Senior Mechanical Building Services Engineer

Job Description

Mott MacDonald

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.

We are proud to be a one of Glassdoor’s top employers to work for in the UK, as well as being recognised as a Top Inclusive Company in the UK.

Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence.

About the business unit

The Buildings and Cities Unit (BNC) 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.

Overview of role

We are seeking a qualified and enthusiastic Senior Mechanical Building Services Engineer to support and develop the project delivery, technical capability, and profitability of our Building Services team in Glasgow.
As the successful candidate, you will have a strong background and proficiency in Building Services Mechanical Engineering design and good technical competences. Your strong written and verbal communication of technical issues to varied technical and non-technical audiences will be key to your success in the role.
We are passionately committed to our teams, clients and communities in Scotland, with offices in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Inverness and Lerwick. We pride ourselves in our local presence across the region and our ability to align the right combination of expertise from around the world, no matter stakeholders’ needs and ambitions.
As the successful candidate you will typically be responsible for:

• Preparation and review of documentation e.g. basis of designs, technical/design specifications, procurement specifications, assessment reports, survey reports, tailored to required stage of project completion, covering all aspects of mechanical services
• Implementation of detailed surveys of mechanical services and equipment to establish status of the existing installations and gain sufficient information to recommend new/upgrade design proposals
• Producing and reviewing mechanical design drawings incl. HVAC, water, drainage, etc.
• Producing and reviewing detailed calculations
• Producing fee estimates for work elements
• Advising on all aspects of energy consumption and utilisation with recommendations to improve energy performance
• Monitoring of the design and project management of building services elements of projects within agreed programmes
• Compliance with Construction (Design and Management) Regulations, current legislation and standards associated with all engineering aspects of delegated project

As you contribute to the collective growth of our team’s capability, we will offer you exceptional opportunities for technical and management skillset development and long term career progression.

Candidate Specification

You will be able to demonstrate technical experience in delivering a range of building accommodation and/or infrastructure projects.
Take a look at the skills, qualifications and experience we’re looking for, as listed below. Please bear in mind that you may not need to meet 100% of these to be considered for the position.

• Experience in building services within the built environment, preferably in the defence, rail, energy and healthcare sectors
• A degree in building services engineering specialising in mechanical or equivalent Building Services work experience
• Chartered Engineer, actively working towards chartership, or equivalent Building Services work experience
• Up to date knowledge of current building regulations, legislation and standards applicable in building / infrastructure design environments
• The application of BREEAM and DREAM
• Highly competent user of industry recognised software and mechanical engineer design tools including NBS Create, IES
• BIM knowledge and experience
• Self-motivated, with the ability to work on own initiative and the confidence to make decisions
• Please note applicants must be able to attain security clearance.

If you meet 80% or more of what we’re looking for, please still apply. We understand not everyone will meet all the requirements, but you might have skills we didn’t know we need.

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Equality, diversity, and inclusion

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.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Agile working

Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

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.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.