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Principal/Associate Mechanical Engineer

Bournemouth

£60,000 - £80,000


A fantastic career opportunity has arisen for a creative and driven Principal or Associate Mechanical Engineer to join a leading MEP Consultancy based in Bournemouth.  You will be responsible for meeting with Clients, producing reports, specifications, and drawings, and delivering successful projects from inception to completion. 

an award-winning engineering consultancy with a creative team of engineers, designers, and technical specialists. Irrespective of the scale or complexity of a project, we provide a full range of MEP, environmental and sustainability services, bringing buildings to life and ensuring that they perform in operation as well as they look.

What you’ll be doing

• You will be in a client-facing role, attending project meetings and disseminating the brief within the project team. You will need to be of personable nature and a good communicator.
• You will be predominately working on healthcare projects.
• You will lead the development of initial strategic concepts for projects ensuring solutions are appropriate for the brief and regulatory standards.
• Taking responsibility for solid technical delivery in your work either alone or part of a team.
• Engage with junior support staff in their day-to-day activities and offer advice and guidance to ensure that they develop their skills, and we get the best out of our people.
• You will be financially astute and work with the team leader to help monitor fee expenditure, resource and work delivered. 
• Looking at new ways of working and taking time out for innovation and research ensuring we keep abreast of our competitors.
• Creating and maintaining a high reputation within the industry, and to ensure adherence to QM and risk control procedures is also a very important part of the role.

• Suitably qualified Mechanical Engineering, Building Services Engineers degree or equivalent qualification preferable but not essential. 
• Chartered Engineer status, or working towards submission, to either CIBSE or IMechE, or equivalent.
• Previous consultancy or contracting experience in some or all of the following:  M&E Design & Specification, Surveying & Reporting and Project Management.
• You will have experience working in a multi-disciplinary environment, with excellent communication skills with both internal and external clients and a team-based work approach; you will appreciate that holistic working is central to good design, and you will have experience in healthcare projects.

• Income protection
• Travel Allowance
• 25 days annual leave, increasing to 30 with the length of service
• Contributory pension scheme
• Enhanced Paternity, Maternity & Shared Parental Leave
• Season Ticket Loans
• Flexitime

• 9-day fortnight – the firm offers all employees the option to work a 9-day fortnight
• Hybrid Working – activity-based approach
• Holiday buy & sell up to 5 days
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Referral Scheme
• Sabbatical Leave