Principle Building Services Engineer

CIBSE Journal; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 71,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Permanent position

Flexible working arrangements

Career progression opportunities

Professional development

Job summary

CIBSE Journal is seeking a Principal Building Services Engineer (Mechanical or Electrical) in Birmingham. A salary of GBP55,000–GBP71,000 plus benefits is offered for a leading infrastructure consultancy delivering complex UK public-sector projects.

You will provide technical leadership across a growing portfolio, mentor engineers, and ensure safe, compliant design solutions across multiple live schemes, including secure estates and government facilities.

Qualifications

• Significant experience delivering building-services designs in consultancy, contractor or multidisciplinary environments.
• Relevant Mechanical or Electrical Engineering qualification and professional registration trajectory.
• Proven ability to produce calculations, drawings, specifications and technical reports.
• Experience leading engineering packages and coordinating multidisciplinary projects.
• Strong knowledge of standards, regulations and design practices.
• Excellent client and stakeholder engagement, mentoring and development of colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of mechanical or electrical building-services designs across complex projects.
• Produce, review and approve calculations, drawings, specifications and technical documentation.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring and support to engineers and technicians.
• Coordinate designs with architects, structural engineers, contractors, clients and other stakeholders.
• Manage technical quality, design assurance and delivery against programme requirements.
• Support project planning, resource management and commercial delivery.
• Attend design reviews, client meetings and technical discussions.
• Undertake site surveys, inspections and support delivery within live operational environments.
• Contribute to bids, proposals and wider business development activities.

Skills

Building services leadership

Client engagement

Mentoring engineers

Coordination across disciplines

Communication skills

Project delivery oversight

Education

Mechanical or Electrical Engineering degree

Chartered status or working towards

Tools

Engineering calculations & design documentation

Job description

Principal Building Services Engineer (Mechanical or Electrical)

Salary: GBP55,000 – GBP71,000 + benefits

Location: Birmingham

We are recruiting a Principal Building Services Engineer (Mechanical or Electrical) to join a leading infrastructure consultancy delivering complex projects across the UK s public–sector, secure estates and operational environments.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced building–services professional to provide technical leadership across a growing portfolio of infrastructure and secure–building projects, including Ministry of Justice and government facilities. You will lead engineering delivery, provide technical guidance to project teams, and ensure safe, compliant and high–quality design solutions are delivered across multiple schemes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of mechanical or electrical building–services designs across complex projects.
• Produce, review and approve calculations, drawings, specifications and technical documentation.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring and support to engineers and technicians.
• Coordinate designs with architects, structural engineers, contractors, clients and other stakeholders.
• Manage technical quality, design assurance and delivery against programme requirements.
• Support project planning, resource management and commercial delivery.
• Attend design reviews, client meetings and technical discussions.
• Undertake site surveys, inspections and support delivery within live operational environments.
• Contribute to bids, proposals and wider business development activities.

About You

You will have:

• Significant experience in building–services engineering within a consultancy, contractor or multidisciplinary environment.
• A relevant Mechanical or Electrical Engineering qualification.
• Strong experience delivering designs, calculations, specifications and technical reports.
• Experience leading engineering packages and coordinating multidisciplinary projects.
• Strong knowledge of relevant industry standards, regulations and design practices.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage with clients and stakeholders.
• Experience mentoring engineers and supporting technical development.
• Chartered status or working towards professional registration.

Desirable Experience

Experience delivering projects within Ministry of Justice, secure estates, defence, healthcare or other operational environments would be highly advantageous. You should understand the challenges of working within live environments, including stakeholder coordination, design assurance, refurbishment constraints and maintaining operational continuity.

Security clearance and Ministry of Justice vetting will be required.

What s Offered

• Salary: GBP55,000 – GBP71,000 + benefits
• Permanent position with a leading infrastructure consultancy.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• Opportunity to lead technically challenging and nationally important projects.
• Professional development and career progression opportunities.
• Collaborative multidisciplinary working environment.

We welcome applications from experienced Principal Mechanical and Electrical Building Services Engineers looking to take a leading role within a growing engineering team.