M&E Designer - Asset Management

Job description

LOCATION - FLEXIBLE

Are you ready to take the next step in your career?

Do you want to do meaningful work that improves quality of life?

At Tetra Tech, you will work with high-performing teams who are passionate about using their expertise to find solutions to complex problems in water, environment, infrastructure, resource management, asset Management, energy, and international development .

As a member of the asset management team, you will be responsible for leading a team in the delivery of mechanical and electrical detailed surveying solutions. You will need to ensure the provision and successful delivery of mechanical and electrical services. Ideally you will have experience across a range of sectors including defence, commercial, industrial, retail, healthcare, education, and leisure within both public and private domains.

This role will include all aspects of a mechanical and electrical engineering consultancy. You must be able to carry out calculations, estimate costs and manage finances for project budgets. You will have the passion and drive to manage projects in accordance with the client's brief and programme, developing good business and customer relations. Your works will range from site surveys through to conceptual design, controlling and maintaining the quality of work in accordance with Tetra Tech policies and standards as well as providing ad hoc advice and guidance to our clients.

Having a strong building services engineering background, either as a tradesperson or through an M&E career, you will have excellent knowledge of engineering plant, equipment and a detailed understanding of applicable building services standards.

The position will include:

• Undertaking field works including energy & engineering audits, energy & engineering surveys, reports and projects
• Customer meetings and presentations
• Surveying and performance reporting
• Ability to communicate and influence at all levels
• Able to manage, influence and motivate team members
• Build and maintain excellent client relationships
• Work effectively whilst under pressure
• Plan ahead and prioritise workload
• Appraise pre-tender D&B employer's requirements and specifications to advise pre-construction team of responsibilities and potential risks and opportunities
• Production and monitoring of project design delivery plans
• Preparation of external design consultants' scope of works
• Draft external design consultants' appointments including milestone deliverables schedules
• Implementation of procedures for the flow and quality of design information through to the pre-construction and operational teams
• Management of design, design co-ordination and interfacing between all professional parties
• Ensuring the contractual obligations of the employer's requirements are understood and fulfilled
• Offer engineering solutions to improve value, efficiency or reduce capital cost
• Undertake gap analysis and engineering appraisals on 3rd party designs
• Prepare and issue monthly design progress reports
• Complete detailed review of external designers' submissions, including building physics
• Capture and all project variations during the design process
• Attend tender interviews, client meeting and project meetings, representing TetraTech as and when required
• Assist operational colleagues with project technical support
• Where required, review statutory compliance documentation pertaining to Building Regulations, H&S and fire safety
• Identify issues which may affect other projects in the broader portfolio and share information using available resources and generate portfolio wide analysis for reporting to asset management team and clients
• Undergo a full DBS (CRB), SC check if required

The ability to win work and develop further business opportunities through relationship building will also be a key requirement of the role.

Technical / Commercial

• Working closely with the project management team and other heads of practice, you will be required to prepare tenders and quotations for the asset management team
• Support the asset management team in identifying ways to reduce cost, improve efficiency and drive best value across client portfolios.
• Develop solutions based on relevant best practice
• Contributes to the delivery of innovative solutions for clients
• Ensure that costs are managed and controlled to ensure the achievement of project profitability
• Ensures that all project activities are managed in line with group policy and procedures (Policy100)
• Pro-actively identifies opportunities for continuous improvement and efficient ways of working within projects and more widely across the business ensuring that this is shared with colleagues
• Pro-actively identifies business development opportunities with existing and new clients and escalate for action and participate in bid submissions

About you

Essential

• Experience with both a consultancy and a contractor
• Several years in a design focused position (mechanical or electrical, ideally both)
• Experience with asset life cycle replacement projects and identifying alternative solutions
• Decarbonisation / net zero projects
• M&E, HVAC & BMS Controls technical engineering expertise
• HVAC plant performance review expertise
• M&E plant maintenance and audit expertise
• HVAC planned maintenance formation, specifications and tendering
• Building Services Asset and Condition Surveying
• HVAC / M&E plant condition reviews, lifecycle and preparation of capital expenditure forecasts
• Compliance reviews and audits
• Energy Audits and Surveys
• The production of reports and technical papers
• Project Management for small M&E project and energy saving initiatives
• Contract management and delivery
• The skill set and passion for both engineering and leadership with the ability to manage and deliver mechanical engineering concept design across a wide range of sectors.
• Proven experience of working in Revit and Navisworks software to support the engineering team and to achieve the successful delivery of projects.
• You will hold as a minimum security clearance to MOD SC level and ideally be at or able to attain clearance to DV level.
• Experience of working within the built environment
• Experience of interpreting information and undertaking analysis of information from differing sources to formulate a conclusion
• Robust project and programme management capability
• Ability to work away from the home office and potentially abroad
• Educated to at least degree level or equivalent in mechanical / Electrical engineering, building services engineering
• Chartered and member of relevant body (working towards this will be considered)
• Experience in the management of building services projects from concept through to handover
• Proven ability to develop designs conscious of energy conservation, sustainability and with a knowledge basis of renewable technologies
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to teach and mentor junior engineers to aid their development and improve the quality of engineering output

Desirable

• Experience within a similar role, preferably within an outsourced building services or facilities/asset management role
• Knowledge of asset management principles.
• Change control experience within projects
• Building strong working relationships with other stakeholders whilst ensuring that the best interests of the projects are promoted and maintained.
• Experience with web based (database) software platforms.

About Tetra Tech:

Tetra Tech is a leading provider of high-end consulting and engineering services for projects worldwide. We combine the resources of a global, multibillion dollar company with local, client-focused delivery in more than 400 locations around the world. We are Leading with Science® to provide sustainable and resilient solutions for our clients.

We offer a competitive salary, contributory pension, health cover and a range of flexible benefits including retail vouchers, travel insurance and variable holiday (renewable annually). We promote flexible working and are open to discussing the possibility of reduced hours, remote working, flexible start and finish times, compressed hours, or potential job shares.

We are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgend er status, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy / maternity.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.

Please no agencies.