Senior Mechanical Building Services Engineer

Location/s: Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cambridge, Manchester; UK
Recruiter contact: Andrea Gaffney

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. 

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual. 

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

About the business unit  
The Buildings Unit (BLD) has a major presence in Mott MacDonald's regional offices throughout the UK and mainland Europe, providing a wide range of diverse and transferable cross-sector skills across five key Sectors; Advisory, Built Environment, Energy, Transportation and Water. We also provide local services to customers and technical leadership to the rest of the Group in these sectors.   

Overview of the role

We are seeking a Senior Mechanical Building Services Engineer to join our successful Building Services team. The role provides the opportunity to work on an exciting range of projects in both private and public sector, including major framework & infrastructure developments in addition to one-off projects. The role will be challenging, varied and offer opportunities for skills development and career development.

As a Senior Mechanical Engineer, your role will include assessing and understanding project requirements, undertaking mechanical design across a number of disciplines and agreeing timescales and specifications with design teams, clients and managers. Leading and directing junior staff, you will be actively involved in the preparation of documents, reports and health and safety risk assessments as well as interpreting commercial and/or contractual aspects of correspondence with or between fellow professionals on multidisciplinary projects.

Key responsibilities and duties include:

• Managing the delivery of assigned the mechanical and building services elements of multi-disciplinary projects across a range of sectors including, Built Environment; Healthcare, Education, Industrial, Energy, Water, Transportation and Advisory
• Working and liaising with associated engineering disciplines as part of delivering projects
• Dealing with a and management of internal and external stakeholders
• Carrying out design and calculation work using relevant industry software (IES, Revit etc)
• Demonstrating technical expertise, providing in depth knowledge whilst proactively coaching and developing more junior team members
• Developing, maintaining and monitoring programmes for scheduling and reporting on deliverables across specific projects
• Maximising profitability of projects, monitoring against budget, reacting and anticipating potential problems and communicating in line with client expectations

Candidate specification

Essential:

• A degree in building services engineering specialising in mechanical services
• Chartered Engineer CEng (or in the process of attaining chartership)
• Have the ability to or experience of leading on Mechanical services and some multi-disciplinary projects
• Be enthusiastic and ambitious
• Possess excellent communication skills, including report writing and presentation
• Can lead electrical elements of one large project or a portfolio of smaller projects
• Have some experience of managing client relationships and expectations as there will be a requirement to attend Client Facing meetings via Team

Desirable:

• Have experience of mentoring and leading graduate engineers 

Please be advised that offers for this role are conditional upon obtaining the appropriate level of Security Clearance.

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UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

Agile working  

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion 

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at [email removed] and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Employee Ownership

• Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success.
• Our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, giving them a direct connection to our success through our personal and group performance bonuses.
• As your career grows, so does your stake, recognising your long-term impact and contribution.
• Your voice matters, with the opportunity to connect directly with senior leadership through formal channels to help shape our future.
• For our senior roles you will have a direct pathway towards ownership from day one.

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for