Principal / Associate Utilities Infrastructure Consultant – Manchester

Tyréns Hilson Moran; Manchester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Enhanced annual leave 25 days + 8

Job summary

Tyréns Hilson Moran seeks a Principal or Associate Utilities Consultant to be based in our Manchester office, joining the Infrastructure and Environment Group. The role supports water, civil and multi-utility services for major development projects while delivering cost, programme and risk insights across disciplines.

You will lead client engagement, coordinate with designers and utility undertakers, and mentor junior staff as part of an inter-disciplinary team.

Qualifications

• Experience with planning, managing and delivering utilities infrastructure for major development projects.
• Understanding of the Planning Process and RIBA Stages and how activities fit into these.
• Strong commercial understanding of utilities costs and programme risks.

Responsibilities

• Meet with developers and their supply chain to understand development needs and develop proposals.
• Consult with the wider design team and utility undertakers to assess opportunities, risks and costs.
• Maintain client and design team relationships through regular reporting and communication.
• Procure specialist utility and multi-utility contractors and coordinate scopes and specifications.
• Lead utilities progress meetings and manage delivery of enabling and connection works.
• Review data and reconcile final costs; monitor project costs and profitability.
• Mentor junior staff and delegate projects while ensuring client expectations are understood.

Skills

Utilities planning

Stakeholder engagement

Project coordination

Mentoring

MS Office

Job description

We are seeking to employ an Principal or Associate Utilities Consultant to be based in our Manchester office.

We are currently seeking a Principal or Associate Utilities Consultant to join our Infrastructure and Environment Group. Within this Group our ‘Utilities’ team provide market leading utilities and energy infrastructure consultancy and engineering services to some of the UK’s largest and most visible development projects. The role will also support our water and civil engineering teams, with whom we form a really strong inter-disciplinary relationship.

Our ‘Infrastructure and Environment’ Group provide technical, commercial and procurement advice to large and often prestigious commercial, residential and mixed-use developers. We tend to support large regeneration and masterplanning projects from early infrastructure planning through to installation and commissioning of multi-utility, foul/surface water/SuDs and mobility services, and uniquely we manage the alteration of existing utility networks in very constrained (often below ground) spaces to de-risk some of the UK’s most prestigious development projects.

As An Inter-disciplinary Group We Provide Expertise In Regard Water Resources, Wastewater (sewerage, Flood Risk And SuDS), District Heating/cooling And Smart, Electricity Networks, Telecommunications And Mobility-based Solutions. In Broad Terms We Want People Who Are Excellent At

• the planning, design and procurement of new utilities (and energy networks) in support of a wide array of commercial and residential development projects but often large multi-phase mixed-use urban extension or urban regeneration projects.
• the de-risking and delivery of complex utility enabling works including temporary and permanent diversions and disconnections within major building and infrastructure projects often in constrained urban environments.

Your Responsibilities Will Include, But Are Not Limited To

• Together with our Associate Directors and Directors meet with commercial and residential developers and/or landowners, and their supply chain including Architects, Planning Consultants and Project Managers, to understand development needs, both technical and commercial drivers, and develop proposals that meet their needs.
• Once appointed by a client then consult with the wider design team, but particularly utility undertakers and other utilities, energy, and data service providers to understand opportunities, risks and costs associated with our client’s development proposals and advise of these risks, costs and opportunities via meetings, sketches, presentations and reports.
• Maintain and enhance both client and design team relationships through regular reporting and communication. Develop utility designs directly and via third parties and coordinate (using our in-house Engineering and CAD Technicians as required), often to support a client’s groundworks tender, whereby tender and contract drawings will be developed.
• Procure the services of specialist utility and multi-utility contractors and undertakers by developing scopes and specifications as part of a wider Employers Requirement document using drawings and other documents as required. This might be new connections related work, early utility enabling works, or likely both.
• Manage the delivery of critical utility enabling and new connection works often alongside third-party Project Management and Cost Consultancy Practises.
• Report back to our client on progress and issue any relevant instructions to contractors.
• Lead utilities progress meetings as required to progress the works.
• Review as-constructed data and closeout or reconcile final costs.
• Using timesheets understand your impact on project costs and profitability.
• Take ownership of the delivery of all the above through an intimate understanding of client needs and an understanding of project costs and profitability.
• Occasionally you may be required to manage interdisciplinary projects including MEP, water resources and other related built environment disciplines.
• Mentor and develop more junior members of the team. Delegate simpler projects directly to junior members of staff and retain a watching brief so that they too begin to intimately understand client needs and expectations.

Benefits

• Enhanced annual leave entitlement of 25 days per annum, plus public holidays. Your annual leave entitlement will increase based on length of service with us up to 28 days plus public holidays.
• Enhanced company pension contribution.
• Annual budget to spend on personal wellbeing activities.
• Access to our healthcare scheme.
• Access to confidential wellbeing support services via our Employee Assistance Programme.
• Paid volunteering days to support causes important to you.
• Fun company events including our annual winter party and our full company summer social.
• Season ticket loans.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Options for unpaid leave and career breaks.

We’d Like To Hear From You If You Have

The successful candidate will have a good understanding and likely a past working relationship with commercial and-or residential developers, utility undertakers and independent utility or energy network operators. The candidate will have a good commercial understanding of utilities infrastructure including costs and programme risks, as well as their own costs.

Ultimately if you have good experience of planning, managing, and delivering utilities infrastructure for major development projects we are very keen to hear from you. You will likely be a self-starter and certainly be able to plan your own workload. You will likely have formed valuable relationship across both the built environment and utilities sectors.

Ambition to support the strategic planning, business development and growth of an ambitious and successful team that is currently working on some of the most interesting built environment projects in the UK, with additional opportunities to work on international masterplanning projects.

Background & Qualifications

• Understanding and past working relationship with commercial and-or residential developers, utility undertakers and independent utility or energy network operators.
• Commercial understanding of utilities infrastructure including costs and programme risks, as well as their own costs.
• Experience of planning, managing, and delivering utilities infrastructure for major development projects
• Ambition to support the strategic planning, business development and growth.
• A proven awareness of both the Planning Process and RIBA Stages, and how activities fit into these.
• Analytical and fresh thinking abilities to identify issues and suggest solutions before they become a problem to the client.
• Specific academic qualifications are not required you will be working with professional and chartered engineers, town planners, architects and project managers.

Skills

• Ability to influence verbally and through sketches, the written word and presentation
• Presentation and spreadsheet skills with the ability to check technical documents is a necessity.
• Have great attention to detail.
• Self-starter and be able to plan your own workload.
• High proficiency with standard MS programmes and specifically; Word, Excel and Powerpoint.

All applications will be treated in the strictest confidence. Tyréns Hilson Moran is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all communities