Mechanical Design Engineer - Building Services/ MEP     

£40k - £45k

Reading, Berkshire – Hybrid / Flexible Working

Consultancy / intermediate Mechanical Design Engineer / MEP / Building Services Design

Benefits Include

• 25 days holiday (increasing with service)
• Private Health
• Pension
• Gym membership
• Life Assurance

Overview

This is a great opportunity to work on some interesting projects and develop and utilise your mechanical design skills with a company who offers an environment where you’ll always feel like an integral part of the team - trusted, depended on and treated as an individual from day one.

This mechanical design engineer role is to be part of a building services design team delivering innovative and creative solutions.  Project types range from science and research, advanced manufacturing, sport, education, defence, commercial and residential sectors.

The culture of this consultancy is both supportive and collaborative, bringing together the very best elements of working for a large company, such as interesting projects of all scales but yet maintaining a close knit team. For the right candidate there is the opportunity to progress rapidly following either a technical or managerial career path.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• Carrying out condition surveys and providing recommendation reports to clients

Qualifications:

• Accredited Building Services degree or higher educational qualification (HNC/HND)
• Experience with running projects from conception through to completion including calculations, drawings, specifications, etc
• REVIT , AutoCAD experience (experience with IES modelling and Revit would be an advantage)
• Post degree qualification experience in Building Services or Mechanical engineering, and ideally be working towards Chartership.