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Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

Up to £40000 per annum £4K car allowance, career progression
 
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Stuart Marshall Director M&E Engineering (Design & Projects & Asset Consultancy)

Job Description

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer - Leeds .c£40K £4K car allowance clear career progression

Looking for a move away from the tight project costing, tight deadlines and long hours of a typical Design Consultancy?

Then it is worth considering a career move into one of the world's leading and most respected Property Consultancies.

Rational

As an ambitious, Senior Mechanical Design Engineer, you will already know how to design and manage projects and build rapport quickly with a project team. You may not be unhappy in your current role, however you may be starting to consider your longer-term career options as you feel that you are not being fully utilised, overworked and undervalued within your current practice.

Over the past 8 years this particular Property Consultancy has developed its own internal M&E Design Consultancy to meet and deliver M&E Design & Project Management to their clients, who in the main are the owners and occupiers of the largest real estate estates portfolios in the world.

Offering absolute career stability and with growth in mind, due to their success, this global Commercial Property Consultancy has a clear three year plan to grow their M&E offering by 50% over the next three years, opening up a huge ongoing career opportunity for you.

You'll deepen your understanding of the client-side, commercial property sector that will set you apart from your peers and enable you to progress to Associate as soon as possible, and beyond, with complete backing of the business.

  • An in-depth knowledge of Building Services practices, procedures and standards with particular focus on Mechanical Design and Project Management.
  • Knowledge of the BIM process and the built environment would be advantageous
  • The ability to work as part of a team or autonomously, with excellent team skills and strong attention to detail.

What's in it for you

As a key player within the MEP division, you'll be designing, leading and supervising varied and interesting projects across a broad range of high-profile Commercial Buildings and have full autonomy to implement your innovative designs.

Not only supported by the M&E Directors and Partner, you will also benefit educationally from working closely with the other in-house disciplines across Project Management, Building Surveying and M&E Asset Management. You will lead projects where MEP is crucial to the success of the project and enjoy knowing that your designs are helping future-proof low energy buildings for future generations.

You will be expected to design, manage and supervise projects co-ordinating with other engineering and real estate disciplines. Carry out detailed design in accordance with industry guides. Prepare specifications, reports, design drawings and budget costs to programme. Supervise project works on site, workmanship and testing.

You will also learn how to undertake professional M&E Due diligence surveys, dilapidations, forward maintenance planning and audits/reports. Whilst contributing to fee, billing and profit targets.

Benefits

As well as an opportunity to work client-side and set yourself apart from all of your peers in Design Consultancy, you will be offered an enjoyable work life balance, they offer a competitive salary, car allowance, significant annual bonus, contributory pension and a host of other flexible package options.

With staff development and retention at the core of its values; they have always promoted from within and still have one of the best levels of employee engagement in the industry.

Rather than being micromanaged, you'll enjoy working autonomously, either at home or in the office - you decide on what works for you, whilst being fully supported by the M&E Partner at every step.

As a first step to an initial conversation, please click below to apply or send me a message.

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