Facade Engineer

Facade Engineer

Join to apply for the Facade Engineer role at Buro Happold. Want to work with the most sought-after minds and most-talked about projects? Your design and site experience in the Facades Discipline might just make you our new Façade Engineer.

We're looking for someone that wants to work on technically demanding projects and with such an enviable portfolio – including recent deliveries such as the Museum of the Future in Dubai, Battersea Power Station redevelopment in London, and Aviva Studios in Manchester – we can offer an unrivalled opportunity to push boundaries.

• Work as part of a single or multi-disciplinary team attending and chairing meetings with clients, architects, contractors, etc. in an advisory capacity.
• Develop jobs technically from initial client ideas or as remediation proposals.
• Attend site to monitor and assess installation or condition.
• Provide input on bids.
• Support senior staff in providing strong design leadership on Façade issues to the rest of the client’s design team.
• Maintain good client relations throughout the job and work with a variety of stakeholders.
• Mentor more junior team members.

We envision that this position will interest a technically competent person with a solid foundation of Façade Engineering experience and provide an opportunity to further advance your career whilst working on some iconic global projects. In return, we would expect you to be able to demonstrate:

• Experience of design which should ideally include the majority of the following:
• At least two materials: aluminium, steel, concrete, stone, glass and timber.
• Awareness of basic weather performance issues.
• Architectural component detail design including aesthetics.
• Fundamental building physics: ventilation, solar gain control, thermal insulation, glare control etc.
• Structural design principles including movement, tolerance, support and restraint.
• Glass structural design.
• Awareness of basic sustainability design drivers.
• Understanding of passive fire protection design strategies including cavity barriers, fire stopping, intumescent paint etc.
• Experience of the practical aspects of handling and fabricating typical cladding materials.
• Knowledge of typical cladding systems.
• Site experience of at least three systems: traditional masonry, stick curtain walling, unitised curtain walling, precast, rainscreen and SFS.
• Good awareness of the problems and constraints of the other major design disciplines such as Architectural, Structures, Services, Fire Engineering, Acoustics, and Computer modelling, etc.
• Achieved or working towards Chartered Engineer, Chartered Building Surveyor, Professional Engineer or equivalent registration with the ECUK or other appropriate body.
• Solid education in Structural Engineering, MEP Services, Architecture, Mechanical Engineering, or a joint qualification in any of these. Other formal qualifications such as the MSc in Façade Engineering from Bath University or PhD level research would naturally be of great interest.
• Ideally you will also have experience working on international projects, as well as domestic projects and be interested and willing to travel from time to time.

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, and 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. We are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. If you need any adjustments to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable, please let us know by contacting

• Seniority level:
  Mid‑Senior level
• Employment type:
  
  Full-time
• Job function:
  Engineering and Information Technology
• Industry: Construction