Acoustic Consultant - Remote

Penguin Recruitment; Greater London; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Penguin Recruitment Ltd is seeking a Senior Acoustic Consultant to join their specialist team and work remotely from London. You will lead acoustic design across a broad range of market sectors including buildings for property and construction.

The role requires a strong postgraduate background in acoustics, experience in building acoustics modelling, and excellent communication and project-management skills to manage client relationships and deliver high-quality reports.

Qualifications

• Senior postgraduate experience in acoustic consultancy for buildings.
• Modelling experience with building acoustics and environmental noise tools.
• Clear ability to manage projects and write detailed reports.

Responsibilities

• Provide consultancy and design covering all aspects of built environment development, biased toward building fabric and engineering systems.
• Prepare technical and financial input to proposals for acoustic design.
• Be the point of contact on acoustics and vibration issues and develop clients to extend multidisciplinary skills.
• Provide consultancy in architectural and engineering acoustics at strategic and detailed levels.
• Generate innovative solutions to meet business needs.
• Resolve complex acoustical issues ensuring compliance with statutory bodies.
• Summarise data interpretations and provide conclusions.
• Supervise and coordinate the work of others.
• Manage project teams to deliver outputs on time.
• Forecast and control project finances to keep within budget.
• Build client relationships and draft fee proposals.
• Provide technical guidance and mentor junior members of the team.
• Contribute to group expansion and business development through networking and presentations.

Skills

Acoustics modelling

Communication skills

Project management

Technical reporting

Education

Degree in acoustics

Job description

An established engineering consultancy with expertise for the built environment urgently requires a Senior Acoustic Consultant to join their specialist consulting team based remotely in London. The company possess a strong and challenging portfolio of projects across the country, successful applicants will lead acoustic design across a broad range of market sectors including buildings for property and construction.

Qualifications

• A strong first or higher degree in acoustics, ideally combined with science, architecture, construction management or engineering studies at graduate or post graduate level
• Membership of the IOA or equivalent body is strongly desired for this role.

Experience

• Considerable senior post graduate experience in Acoustic Consultancy within the Buildings sector
• Modelling experience with building acoustics and environmental noise tools
• Ideally knowledge and experience of building services, environmental noise, building vibration, and audio systems
• Excellent written, oral and visual communication skills.
• A proven track record in effective project and financial management
• Ability to write fluent and intelligible reports, placing a high emphasis on accuracy

Duties

• Provide consultancy and design covering all aspects of built environment development, but biased towards building fabric and building engineering systems.
• Preparation of technical and financial input to proposals for acoustic design.
• Providing a point of contact on acoustics and vibration issues and developing both internal and external clients to extend the multidisciplinary skills of the business in general.
• Provide consultancy in architectural and engineering acoustics at both strategic and detailed level
• Generate innovative solutions to complex issues that meet business needs.
• Resolve complex acoustical engineering issues assuring compliance with statutory bodies
• Summarise data interpretations and providing conclusions
• Supervise and co-ordinate the work of others
• Manage project teams to ensure the production of deliverables to agreed timelines
• Financial forecasting and control of projects to ensure that they remain within budget
• Build client relationships, respond to enquiries, communicate with clients to establish their needs and draft fee proposals
• Provide technical guidance and mentor junior members of the team
• Contribute to group expansion and develop and maintain business through networking, contact nurturing and presentations

Benefits

Excellent salary + extensive benefits and career development opportunities.

This is a permanent role.