Associate Electrical Engineer

Buro Happold is recruiting for an Associate level Electrical Engineer to join our award winning and dynamic
Building Environments
team in our Londonoffice.

This role is suited to a candidate from a Buildings background looking for an opportunity to pursue industry leading designs within a vibrant multi-disciplinary practice.

This role will see you leading MEP projects, along with inputting to, and assisting with leading the electrical team on projects in the London area and further afield.

We are ideally looking for a versatile candidate who wants to play an active role in technical delivery, project management, mentorship / line management, and business development.

You will be joining a growing UK MEP team of over
190
Engineers and Technicians, and drawing upon the diverse skills and knowledge of other connected disciplines, including sustainability, building physics, fire engineering, facades, lighting, technology, and more. This role will give you a wide breadth of technical exposure and enable you to push the boundaries of sustainable design.

This is an opportunity to join a talented CIBSE award winning team renowned for achieving outstanding building performance.

What sort of projects could I work on?
You will be working on some of the most technically challenging projects in our portfolio - recent examples include

• Marina Residential Tower, Athens – (Foster & Partners) – Greece's tallest building will also be an exemplar in sustainable design.
• Barbican Renewal, London – (Allies & Morrison & Asif Khan Studios) - A once in a generation opportunity to be involved in the low energy refurbishment of an iconic, unapologetically modernist building.
• Canning Town Masterplan – (Jestico & Whiles) – As part of our multidisciplinary design team supporting the development of an estate regeneration masterplan on a 10ha site with a brief to deliver 1,750 homes.

Buro Happold's London Building Services team continues to deliver cutting edge design solutions which encourage the efficient use of materials, energy and natural resources.

Teamwork and a collaborative approach are key to any project at Buro Happold, so your strong communication skills and passion to succeed with others will serve you well.

This key role will have a variety of day-to-day responsibilities including:

• Contribute to leading the electrical team and take a project leadership role as required.
• Communicating directly with Clients, offering innovative design solutions and managing expectations. Further developing relationships with existing and new clients including contractors, architects and developers.
• Preparing technical and financial proposals for new work.
• Managing workload of engineers and technicians
• Preparing Technical Specifications.
• Monitor financial performance of jobs as well as setting up and managing job/project administrative systems, including planning and monitoring job resourcing/expenditure.

Skills & Experience:

• As a talented building services engineer, it is expected that you would be able to demonstrate...
• Extensive electrical design experience in an MEP consultancy, with experience acting as project leader.
• Diverse sector experience, ideally with large scale project experience.
• Strong interpersonal and organisational skills, able to develop relationships with clients, architects and other team members.
• Bachelors or master's degree in engineering
• Professionally registered with a relevant institution; e.g. CIBSE, IMechE, etc.
• Although electrically biased it is expected that you will have a good understanding of other design disciplines.
• A Bachelor's degree BEng/BSc or Master's degree MEng/MSc in a relevant discipline.

Why Buro Happold?
From helping shape entire cities to adapting infrastructure to deal with the climate emergency, a career at Buro Happold presents the chance to make a difference. With a world class reputation, our creativity and our people have delivered positive change to clients, the environment, and communities. If you want to be part of something bigger, this is your chance.

What we offer:

• Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world's most respected consultancies.
• Hybrid working arrangements
• Attractive salary
• 10% Car Allowance
• Discretionary bonus
• Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements
• Generous company pension scheme, life assurance and income protection
• Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts
• Enhanced parenthood leave policies
• A strong commitment to continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you
• Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions
• A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities
• An opportunity to support your local community and those in society that are most in need, wherever they are located in the world through our Share Our Skills (SOS) programme
• A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring
• An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won't be far from exceptional.

A place for everyone
Buro Happold values an individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of the way you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other's differences is key, we want employees to feel they don't have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing difference allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.

Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.