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Location: Glasgow
Salary: Up to 65K + Car allowance + bonus (per annum)
Job type: Permanent
Working pattern: Full time / Flexible working
Industry: Construction / Building Services
Company: Hays
Consultant: Richard Greenwood
Hays office: Edinburgh — 4th Floor, 2 Lochrin Square, 96 Fountainbridge
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Associate Mechanical Engineer – Building Services: (Fancy finishing at 12 on a Friday)
Why this role
A superb opportunity for an experienced Mechanical Building Services professional ready to step into, or continue at, Associate level within a leading Tier 1 multidisciplinary engineering consultancy.
This is more than a pure design position. You'll combine technical leadership, project delivery, client relationships, mentoring and commercial responsibility, while helping shape and develop the wider Mechanical Building Services team.
It's an excellent move for someone looking for senior-level progression without sacrificing work-life balance.
Key responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership across Mechanical Building Services projects
- Lead the mechanical discipline on major multidisciplinary schemes
- Oversee HVAC, Public Health and associated mechanical services designs
- Manage project delivery across programme, cost, quality and resource
- Develop and maintain key client relationships
- Support repeat business and new opportunities
- Manage and mentor Engineers, Senior Engineers, Graduates and Technicians
- Review and approve calculations, specifications, reports and designs
- Drive technical quality and compliance
- Support bids, fee proposals, tenders and scopes of work
- Assist with resource planning and development of the mechanical team
- Work closely with other engineering disciplines and senior leadership
About you
- Experienced Mechanical Building Services professional
- Degree qualified or equivalent
- Ideally Chartered or approaching Chartered status
- CIBSE or relevant professional institution membership
- Strong HVAC and Building Services technical knowledge
- Experience leading mechanical and multidisciplinary projects
- Experience managing and developing engineers
- Strong commercial awareness
- Confident dealing directly with clients
- Experience with bids, proposals and fee management
- Ability to develop long-term client relationships
- Strong combination of technical, leadership and commercial skills
What's on offer?
- Excellent senior-level salary
- Generous car allowance
- Bonus/performance-related rewards
- Strong overall benefits package
- Tier 1 training and leadership development
- Exposure to major and technically complex projects
- Excellent long-term career progression
- Flexible and hybrid working
- Condensed working hours allowing you to finish at 12pm on Fridays
- Free parking
- Opportunity to influence and develop a growing Building Services team
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