socials per year
• Chartership support
• Professional membership cost covered (one per year at this level, two per year once associate level).
• Birthday leave – an additional day off on your birthday (to be taken in the month of your birthday).
• Alternate breakfast/lunch provided on Friday’s.

Interested? Please send your CV and portfolio to: careers(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)meinhardt.co.uk

Meinhardt (UK) Ltd reserves the right to alter the content of this job description to reflect changes to the job, without altering the general character or level of responsibility.