Mission Critical Mechanical Building Services Lead

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AtkinsRéalis is a leading provider of innovative solutions in the mission critical sector. We are committed to delivering exceptional services to our clients, ensuring their data centres operate efficiently and effectively. We are looking for a dynamic and experienced Mechanical Building Services Lead to join our team and help to drive our growth in this sector. The Mission Critical Mechanical Lead will be responsible for developing and executing technical excellence within the mission critical market. This role requires a deep understanding of the data centre mechanical cooling design & associated building services, strong project leadership skills and the ability to collaborate across multiple disciplines to achieve project success for our clients.

Your Purpose:

• Client Development: Identify and establish relationships with key external stakeholders in the client data centre project teams. Nurture and enhance relationships with existing clients.
• Technical Excellence: Develop and maintain technical design standards. Provide and supervise on guidance presenting thoughts within our internal national technical forums. Extend this thought to engage with our clients in securing new business opportunities.
• Resource: Within the mission critical mechanical team, setup and maintain technical capability for our engineers. Be the point of contact within the business for technical design support.
• Technology Analysis: Conduct market research to identify trends, opportunities, competitor activities, and competitive landscape. Provide insights and recommendations to senior management. Provide strategic partnerships with the supply chain at regional and national level.
• Collaboration: Work closely with internal teams, including architecture and engineering, sales, and project management, to ensure a cohesive approach to client engagement and project delivery.
• Project Delivery: Work with the multi-disciplinary project delivery teams to deliver design for our clients. Within this element, provide project management experience to deliver the services to align with both the client and business objectives. This will require financial accountability.
• Reporting: Prepare and present regular reports on technical development activities and progress, project health, supplier engagements, and mission critical technical trends.

What you can bring:

• Education - Bachelor's degree in Engineering, or a related field. Chartered status preferred.
• Strong understanding of the data centre technical detailed design requirements.
• Excellent communication, and presentation skills in developing others. Be prepared to present to the national team and externally at conferences.
• Proven track record of successfully delivering large and complex projects (>£100m) whilst developing client relationships.
• Established network of contacts within the mission critical sector.
• Ability to work collaboratively across multiple disciplines.
• Strong leadership and team management skills.

Why work for AtkinsRéalis?

We're ranked as one of LinkedIn's Top 25 Companies, where UK professionals want to work and stay once they join. We've also made the Times Top 50 employers for women. Our Infrastructure team uses innovation, new approaches and the power of data to help our clients deliver end-to-end projects and programmes for essential future infrastructure. And as the work becomes ever more complex, our employees continue to challenge the status quo. We're committed to engineering better for people and our planet, from our global Engineering Net-Zero programme to creating social value through EDAROTH community housing. We're proud of our active employee networks creating awareness and allyship for our under-represented groups.

Security clearance: This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer.

We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop. To help embed inclusion for all, from day one, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability.