Building Performance Engineer

Why work for Smart?

Benefits: Birthday off, 25 days holiday entitlement + Bank Holidays, Life Assurance, 3 days fully paid volunteering days

At Smart, we help the worlds leading companies maintain their facilities to the best possible standards through a customer centric experience. Over the past 10 years, we have worked in the world’s top data centres and commercial facilities providing quality engineering services.

We are proud to be an employer that values your growth and work-life balance. We offer comprehensive training opportunities and clear progression routes to help you build a rewarding career. We are one of the few facilities companies that understand people are at the core of every organisation and are the most important investment we will ever make. Even as technology advances and buildings change, it is our leadership and personal contributions of Smart individuals that ultimately set us apart from competitors.

Smart is not a faceless corporation. We are an operationally lead business focused on providing visible management and a team that believe in our core behaviours – Integrity, Passion and Empowerment - that's the smart way. We invite the successful candidate to come along on our journey and adapt the Smart Culture we have created.

Role Purpose:

As a Building Performance Engineer, you will play a crucial role in evaluating, interpreting, and optimising energy usage and systems performance within our portfolio. You will analyse different sets of data (energy, mechanical, etc.), trends, and patterns to identify opportunities for efficiency improvements, cost savings, and sustainability initiatives. This role involves working with various stakeholders to implement strategies that align with environmental goals and regulatory requirements.

Duties:

• Monitor and analyse information from data systems to evaluate assets performance and provide recommendations to enhance maintenance procedures and energy efficiency (new technologies, upgrades etc.).
• Perform data analysis and performance assessments to assist the department in quantifying efficiency opportunities on our portfolio.
• Monitoring optimisation results on an on-going basis.
• Manage continuous implementation of energy efficiency measures throughout the portfolio.
• Report on energy consumption analysis, optimisations outcomes, and maintenance planning ensuring liaison with Operational Maintenance team and Professional Services teams to support our portfolio.
• Manage energy related queries and investigate on site, including BMS interventions in conjunction with the operational team.
• Undertake energy audit/survey across our portfolio to initiate the deployment of data-led & analytics solutions.
• Troubleshoot problems and advise operational and client stakeholder teams on advisory courses of action.
• Technical and operational support to utility metering and monitoring system strategy.
• Devise and secure procedures for data capture and analysis with attention to all technical aspects.

Person Specification:

• Suitably qualified degree or equivalent in an appropriate discipline (i.e., Energy/Environmental Management, Building Services Engineering) and/or equivalent qualification by experience, for example engineering (e.g., building services, mechanical engineering, energy engineering).
• Minimum 2 years of related experience in energy management, sustainability, or related field.