Electrical Building Services Engineer in Cardiff

Techniche Global is supporting a major global engineering, design consultancy to appoint an Electrical Building Services Engineer. This role will encompass a multi‑sector experience, but expertise from working within the Commercial, Healthcare, Residential, Blue Light, Heritage, Education or Rail sectors might be a benefit. The opportunity will require candidates to be client‑facing as well as being involved in the day‑to‑day design of projects. It is an exciting opportunity for a design engineer to further develop their career within a leading building design consultancy.

Key details:

• Rate: up to 55p/ hr UMB (inside IR35)
• Location: Cardiff or Swansea – hybrid (3 days onsite / 2 days WFH)
• Duration: 6 months initially with the potential to extend
• Working Hours: 37.5 hours per week
• Eligible for SC Clearance (sole British, dual national or ILR visa holder who has worked and lived in the UK for the past 5 years)

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring an understanding of project briefs.
• Design and specification of all Electrical Building Services systems – power, earthing, lighting, life safety, telecoms, security, access control, lifts, lightning protection etc.
• Carry out the production of detailed calculations using industry standard Electrical Engineering software tools.
• Preparing technical specifications using NBS.
• Work in partnership with the Company’s international Global Technology Centre (GTC) to add value to building services projects where appropriate including briefing, responding to queries and reviewing output.
• Collaborate with our BIM team to prepare models and drawings, with a working understanding / knowledge of Autodesk Revit; note experience of Microstation (& AECOsim) could be beneficial.
• Representing the Company at meetings with clients and contractors.
• Site surveys, inspections and monitor site works.
• Report and technical note writing.
• Maintaining complete records and archives to company standards.
• Adherence to all quality, environmental & governance processes.
• Managing own workload, updating forward plan of workload regularly and working to time allocations.
• Managing elements of project delivery and an understanding of budget costings.
• Reviewing progress, including reporting any anomalies and changes of scope to the project lead.
• Assist with technical development of junior staff.

Requirements:

• Degree qualified, or equivalent qualification, in Building Services Engineering / Electrical Engineering or related subjects.
• Chartered Engineer (or working towards CEng) with CIBSE or IET.
• Good level of computer literacy in a range of digital tools including Amtech/Prodesign, Dialux/Relux, NBS and Microsoft packages.
• Any HV tools will also be beneficial.
• Aware of energy reduction methods and approaches to decarbonising new and existing buildings.
• Some knowledge of energy and carbon related data capture and analytics.
• Awareness of the principles of building physics such as passive design solutions and fabric first approaches.
• Some awareness of designing for measurement and verification, including experience of commissioning and post installation evaluation of performance.
• Experience of working in a design consultancy and/or some experience of working within a contractor design environment is beneficial.
• Good knowledge of appropriate technical standards.
• Able to take charge of personal project deliverables, make decisions on developing the discipline design elements, act on own initiative and operate in a pro‑active way.
• Good report writing skills, experience of making presentations to and attending meetings with clients will be useful.
• Comfortable working within time and cost budgets as agreed at project briefing meetings.
• Undertake any other reasonable tasks or duties as required by the management team from time to time, in order to maintain flexibility in the organisation.
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