Mott MacDonald is a wholly independent, employee-owned company with 13,000 staff working in all sectors from transport, energy, buildings, water and the environment to health and education, industry and communications. Mott MacDonald's US$1.5 billion business spans 140 countries with 13,000 staff The business is continually winning commercial and Industry awards, including being ‘International Consultancy of the year’ (NCE/ACE) and being placed 8th in the UK’s Sunday Times ‘20 Best Big Companies to Work For’ survey.
Mott MacDonald has delivered prestigious Buildings projects world wide including the Manchester Civil Justice Centre, Vulcan House (home office building), Maze Sports Stadium-Belfast, Karachi Port Trust Tower (Pakistan) and the Dubai Marina. Along with these prestigious projects there is also huge breadth and depth to the projects that are delivered including Education/Health schemes, and mixed used multi-storey commercial/ residential developments.
We now require a Senior Mechanical Engineer to work on a range of challenging, dynamic and high-profile projects where you will have the ability to receive and develop a brief and contribute to the development of the design and construction process.
Job description
The successful applicant will work as part of a busy and successful team to deliver medium to large scale projects in both the public and private sector.
Principle functions will include:
• Mechanical design work for a range of projects
• Liaise with other construction professionals
• Leading small teams of engineers to deliver projects on time and to budget
• Ensuring compliance with company quality systems
• The Mechanical Engineer shall carry out Heat loss and Heat gain calculation both by static and dynamic means
• Establish the ventilation, heating and A/C layout together with all aspect of public health.
• Coordinate with the electrical design engineer and issue all information to allow electrical design to be completed
• Liaise with the design team members to convey the requirements of the M&E service to them, as well as understanding the client brief
• Write the specification for the project and establish the schedules for all equipment
• Respond to contractor queries and attend site progress meetings
Candidate specification
Essential requirements:
• BSc /BEng or HNC/D in related subject
• Experience and exposure of a range of mechanical engineering solutions
• Experience in HVAC applications
• Experience in the use of Hevacomp
• Previous client facing experience
• A strong technical focus
• Capability to work to deadlines and work autonomously when required
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
Desirable requirements:
• Chartered or on route to Chartership
• Ideally, experience working in UK Mechanical engineering involved in the lifecycles of projects
• Previous experience of leading small teams to deliver projects on time and to budget
• Experience working in or with a multi-disciplinary design consultancy
• The ability to work on own initiative on smaller projects would be an advantage
• Experience on sustainable design practice would be an advantage
• ACAD Experience
• We currently operate the NES package so experience of this would be an advantage. We also use IES simulation software for which training would be given if necessary |
