Senior Mechanical Engineer

Build Recruitment Limited; South Street; On-site; GBP 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A reputable Built and Environmental Consultancy is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer to join their team in Reading or Oxford. The role involves working on diverse projects, liaising with professionals, and ensuring compliance with safety regulations. Candidates should possess an accredited Building Services degree and significant experience, ideally progressing towards chartered engineer status. This is a permanent position offering £55,000 plus a car allowance.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in a similar role.
• Chartered or working towards chartered engineer status.
• High level of diligence and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver detailed designs as part of a team.
• Liaise with structural engineers, architects, and contractors.
• Attend project meetings and ensure compliance with regulations.
• Advise on energy use and minimize environmental impact.
• Oversee the installation of building systems.

Skills

Excellent communication

Team collaboration

Energy use and conservation advice

Ambition and willingness to learn

Education

Accredited Building Services degree

Tools

CAD software

BIM (Revit)

Job description

Overview

Senior Mechanical Engineer
Reading or Oxford
Permanent
£55,000 plus car allowance

Are you an experienced Mechanical Design Engineer looking to take that next step in your career? Do you want to work on exceptionally varied and diverse projects? If so this could be the role for you.

My client, a very reputable Built and Environmental Consultancy is looking for Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to join their team and help lead the way in transforming the quality and sustainability of the built environment. As the demand for the expertise continues to grow, they now have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to join a significantly experienced and talented Engineering Team based at their Reading office (there is also have a further role in Oxford)

Client lists include Education, commercial, retail, industrial, leisure and many more. As a Senior Mechanical Engineer,you will be exposed to many sectors and many cultures. Building services engineers design, install and maintain the services that are needed to allow the building to do what it's designed to.

What you need to do to be effective in this role

• Working as part of a design team delivering detailed design
• Liaising closely with other professionals, including structural engineers, architects, surveyors, and contractors of in-house and external project teams
• Attending a range of project group and technical meetings
• Ensuring that the design and maintenance of building systems meets legislative and health and safety requirements
• Advising clients and architects on energy use and conservation in a range of buildings and sites, aiming to minimise the environmental impact and reduce the carbon footprint
• Designing site-specific equipment as required
• Overseeing and supervising the installation of building systems and specifying maintenance and operating procedures
• Using specialist computer-aided design (CAD) and BIM (Revit) software and other resources to design the systems required for the project.

Qualifications

The skills and experience you need to have for this role

To be successful in this role you will have an accredited Building Services degree or higher educational qualification and significant experience in a similar role. Ideally chartered or working towards chartered engineer status. You will need to be an excellent communicator who can articulate complicated issues between clients and their highly skilled project teams. You will also need to show ambition and a willingness to learn whilst demonstrating a high level diligence and organisational skills

How to apply

Please get in touch if this role is of interest [e-mail] or call 07449947554