Mechanical Design Engineer

Ridge and Partners LLP
Reading
1 week ago
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Are you a Mechanical Design Engineer looking to take that next step in your career? Do you want to work on exceptionally varied and diverse projects?


As the demand for our expertise continues to grow, we now have an exciting opportunity for a Mechanical Design Engineer to join our significantly experienced and talented Engineering Team based at our Reading office.


Our client list includes Education, commercial, retail, industrial, leisure and many more. As a Mechanical Engineer at Ridge, you will be exposed to many sectors and many cultures. Building services engineers design, install and maintain the services that are needed to allow the building to do what it's designed to.


What you need to do to be effective in this role:

  • Working as part of a design team delivering detailed design
  • Liaising closely with other professionals, including structural engineers, architects, surveyors, and contractors of in-house and external project teams
  • Attending a range of project group and technical meetings
  • Ensuring that the design and maintenance of building systems meets legislative and health and safety requirements
  • Advising clients and architects on energy use and conservation in a range of buildings and sites, aiming to minimise the environmental impact and reduce the carbon footprint
  • Designing site‑specific equipment as required
  • Overseeing and supervising the installation of building systems and specifying maintenance and operating procedures
  • Using specialist computer‑aided design (CAD) and BIM (Revit) software and other resources to design the systems required for the project
  • Carrying out condition surveys and providing recommendation reports to clients

The skills and experience you need to have for this role:

To be successful in this role you will have an accredited Building Services degree or higher educational qualification and significant experience in a similar role.


Ideally working towards chartered engineer status with a suitable institution.


You will need to be an excellent communicator who can articulate complicated issues between our clients and our highly skilled project teams.


You will also need to show ambition and a willingness to learn whilst demonstrating a high level of diligence and organisational skills.


Experience within industry standard software such as IES, Hevacomp, AutoCAD, REVIT would be beneficial.


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