2 days ago
Principal/Associate Mechanical Engineer - Operational Assets
Client: The client is a human-centric and planet-conscious engineering consultancy, delivering intelligent and sustainable solutions to complex design challenges across the built environment, throughout the UK and internationally. They provide a comprehensive range of engineering and consultancy services, including acoustics, air quality, building services (MEP), fire, lighting, security, and sustainability. Their highly skilled teams combine technical excellence with problem-solving expertise to bring buildings to life, ensuring exceptional design quality and operational performance that meets the needs of the communities they serve. The client is committed to fostering an inclusive, supportive environment where individuals can realise their full potential. Employees benefit from a culture that promotes wellbeing, professional development, and individuality. Their benefits package includes a 9-day fortnight scheme, thriving community groups, varied social and networking events, structured professional and technical development programmes, private medical cover, an electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme, stock options, and up to 30 days of annual leave. Their ambition is to empower everyone to develop their knowledge, perform at their best, and enjoy meaningful and rewarding careers. Role: The client has an exciting opportunity for a Principal/Associate Engineer to join their Operational Assets team, based in their Birmingham office. This role is ideally suited to individuals who are passionate about existing buildings, enjoy developing innovative and pragmatic solutions to complex operational challenges, and are motivated by using real-time building data to help drive progress towards net-zero outcomes. The newly established Operational Assets team brings together property consultants, design engineers, and data-led building performance specialists to deliver a holistic service offering across the full building lifecycle. The team works closely with clients to embed themselves within asset portfolios, developing sustainable roadmaps and supporting projects from concept through implementation and ongoing operation. With a strong track record across the Residential, Commercial, and Healthcare sectors, the team continues to expand to meet growing market demand. This collaborative, highly skilled group delivers technically robust and commercially valuable outcomes for clients. Responsibilities: In this key and varied role, the successful candidate will: Secure new projects and support both existing and new clients, assisting the regional lead with delivery planning and team strategy. Lead work delivery, organisational support, and team growth to support regional and local client requirements. Demonstrate strong leadership, providing guidance, mentorship, and technical supervision to colleagues. Collaborate closely with other teams and discipline leads to ensure efficient project delivery and workload planning. Recruit, train, and develop team members, supporting long-term succession planning and professional growth. Undertake detailed design, technical specification, and site monitoring activities. Monitor commissioning processes and deliver post-occupancy engineering services. Prepare technical documentation including feasibility studies, condition surveys, and investigative reports. Liaise directly with clients, demonstrating strong commercial awareness and project management skills. The role involves leading small to medium-sized projects, typically valued up to several million pounds, and providing technical support to asset owners, landlords, managing agents, project managers, and end users. The project portfolio is primarily UK-based, with occasional international opportunities. Operational Assets – Core Service Areas: The team operates across three primary service streams: 1. Decarbonisation, Performance Improvement & Energy Reduction Delivering energy efficiency, building performance enhancement, and net-zero strategies through pragmatic engineering solutions and emerging technologies, from strategic planning to implementation. 2. Design Specialising in complex existing buildings across all RIBA stages, delivering creative and sustainable design solutions that modernise and enhance building services systems to meet current standards and operational demands. 3. Property Consultancy Providing technical advisory services to support property management, asset operation, and transactional processes, including: Technical due diligence (vendor and pre-acquisition) Dilapidations surveys Planned preventative maintenance reporting Licences to Alter Maintenance inspections Validation management Asset registers Troubleshooting Energy optimisation surveys EPC assessments Projects span a diverse range of sectors including Commercial Offices, Retail, Residential, Education, Healthcare, Justice, Defence, Heritage, Industrial, and Technology. Requirements: To succeed in this role, candidates will ideally demonstrate: Chartered status or progress towards chartership as a qualified design engineer. Strong experience working on refurbishment and fit-out projects within existing buildings. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Strong knowledge of building data analytics and metering systems. Proven experience in performance specification, detailed design, contract administration, and site supervision. Broad knowledge of building services engineering, with strong expertise in a primary discipline and sound understanding of secondary disciplines. Solid working knowledge of UK and relevant EU regulations, standards, and design guidance. Strong organisational, planning, and time-management skills. Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to influence, collaborate, and build long-term client relationships. Demonstrable experience in work-winning and team leadership.
- to £65k + benefits
- Beeby Anderson Recruitment
- Birmingham, West Midlands, England
- Salary to £65k + benefits
- Company Beeby Anderson Recruitment
- Location Birmingham, West Midlands, England
2 days ago
Principal/Associate Engineer - Operational Assets
Client: The client is a human-centric and planet-conscious engineering consultancy, delivering intelligent and sustainable solutions to complex design challenges across the built environment, throughout the UK and internationally. They provide a comprehensive range of engineering and consultancy services, including acoustics, air quality, building services (MEP), fire, lighting, security, and sustainability. Their highly skilled teams combine technical excellence with problem-solving expertise to bring buildings to life, ensuring exceptional design quality and operational performance that meets the needs of the communities they serve. The client is committed to fostering an inclusive, supportive environment where individuals can realise their full potential. Employees benefit from a culture that promotes wellbeing, professional development, and individuality. Their benefits package includes a 9-day fortnight scheme, thriving community groups, varied social and networking events, structured professional and technical development programmes, private medical cover, an electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme, stock options, and up to 30 days of annual leave. Their ambition is to empower everyone to develop their knowledge, perform at their best, and enjoy meaningful and rewarding careers. Role: The client has an exciting opportunity for a Principal/Associate Engineer to join their Operational Assets team, based in their Oxford office. This role is ideally suited to individuals who are passionate about existing buildings, enjoy developing innovative and pragmatic solutions to complex operational challenges, and are motivated by using real-time building data to help drive progress towards net-zero outcomes. The newly established Operational Assets team brings together property consultants, design engineers, and data-led building performance specialists to deliver a holistic service offering across the full building lifecycle. The team works closely with clients to embed themselves within asset portfolios, developing sustainable roadmaps and supporting projects from concept through implementation and ongoing operation. With a strong track record across the Residential, Commercial, and Healthcare sectors, the team continues to expand to meet growing market demand. This collaborative, highly skilled group delivers technically robust and commercially valuable outcomes for clients. Responsibilities: In this key and varied role, the successful candidate will: Secure new projects and support both existing and new clients, assisting the regional lead with delivery planning and team strategy. Lead work delivery, organisational support, and team growth to support regional and local client requirements. Demonstrate strong leadership, providing guidance, mentorship, and technical supervision to colleagues. Collaborate closely with other teams and discipline leads to ensure efficient project delivery and workload planning. Recruit, train, and develop team members, supporting long-term succession planning and professional growth. Undertake detailed design, technical specification, and site monitoring activities. Monitor commissioning processes and deliver post-occupancy engineering services. Prepare technical documentation including feasibility studies, condition surveys, and investigative reports. Liaise directly with clients, demonstrating strong commercial awareness and project management skills. The role involves leading small to medium-sized projects, typically valued up to several million pounds, and providing technical support to asset owners, landlords, managing agents, project managers, and end users. The project portfolio is primarily UK-based, with occasional international opportunities. Operational Assets – Core Service Areas: The team operates across three primary service streams: 1. Decarbonisation, Performance Improvement & Energy Reduction Delivering energy efficiency, building performance enhancement, and net-zero strategies through pragmatic engineering solutions and emerging technologies, from strategic planning to implementation. 2. Design Specialising in complex existing buildings across all RIBA stages, delivering creative and sustainable design solutions that modernise and enhance building services systems to meet current standards and operational demands. 3. Property Consultancy Providing technical advisory services to support property management, asset operation, and transactional processes, including: Technical due diligence (vendor and pre-acquisition) Dilapidations surveys Planned preventative maintenance reporting Licences to Alter Maintenance inspections Validation management Asset registers Troubleshooting Energy optimisation surveys EPC assessments Projects span a diverse range of sectors including Commercial Offices, Retail, Residential, Education, Healthcare, Justice, Defence, Heritage, Industrial, and Technology. Requirements: To succeed in this role, candidates will ideally demonstrate: Chartered status or progress towards chartership as a qualified design engineer. Strong experience working on refurbishment and fit-out projects within existing buildings. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Strong knowledge of building data analytics and metering systems. Proven experience in performance specification, detailed design, contract administration, and site supervision. Broad knowledge of building services engineering, with strong expertise in a primary discipline and sound understanding of secondary disciplines. Solid working knowledge of UK and relevant EU regulations, standards, and design guidance. Strong organisational, planning, and time-management skills. Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to influence, collaborate, and build long-term client relationships. Demonstrable experience in work-winning and team leadership.
- to £70k + benefits
- Beeby Anderson Recruitment
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
- Salary to £70k + benefits
- Company Beeby Anderson Recruitment
- Location Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
2 days ago
Intermediate Electrical Engineer
Client: Successful sustainability-driven MEPH consultancy that helps to design, deliver and manage technical engineering solutions to the built environment. They have an enviable client base of blue-chip international companies, including global property advisors, institutional fund managers and facilities management organisations. They deliver asset performance management through applied building physics and traditional MEP consultancy, using a ‘software first’ approach. A team of intelligent, passionate and dedicated professionals who are all experts in their fields. Their approach is to provide an exceptional level of service, delivered by experienced professionals, whilst ensuring solutions are practical, simple to understand and tailored to each client’s specific requirements. Role: To support growth in the business, they are seeking a highly motivated and talented Intermediate Electrical Engineer. This position offers a very exciting opportunity to work with high-profile blue-chip companies delivering a broad spectrum of sustainability services. This is a fantastic opportunity to join in a role that offers great career potential. Passion and a determination to deliver excellence are essential qualities, as is a commercially astute and innovative approach to delivering client solutions. The role is hybrid working (depending on the geographic location of the successful candidate). UK-wide travel will be required, as will periodic attendance to our head office located in Shrewsbury, West-Midlands. Responsibilities: This is a varied and exciting opportunity for an experienced Intermediate Electrical Engineer who has the drive and passion to make an immediate impact on a small, growing business. The core responsibilities will include, but are not limited to: Design of low-voltage electrical installations, typically working from RIBA work-stage 0 to 5. Working with the team on the design of electrical infrastructures, to include cable sizing, load calculations, and marking up general arrangement/layout drawings. Work with the team to develop real building lifecycle and upgrade strategies contributing to improved energy performance. Delivery of sustainability accreditations and supporting documentation (such as BREEAM). Supporting the delivery of energy efficiency solutions to clients to reduce operational costs and improve building asset ratings. Supporting project teams by way of quality monitoring of contractor design/development, calculations, and their physical installations. Essential Skills: Minimum of three years industry experience working in building services electrical design. Formal qualifications in electrical design. A degree is not essential providing a track record of practical training and qualification has been completed. Strong analytical skills, ability to recognise and solve problems. Ability to coordinate electrical requirements with associated MEP skillsets/requirements. Highly articulate and numerate. Strong leadership skills with the ability to engage and drive within complex and agile team structures. Ability to prepare technical specification documents, such as scoping of works. Ability to contribute to written reports and presentations for a diverse range of audiences. An autonomous approach, with the capability of planning one’s own workload (recognising deadlines) and communicating effectively. Good IT skills (Word/Excel/Microsoft Office). Full UK driving licence. Desired Skills: Membership of a professional engineering body (such as MCIBSE or MIET). Experience in the design of fire safety systems. Experience in the design of low-voltage switch panel systems. Experience in the design of building energy management systems (BEMS) and control panels/control strategies. Proficient in software packages such as Amtech and Autocad/Revit. Benefits: Work as part of a small, close-knit team of dedicated and enthusiastic professionals. Opportunity to work with large, blue chip clients. Excellent ongoing professional development support, with training allowance. An incredibly varied role, with lots of opportunity to make a difference to different areas of the business. 25 days annual leave per year plus public holiday entitlement. Employee pension scheme (after qualifying period). Company health care scheme (after qualifying period). Discretionary bonus
- to £48k + benefits
- Beeby Anderson Recruitment
- Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
- Salary to £48k + benefits
- Company Beeby Anderson Recruitment
- Location Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
2 days ago
Civil Engineer – Highways & Infrastructure
Civil Engineer – Highways & Infrastructure Location: Gateshead Salary: Competitive + Bonus + Benefits Type: Permanent An established and growing transport planning and infrastructure consultancy is looking to appoint a Civil Engineer to join their team in Gateshead. The business operates across multiple UK offices and delivers transport planning, highways design, drainage and development infrastructure solutions for a wide range of private developers and public sector clients. This role offers the opportunity to work on a diverse portfolio of development projects while progressing within a collaborative consultancy environment. The Role You will play a key role in the design and delivery of highways infrastructure projects, supporting schemes from concept through to detailed design and approval. Responsibilities include: Delivering Section 278 and Section 38 highways design projects Preparing and reviewing technical drawings, designs and reports Ensuring designs comply with DMRB, MCHW and local authority standards Managing project delivery to programme and budget Coordinating with internal teams and external stakeholders Supporting the wider team with projects across multiple offices Promoting innovation, quality and continuous improvement Ensuring compliance with CDM regulations and health & safety requirements Requirements Essential Experience delivering Section 278 / Section 38 highway schemes Strong highways design experience Working knowledge of DMRB and relevant highway standards Experience delivering projects to programme and budget Proficiency with Civil 3D Ability to work independently and provide technical input to clients Desirable Experience preparing cost estimates Membership of a relevant professional institution Full UK driving licence Benefits Annual bonus and profit share Private medical insurance Private dental insurance Company pension Cycle to work scheme Life insurance Additional leave Free parking Company events
- £30000 - £40000 per annum
- RGB Network
- Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England
- Salary £30000 - £40000 per annum
- Company RGB Network
- Location Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England
3 days ago
Senior Electrical Engineer (Data Centre)
Your new company Join a leading building services consultancy with a reputation for delivering mission-critical data centre projects across the UK and Europe. Their portfolio includes hyperscale facilities for global tech giants, multi-megawatt data halls, and cutting-edge colocation sites. This is an opportunity to work with a team that sets the benchmark for technical excellence and innovation in the data centre sector. Your new role As a Senior or Principal Electrical Engineer, you will play a key role in designing and delivering complex electrical systems for large-scale data centres. You'll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure resilient, high-performance solutions for some of the most advanced facilities in the industry. What you'll need to succeed Strong experience in HV, LV, generators, and UPS systems, or a willingness to learn and develop in these areas. Proven background in electrical design within building services. Ability to manage projects and mentor junior engineers. UK-based and eligible to work in the UK. Must have Critical Systems exp What you'll get in return Competitive salary (£60k-£75k) plus benefits. Hybrid working - 2-3 days in the office. Exposure to high-profile, future-proof projects in a rapidly growing sector. Career progression and training opportunities in data centre design. What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call Adam Smeddle on 0207 2598760. If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk
- £60000 - £75000 per annum + Up to £75,000 DOE
- Hays
- England, London, London (Greater), England
- Salary £60000 - £75000 per annum + Up to £75,000 DOE
- Company Hays
- Location England, London, London (Greater), England