Electrical Building Services Engineer

Techniche Global Ltd

Techniche Global are supporting a major global engineering, design consultancy to appoint an Electrical Building Services Engineer. This role will encompass a multi-sector experience, but expertise from working within the Commercial, Healthcare, Residential, Blue Light, Heritage, Education or Rail sectors might be a benefit. The opportunity will require candidates to be client-facing as well as being involved in the day-to-day design of projects. It is an exciting opportunity for a design engineer to further develop their career within a leading building design consultancy.   
Rate:                    up to 55p/ hr UMB (inside IR35)
Location:             Cardiff or Swansea - hybrid (3 days onsite/ 2 days WFH)
Duration:             6 months initially with the potential to extend
Working Hours:  37.5 hours per week
Requirements: Eligible for SC Clearance (sole British, dual national or ILR visa holder who has worked and lived in the UK for the past 5 years)
  
Responsibilities:
  • Ensuring an understanding of project briefs.
  • Design and specification of all Electrical Building Services systems - power, earthing, lighting, life safety, telecoms, security, access control, lifts, lightning protection etc.
  • Carry out the production of detailed calculations using industry standard Electrical Engineering software tools.
  • Preparing technical specifications using NBS.
  • Work in partnership with The Company’s international Global Technology Centre (GTC) to add value to building services projects where appropriate including briefing, responding to Queries and reviewing output.
  • Collaborate with our BIM team to prepare models and drawings, with a working understanding / knowledge of Autodesk Revit – note experience of Microstation (& AECOsim) could be beneficial.
  • Representing The Company at meetings with clients and contractors.
  • Site surveys, inspections and monitor site works.
  • Report and technical note writing.
  • Maintaining complete records and archives to company standards.
  • Adherence to all quality, environmental & governance processes.
  • Managing own workload, updating forward plan of workload regularly and working to time allocations.
  • Managing elements of project delivery and an understanding of budget costings.
  • Reviewing progress, including reporting any anomalies and changes of scope to the project lead.
  • Assist with technical development of junior staff.
  
Requirements:
  • Degree qualified, or equivalent qualification, in Building Services Engineering / Electrical Engineering or related subjects.
  • Chartered Engineer (or working towards CEng) with CIBSE or IET.
  • Good level of computer literacy in a range of digital tools including Amtech/Prodesign, Dialux/Relux, NBS and Microsoft packages. Any HV tools will also be beneficial.
  • Aware of energy reduction methods and approaches to decarbonising new and existing buildings.
  • Some knowledge of energy and carbon related data capture and analytics. Awareness of the principles of building physics such as passive design solutions and fabric first approaches.
  • Some awareness of designing for measurement and verification, including experience of commissioning and post installation evaluation of performance.
  • Experience of working in a design consultancy and/or some experience of working within a contractor design environment is beneficial.
  • Good knowledge of appropriate technical standards.
  • Able to take charge of personal project deliverables, make decisions on developing the discipline design elements, act on own initiative and operate in a pro-active way.
  • Good report writing skills, experience of making presentations to and attending meetings with clients will be useful.
  • Comfortable working within time and cost budgets as agreed at project briefing meetings.
  • Undertake any other reasonable tasks or duties as required by the management team from time to time, in order to maintain flexibility in the organisation.
  • Battery Storage / Photovoltaic Energy design / Assessment.
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