Building Management Systems Consultant

Location/s: London / Croydon / Brighton / Sheffield / Manchester / Cardiff / Belfast / Glasgow UK

Relocation supported: Not supported, but internal applications are welcome

Recruiter contact: Andrea Gaffney

Hiring manager contact: David Hymas

Mott Mac Donald 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 Mac Donald is where people come to be brilliant.

The Buildings Unit (BLD) has a major presence in Mott Mac Donald'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.

We are seeking a qualified and enthusiastic Building Management Systems (BMS) Consulting Engineer with experience of working as a control systems integrator to join a team of Building Services Discipline serving the Built Environment and other Sectors. The role will be mainly project-delivery focussed but also will support technical capability, staff development, project profitability and project bids.

The BMS controls team works across multiple sectors including Aviation Buildings, Utilities and Energy, Residential, Defence, Healthcare, Local Authority, Sports and other sectors in the UK and overseas.

The role will work across a variety of BMS, automatic controls, smart infrastructure and systems including but not limited to building management systems, building services controls, building ELV, cabling systems, data centres, telecommunication systems, IP networks.

We are recruiting a candidate to build client relationships (both internally and externally) with excellent project delivery, communication and engagement skills. The candidate will be self‑motivated and capable of delivering high quality designs, specifications and technical advice to time and budget, with minimum of supervision.

Candidates will have a strong background in controls manufacturers, systems integrators or collaborative consultancy and design of BMS controls and associated systems. Candidates will also demonstrate experience and capability across the project lifecycle from requirements capture, concept design, detailed design, construction and handover.

Strong written and verbal communication of technical issues to varied technical and non‑technical audiences will be key to the success of the role.

• Have experience of working at a controls system integrator
• Have experience of leading on BMS and systems elements and some multi‑disciplinary projects
• Be enthusiastic and ambitious with a strong teamwork ethic
• Have excellent communication skills, including report writing and presentations
• Have some experience of managing client relationships and expectations with accountability for one or more key customer relationships and delivery of outputs
• Working as an BMS, controls and systems specialist providing high level advice to others

• Ideally CEng and a member of the IMechE, IET or CIBSE (or recognised equivalent). Track record of achievement and innovation, delivering complex projects or new services
• Managing and supervising the work of other…