Associate / Associate Director Public Health Engineer

Job Description

The role as well as leading and delivering Public Health Engineering projects is to lead and develop the regional Public Health engineering capability and develop an integrated capability across the regions. The business currently capability is Epsom andLondon centric.. Our ideal individual will bring strong technical skills to the role, as well as an enquiring mind able to contribute to the growth of our digital practice, and the potential to lead and manage large and diverse delivery teams, locally and remotely.People:

• Generates good working relationships with internal and external clients and develops a client relationship management strategy.
• Provides management, motivation, inspiration and supervision for the Public Health team engaged on projects.
• Undertakes appraisals and personal development plans for selected team members.

Technical knowledge of the following systems:

• Assumes full technical responsibility and operational accountability for teams output on projects.
• Comfortable in communicating and challenging other design team members to arrive at the optimum Building Services design solution.
• Has an engineering design background and able to fully demonstrate an ability to design and lead Public Health Discipline, a Building Services teams and/or Multi-Discipline teams.
• Extensive Public Health design experience in the construction industry.
• Able to demonstrate a full understanding of the key Building Services design considerations when working on projects and familiar with relevant industry standards and guidelines.
• To be fully conversant in all Public Health systems.
• Above (and below) ground drainage.
• Hot & cold-water systems, inc. wash down points in plantrooms & cleaners’ cupboards.
• Drain venting.
• Rainwater pipe work to ground level.
• Blue roofs.
• Grey and Black water system.
• Gas supplies to the buildings.
• Water storage.
• Sprinklers.
• Operational testing/witnessing of the above systems.
• 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.

Requirements:

• Degree qualified, or equivalent qualification, in Building Services Engineering / Mechanical Engineering or related subjects.
• Chartered Engineer (or working towards) with CIBSE or IMechE.
• Good level of computer literacy in a range of digital tools including Revit, NBS and Microsoft packages.
• Familiar with energy reduction methods and approaches to decarbonising new and existing buildings and understanding of energy and hot water design implications.
• Awareness of the principles LETI targets and an understanding of operational and embodied carbon in relation to public health engineering.
• Experienced in designing for measurement and verification, including experience of commissioning and post installation evaluation of performance.
• Experience of working in a design consultancy and/or experience of working within a contractor design environment is essential.
• 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.