2027 Savills Sandwich Placement - Engineering

The Engineering Sandwich Placement Student sits within the Design & Projects team of Savills’ Engineering and Design Consultancy (EDC) team. With 48 engineering and sustainability consultants operating across a UK network, EDC are quickly developing into one of the largest engineering departments in any mainstream real estate practice with a reputation for success and professionalism.

Our EDC team provides technical expert solutions throughout the various stages of an asset’s acquisition, design, management and disposal. We have teams based in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh and Glasgow, employing the best-in-class engineering consultants, and can provide full coverage across the United Kingdom and Ireland. Our team comprises chartered engineers and experts in the core disciplines of Mechanical, Electrical and Public Health (MEP) engineering complemented by Low Carbon Consultants and inspectors with accreditation in air conditioning.

Our expertise expands to specialist areas such as IT infrastructure, BMS and Controls, Intelligent Buildings, Vertical Transportation, Security and Access Control. Our broad range of skillsets allows us to support our clients from the initial stages of a property acquisition all the way through to management and disposal. Our service offering and advice includes:

• Technical due diligence surveys
• Condition surveys and feasibility studies
• Design and projects
• Integrated systems
• Planned maintenance and lifecycle costing
• Term consultancy
• Licence to alter
• Dilapidation terminal schedules and assessments
• Vendors’ surveys and technical guidance

Our strength lies in using our technical knowledge and experience to develop solutions and deliver positive results. We work closely with all project stakeholders and always uphold a commercial mindset with consideration on financial constraints, lease breaks, dilapidations, market conditions, etc.

Our team has experience across a range of sectors including Commercial Offices, Retail, Warehouses, Residential, Hotels, Mission Critical, Life Sciences and Healthcare. Throughout your placement, you will be taught, and put into practice, engineering skills which will be key for an engineer role at Savills EDC. You will have a varied range of experience including:

• Undertaking site surveys for dilapidations
• Designing MEP systems using modern 2D and 3D software
• Attending client meetings and presenting options and solutions to the project stakeholders
• Undertaking report and specification writing

How you’ll make an impact:

• Provide input on design strategy and conceptual designs
• Undertake design calculations
• Undertake site inspections and understand its challenges
• Design installations to meet all existing, relevant British Standards, Building Regulations and other relevant standards
• Design installations to meet requirements for energy efficiency and low carbon requirements
• Work as part of a team to meet project brief and programme requirements
• Provide assistance and support to other members of the engineering team within the office
• Commit to supporting strategic sustainability policies and our internal environmental programme objectives
• Familiarise and learn about sustainable low energy initiatives and share this with other members of your team
• Ability to listen to others and collaborate effectively
• High attention to detail, well organised and a proactive approach
• Ability to challenge in a positive way
• Strong verbal, numerical and report writing skills
• A team player with leadership potential
• Ability to empower those around them
• Strategic approach to problem solving
• Highly motivated
• Computer literate

Above all, we look for individualism and diversity in our team - so it's very important, at every stage of the selection process, that you take the opportunity to show us what you're really like. Be honest and most importantly, be yourself.

Future Talent Objectives:

• Technical & Professional Knowledge - Demonstrate a strong foundational knowledge and understanding of the profession you are training within, the qualification you are completing, and the role you are undertaking.
• Business Awareness – Asks good relevant questions, demonstrating curiosity and enthusiasm to know about the business.
• Work Quality – Accurately completes tasks on time, with guidance from team members where required.
• Time Management – Maintain good time keeping, both personally and professionally.
• Effective Communication – Begin building effective working relationships with colleagues across the team and wider business.

Key skills:

• Decision Making
• Collaboration
• Building Relationships
• Planning and Organising
• Adaptability
• Resilience

Benefits:

• 1 Year Contract
• Company mobile phone and Laptop
• 25 days annual leave
• Sports activities (Hockey, Netball, Skiing, Rugby, Football, Cricket, Badminton)
• Employee Assistance Programme – A 24 hour service available to all staff and completely confidential

Training: Our training and development programme is highly regarded as one of the best in the property industry, and is geared towards enabling our sandwich placement students to reach their full potential.

Find your place to thrive: Savills is an organisation full of extraordinary individuals. Brilliant people at the forefront of their specialisms, eager to drive progress for themselves, their colleagues and our business as part of a truly inclusive culture.

Right to work in the UK and employment offer: Any employment offer made is contingent on you obtaining and maintaining the right to work and reside legally in the UK. We welcome applications from candidates who have their own right to work within the UK, where you can maintain and demonstrate your right to work throughout the duration of your employment.

No matter the role you’re in, we all share one purpose: to help people thrive through places and spaces. This is built into our DNA, shaping the way we behave to deliver the best results. We define it by four key values: We listen, We empower, We challenge, We collaborate.