Electrical Associate – Building Services Engineering (MEP)
Building Services Engineering is about bringing the space and it’s occupants together through highly considered and effective system design, providing an immersive, user friendly environment. At Meinhardt, we embrace this challenge. Concerns over a building’s energy use and carbon footprint has empowered our engineers to seek new and exciting ways to challenge design.
Buildings are the largest energy consumer and contributor to CO2emissions globally, a climate emergency condition that we take very seriously in our design ethos.
Reporting to the Associate Director, you will be required to:
Primary Responsibilities Project Role
Responsible for managing all aspects of a portfolio of jobs as Project Manager in conjunction with a Project Director. On some projects, provide the principal contact to Clients as Project Director with only mentoring support from a Director.
Core responsibilities include:
Job profitability
Job cash flow
Be able to motivate and lead multidisciplinary professional teams to deliver Client solutions
Be commercially astute
Be experienced and competent at:
Presenting to Clients
Preparing Client/project proposals
Negotiating fee proposals and requesting additional fees where possible
Constructing project teams from internal and external resources
Procuring project resources
Planning projects
Company Role
Hold regular team meetings
Be responsible for leading a team of engineers, supported by an Associate Director involving:
Motivate team
Training and development
Managing day to day work
Team profitability
Resource planning and management
Developing and guiding Senior Engineers
Applying policies relating to health and safety, quality and training.
Have a clear understanding of company financial indicators and our business plan
Contribute to the strategic direction of the business by playing a key role in the development of company procedures
Be champions in their specialist field
Be able to present to and advise Clients on all engineering issues including concept design, detailed design, procurement routes, risk assessment and claim assessment.
Have a detailed knowledge of analytical concepts
Have a detailed knowledge of our delivery in CAD standards, 3D working
Business Development
Win business and develop new Clients and or build business with existing Clients with annual targets to be agreed
Be an ambassador for the Company
Key Skills/Experience Qualifications
On average a minimum of 10 years’ experience as a Chartered Engineer. Have a proven track record in design and project delivery with different types of M&E systems, serving various types of building and under various types of procurement.
Have a proven record as a Project Engineer
Company benefits include
Annual Leave of 20 days plus bank holidays
Three days of additional holiday at Christmas. This is non-contractual, the dates are set by the company and these three days are not counted in your annual leave allowance within your contract.
Life Assurance and Payment Protection Cover
Group Income Protection scheme, including access to Legal & General health and wellbeing services
Four company socials per year
Professional membership cost covered (two per year at this level).
Birthday leave – an additional day off on your birthday (to be taken in the month of your birthday).
Alternate breakfast/lunch provided on Friday’s
Meinhardt (UK) Ltd reserves the right to alter the content of this job description to reflect changes to the job, without altering the general character or level of responsibility.
