Ventilation Sales & Design Engineer

WR Engineering; Northampton; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car or allowance

23 days holiday

Job summary

WR Engineering is seeking a ventilation designer and surveyor for a cradle-to-grave role within a small, family-run contractor. The position covers design, survey, procurement, and project management for LEV and HVAC systems, with regular site visits and customer liaison.

Hybrid working is possible with regular office days, and a car or allowance is provided. You will manage projects from enquiry to installation, survey customers, size systems to spec, and oversee suppliers and installers while

Qualifications

• Design background in HVAC/ventilation/air conditioning/refrigeration is essential.
• Ability to design and size ventilation systems, ductwork or similar HVAC solutions.
• Understand fluid dynamics and pressure loss calculations.
• Customer facing skills are required.
• Full driving licence required.

Responsibilities

• Handle projects from enquiry to installation, including site survey, design and sizing of ventilation systems.
• Respond to telephone and website enquiries and maintain client relationships.
• Visit customers to survey, explain technical capabilities, and ensure client satisfaction.
• Design and size systems to client specifications and project requirements.
• Plan, organise and supervise suppliers and installers for installations.
• Prepare RAMS, method statements and other technical documentation.
• Ensure ISO9001:2015 quality management compliance.

Skills

HVAC design

Customer facing

Design & sizing

Job description

Ventilation designer & surveyor is required for a varied cradle-to-grave role within a small, long-established, family-run ventilation contractor. The company specialise in LEV, dust and fume extraction, humidity and temperature control ventilation.

Essential requirements:

• A design background in HVAC, ventilation, air conditioning or refrigeration is essential for this role
• Ability to design and size ventilation systems, ductwork or other similar HVAC solutions
• Understand fluid dymanics, pressure loss calcs
• Customer facing skill set
• Full driving licencePackage: circa £40K - £50K + car or allowance

23 days holiday

Key duties include:

• You will handle projects from customer enquiry to installation; follow up enquiries, site survey, design & size ventilation systems, procurement, manufacturing, managing sub contract installers.
• Responding to telephone and website enquiries
• Visiting customers to survey and build and maintain relationships, explaining technical capability of systems.
• Designing & sizing systems to client specifications
• Planning, organising and supervising suppliers and installers.
• Managing installations and all associated project documentation.
• Supporting preparation of RAMS, method statements and technical paperwork.
• Ensuring the Quality Management System meets ISO9001:2015 standards.

hybrid working is possible with regular days in office. 2/3It is likely you have worked for a ventilation, air conditioning or heating contractor as a designer / surveyor, contracts manager, sales engineer or similar and able to design bespoke HVAC systems.