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is recruiting for a Mechanical Engineer to join our team in our Leeds office.

This role is suited to a candidate from a Buildings background looking for an opportunity to pursue industry leading designs within a vibrant multi-disciplinary practice.

We proudly support hybrid working; however, candidates are encouraged to travel to our Leeds office - days a week.

What sort of projects could I work on?

The role could see you working as a mechanical designer in a large project team or being a project engineer on smaller schemes. You will be working on some of the most technically challenging projects in our portfolio - recent examples include , and

With us, your preconceptions will be tested, your resilience built, and your career enriched.

The role of a Mechanical Engineer can be very varied; duties will include but are not limited to:

• Undertake detailed mechanical engineering building services design and calculations, using Revit and IES software to support your knowledge of exemplar building design and performance, as well as an appreciation of a design's embodied carbon.
• Embrace technologies to improve performance and sustainability to meet net zero targets.
• Ensure projects are carried out to an excellent standard, within agreed deadlines and budgets.
• Represent Buro Happold at meetings with clients, other professionals, and suppliers.
• Produce and review reports, presentations, models, and drawings to an excellent standard, high level of accuracy, and in a timely manner.
• Prepare technical specifications and schedules, design development reports, and innovative design solutions.
• Plan and manage input to Revit for production of design work.
• Actively engage with colleagues across disciplines in group discussions and at events and seminars.

Be Respected

We’ll help you meet your goals, respecting your ideas and fostering your creativity, collaboration, and innovation.

As an experienced Mechanical Engineer, we would expect that you will be able to demonstrate:

• Relevant building services experience or credentials that will help us meet our goals for delivering highly sustainable buildings.
• Broad design knowledge, from working on a wide range of projects and using British, US, and European codes of practice.
• Experience using common analysis software including Revit and IES and willing to quickly learn to use new analysis packages as required.
• Digital engineering skills (coding) would be advantageous.
• Working towards, or Chartered Member of CIBSE or equivalent body.
• A Bachelor’s degree BEng/BSc or Master’s degree MEng/MSc in a relevant discipline.

Why Buro Happold?

From helping shape entire cities to adapting infrastructure to deal with the climate emergency, a career at Buro Happold presents the chance to make a difference. With a world-class reputation, our creativity and our people have delivered positive change to clients, the environment, and communities. If you want to be part of something bigger, this is your chance.

What we offer:

• Generous holiday entitlement of days per annum, exclusive of Bank Holidays.
• Hybrid working arrangements.
• Company Pension Scheme.
• Life Assurance.
• Income Protection.
• Flexible Benefits - including Cycle scheme, Dental insurance, Optical Cover, Travel insurance, and Corporate discounts.

Join us to find out what you’re really capable of.

Described by our clients as 'passionate', 'innovative', 'collaborative': Buro Happold is an independent, international engineering practice that for over years has become synonymous with the delivery of creative, value-led building and city solutions for an ever-changing world. Having worked on every continent, our clients include more than % of the world's leading architectural practices and we have collaborated with global organizations such as the United Nations, The World Bank, and UNESCO. Through our global community of driven, world-leading engineering and consulting professionals, we deliver elegant solutions for buildings and cities that seek to address the major problems facing societies today. Follow us and find out more.

Buro Happold values individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of the way you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds, and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalized groups in the built environment and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing difference allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.

Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact us so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.