Principal/Associate Mechanical Engineer

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.

We are 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