Mechanical Associate - Building Services Engineering (MEP)

Building Services Engineering is about bringing the space and its occupants together through highly considered and effective system design, providing an immersive, user-friendly environment. At Meinhardt, we embrace this challenge. Concerns over a building’s energy use and carbon footprint have empowered our engineers to seek new and exciting ways to challenge design. Buildings are the largest energy consumer and contributor to CO2 emissions globally, a climate emergency condition that we take very seriously in our design ethos.

Reporting to the Associate Director, you will be required to:

• Project Role

Responsible for managing all aspects of a portfolio of jobs as Project Manager in conjunction with a Project Director. On some projects, provide the principal contact to Clients as Project Director with only mentoring support from a Director. Core responsibilities include:

• Job profitability
• Job cash flow
• Be able to motivate and lead multidisciplinary professional teams to deliver Client solutions
• Be commercially astute
• Be experienced and competent at:

• Presenting to Clients
• Preparing Client/project proposals
• Negotiating fee proposals and requesting additional fees where possible
• Constructing project teams from internal and external resources
• Procuring project resources
• Planning projects

• Company Role

Hold regular team meetings. Be responsible for leading a team of engineers, supported by an Associate Director involving:

• Motivate team
• Training and development
• Managing day-to-day work
• Team profitability
• Resource planning and management
• Developing and guiding Senior Engineers
• Applying policies relating to health and safety, quality and training.

Have a clear understanding of company financial indicators and our business plan. Contribute to the strategic direction of the business by playing a key role in the development of company procedures. Be champions in their specialist field. Be able to present to and advise Clients on all engineering issues including concept design, detailed design, procurement routes, risk assessment and claim assessment. Have a detailed knowledge of analytical concepts. Have a detailed knowledge of our delivery in CAD standards, 3D working.

• Business Development

Win business and develop new Clients and/or build business with existing Clients with annual targets to be agreed. Be an ambassador for the Company.

Key Skills/Experience

Qualifications: On average a minimum of 10 years’ experience as a Chartered Engineer. Have a proven track record in design and project delivery with different types of M&E systems, serving various types of building and under various types of procurement. Have a proven record as a Project Engineer.

Company benefits include:

• Annual Leave of 20 days plus bank holidays
• Three days of additional holiday at Christmas. This is non-contractual, the dates are set by the company and these three days are not counted in your annual leave allowance within your contract.
• Life Assurance and Payment Protection Cover
• Group Income Protection scheme, including access to Legal & General health and wellbeing services
• Four company socials per year
• Professional membership cost covered (two per year at this level).
• Birthday leave – an additional day off on your birthday (to be taken in the month of your birthday).
• Alternate breakfast/lunch provided on Fridays.

Meinhardt (UK) Ltd reserves the right to alter the content of this job description to reflect changes to the job, without altering the general character or level of responsibility.

Location: Birmingham, Cambridge, Glasgow, London, Reading