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Senior Engineer - Mechanical Building Services - London

BakerHicks
City of London
2 weeks ago
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Description


Why this role?

At BakerHicks, you’ll have the opportunity to develop your skills and diversify your experience. All within a talented and inclusive team, willing to help you fulfil your potential. Our engineers are expert problem solvers with all the skills to visualise the best outcomes, connecting a client-first philosophy with pioneering and sustainable design. We're skilled at working across the disciplines. We nurture all our talent, from graduate engineers through to chartership. And we have decades of in-house expertise in designing forward-thinking projects.

As the demand to deliver exceptional Mechanical Service projects to our clients continues to grow, an opportunity has arisen for an Engineer - Mechanical Services.


About You

You will be a Mechanical Building Services Engineer, ideally with a professional registration, with experience of working on a variety of medium-size projects and possibly managing small packages on large projects.

  • Want to take ownership, be innovative, use initiative and are driven by client satisfaction
  • Have experience in coordinating multi-disciplinary design teams
  • Have experience in guiding and mentoring junior engineers
  • Hold a relevant degree and chartered or willing to work towards this


Key Purpose

  • Design and specify all aspects of Mechanical Building Services in accordance with current guidelines, standards, regulations and project deliverables
  • Contribute to the development and mentoring of our Early Careers population and the continuous improvement of departmental capabilities
  • On occasion, manage Mechanical Servicesinvolvementin small to medium-size projects, including time, cost, quality and client relationship management and delivery.
  • Champion quality and compliance controls within local teams and projects


Responsibilities

  • Provide engineering services design and consultancy work on behalf of Baker Hicks under the direction of the line manager or project owner.
  • Produce design deliverables (including drawings, specifications, and reports), site surveys, construction stage duties, client liaison with members of design/construction teams, project management, costing and ensure progress against the project brief
  • Considerable design, technical detailing and specification writing experience.
  • Experience of contributing to bids, proposals, and tender specifications.


Many of the positions within our company are subject to security clearance. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by various factors. The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain security clearance for this role as required by our clients and sectors.

Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)


About BakerHicks

We’ve been innovating in design, engineering and project delivery since 1957 and operate from 14 locations for a truly European reach. For more about our company story, see: About | BakerHicks.

BakerHicks. A Morgan Sindall Group company.


Benefits

Whatever your discipline, you’ll be alongside some of the most talented people in the industry. Our network of offices are appealing, friendly and comfortable spaces, easily accessible by car or public transport. And our salary and benefits packages are some of the best in the industry.

What you get will depend on what you do, with personal performance-related rewards also on offer in addition to:

  • Company car or cash allowance
  • Up to 6% matched contributory pension plan
  • Life assurance scheme
  • 25 days annual leave plus ability to buy additional leave
  • Discount scheme (including gym membership, mobile phones etc)
  • Flexible/hybrid working
  • Family friendly policies
  • Employee assistance
  • Professional development


BakerHicks is an equal opportunity employer. We care about creating an inclusive atmosphere and are committed to promoting diversity and inclusion throughout.

BakerHicks is an inclusive organisation welcoming talent from all backgrounds. Applicants are assessed on the basis of personal merit and qualifications.

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