Acoustic Consultant - Remote

Penguin Recruitment; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A specialist acoustical engineering firm in the United Kingdom is seeking an Acoustic Consultant to join their remote team. The role includes consultancy and design for various projects, management of project teams, and financial control. The ideal candidate should possess a strong academic background in acoustics or related fields, with significant consultancy experience and excellent communication skills. This permanent position offers competitive salary and career development opportunities.

Benefits

Excellent salary

Benefits and career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong first or higher degree in acoustics or related fields.
• Membership of the IOA or equivalent body desired.
• Considerable senior post graduate experience in Acoustic Consultancy.

Responsibilities

• Provide consultancy and design for built environment.
• Prepare technical and financial proposals.
• Manage project teams to ensure timely deliverables.

Skills

Acoustic Consultancy experience

Excellent communication skills

Project management

Education

Degree in acoustics or related field

Job description

Overview

A niche specialist acoustical engineering organisation with expertise in engineering consultancy for the built environment urgently requires an Acoustic Consultant to join their specialist consulting team based remotely across England. The company possesses a strong and challenging portfolio of projects across the country, and successful applicants will lead acoustic design across a broad range of market sectors including buildings for performance, airports, convention centres, hotels and high quality residential.

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, electro-acoustics 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

Projects

• Examples of projects include road schemes, bridges, harbours, schools, sports stadia, offices, hotels, hospitals, tall buildings, buildings for performance, airports, convention centres and high quality residential.

Benefits

Excellent salary + Benefits and career development opportunities.

Interested in this or other roles in Acoustics? Please do not hesitate to contact Amir Gharaati from Penguin Recruitment for more information.

This is a permanent role.

Penguin Recruitment is operating as a Recruitment Agency in respect to this position