Senior Mechanical Building Services Engineer in Edinburgh

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

The Buildings Unit (BLD) has a major presence in Mott MacDonald's regional offices throughout the UK and mainland Europe, providing a wide range of diverse and transferable cross-sector skills across five key sectors: Advisory, Built Environment, Energy, Transportation, and Water. We also provide local services to customers and technical leadership to the rest of the Group in these sectors.

We are seeking a Senior Mechanical Building Services Engineer to join our successful Building Services team. The role provides the opportunity to work on an exciting range of projects in both private and public sector, including major framework & infrastructure developments in addition to one-off projects. The role will be challenging, varied and offer opportunities for skills development and career development.

As a Senior Mechanical Engineer, your role will include:

• Assessing and understanding project requirements.
• Undertaking mechanical design across a number of disciplines.
• Agreeing timescales and specifications with design teams, clients, and managers.
• Leading and directing junior staff.
• Preparing documents, reports, and health and safety risk assessments.
• Interpreting commercial and/or contractual aspects of correspondence with or between fellow professionals on multidisciplinary projects.

Key responsibilities and duties include:

• Managing the delivery of assigned mechanical and building services elements of multi-disciplinary projects across a range of sectors including Built Environment, Healthcare, Education, Industrial, Energy, Water, Transportation, and Advisory.
• Working and liaising with associated engineering disciplines as part of delivering projects.
• Dealing with and managing internal and external stakeholders.
• Carrying out design and calculation work using relevant industry software (IES, Revit etc).
• Demonstrating technical expertise, providing in-depth knowledge whilst proactively coaching and developing more junior team members.
• Developing, maintaining, and monitoring programmes for scheduling and reporting on deliverables across specific projects.
• Maximising profitability of projects, monitoring against budget, reacting and anticipating potential problems and communicating in line with client expectations.

Candidate specification

Essential:

• A degree in building services engineering specialising in mechanical services.
• Chartered Engineer CEng (or in the process of attaining chartership).
• Ability to lead on Mechanical services and some multi-disciplinary projects.
• Enthusiastic and ambitious.
• Excellent communication skills, including report writing and presentation.
• Experience of managing client relationships and expectations.

Desirable:

• Experience of mentoring and leading graduate engineers.

Please be advised that offers for this role are conditional upon obtaining the appropriate level of Security Clearance.

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• Financial wellbeing: We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level.
• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Primary annual professional institution subscription.

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