BMS Consultant in St Albans

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Join AECOM’s Building Engineering Division as a BMS Consultant, where you’ll play a key role in shaping the design, implementation, and optimisation of building management systems across a wide range of sectors—from office fit-outs and mixed‑use developments to industrial facilities, government, and commercial projects. This is a chance to lead innovation, deliver cutting‑edge smart building solutions, and make a tangible impact on the built environment.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Lead the design and oversee contractor implementation of BMS systems, ensuring they meet client needs, regulatory requirements, and sustainability goals.
• Engage with stakeholders at all levels, including clients, architects, M&E teams, contractors, and senior management, building strong relationships and providing expert advice.
• Manage complex projects from start to finish: conducting feasibility studies, developing specifications and point schedules, tender management, cost and bid analysis, and progress reporting.
• Conduct system surveys, assessments, and FAT/SAT testing, providing clear reports, recommendations, and training for clients to optimise performance and efficiency.
• Drive business development, mentor and grow the BMS team, manage knowledge sharing, and contribute to innovation in smart building technologies.
• Promote Safety, Health & Environmental (SH&E) best practices, solving technical challenges while ensuring compliance and fostering a culture of safety.
• Support the integration of mechanical, electrical, and control systems, applying expertise in open communication standards and advanced BMS technologies such as Trend, Tridium, and Niagara.
• Occasionally travel nationally to project sites and AECOM offices, while balancing office‑based work with flexible remote working arrangements.

Come grow with us: Enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well‑being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work‑life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

Qualifications:

• Strong technical expertise in BMS, mechanical & electrical systems, with experience in control systems, commissioning, and smart building technology.
• Proven ability to lead teams, manage projects nationally, handle workload, finances, and stakeholder engagement.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, able to work with clients, architects, M&E contractors, and senior stakeholders.
• Knowledge of open communication standards, BMS trends, and innovative smart building solutions.
• HNC or degree in building services, electrical engineering, or computer science; BMS experience with Trend, Tridium, or Niagara; competent in cause & effect matrices, specifications, and commissioning.
• Chartered status or working toward it, with security clearance (or willing to obtain).

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well‑being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours. We are a Disability‑Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long‑term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role.