Mechanical Associate

Buro Happold is recruiting for an Associate Mechanical Engineer to join our Building Environments team in Cambridge.

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 the successful applicant leading MEP projects, inputting to, and assisting with leading the mechanical team on projects in the Cambridge area and further afield, including Higher Educational buildings, research facilities, mixed-use developments, and refurbishments, including heritage buildings. 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 the boundaries of sustainable design.

This is an opportunity to join a talented CIBSE award winning team renowned for achieving outstanding building performance.

This key role will have a variety of day‑to‑day responsibilities including:

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• Leading the delivery of projects, including single and multi-disciplinary offerings
  
• 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.
  
• Monitoring financial performance of jobs as well as setting up and managing job/project administrative systems, including planning and monitoring job resourcing and expenditure.
  

As a talented building services engineer, it is expected that you would be able to demonstrate extensive mechanical design experience in an MEP consultancy, with experience acting as project leader.

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• Strong sector knowledge relevant to the Cambridge market, ideally including higher education, science and technology, decarbonisation and mixed‑use developments.
  
• Strong interpersonal and organisational skills, able to develop relationships with clients, architects and other team members.
  
• Bachelor's or master’s degree in engineering.
  
• Professionally registered with a relevant institution; e.g. CIBSE, IMechE, etc.
  
• Although mechanically 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.
  

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.

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• Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world's most respected consultancies.
  
• Hybrid working arrangements.
  
• Attractive salary.
  
• 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.
  

Apply now and be where exceptional is everywhere.

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 so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.