Engineer​/Senior​/Principal Mechanical Engineer; Building Services

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At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

• You will work closely with likeminded individuals on exciting and challenging projects.
• The Building Services team in the Northern Region (Split across Manchester, Leeds, Edinburgh and Glasgow) consists of more than 50 mechanical, electrical, and public health engineers.
• We make extraordinary efforts to attract, develop, engage and retain the best professionals in our fields of expertise because this is what makes us great.
• We put the highest ethical standards at the centre of all we do and is inherent in our offering.
• We are humble and act with moral and intellectual integrity, keep our word, treat everyone with respect, support our colleagues, and embrace diversity.
• We care about individuals and their progress and offer the most fulfilling career development for our professionals.

• Have a proven track record in delivering projects for your discipline and in line with client expectations.
• Take responsibility for and direct others in the production of detailed and performance specification for the discipline subject to review by colleagues prior to issue.
• Reviewing design programmes and ensuring that sufficient resource is available to complete the works in line with technical and commercial performance and delivery.
• Able to work using initiative with minimal supervision on all technical aspects of their discipline or have specific specialist experience applicable to the role.
• Supervise the completion of detailed designs and supervise the work of others in this function.
• Consider the feasibility of the project specific to the discipline and lead the overall feasibility study for the project.
• Training and mentoring of staff.

• A proven track record of delivering a variety of projects both in terms of scale and sector.
• Ability to engage with clients, contractors and design team members in technical discussions, co-ordination and debates.
• Have an ability to sketch and communicate technical detail graphically and effectively to both construction professionals and client teams.
• Shown detailed understanding of the regulations applicable to the discipline and how to demonstrate this through calculation.
• Have a working understanding of latest mechanical design software packages to allow the allocation / direction of work on projects.
• Must be able to obtain UK vetting level of Security Check (SC)

• Working knowledge of Hevacomp
• U value calculations
• Heat loss & gain calculations
• Pipe sizing (LTHW, CHW, HWS, CWS etc), Pump sizing, Duct sizing, Fan sizing
• Psychrometrics
• Control valve sizing & authority
• Thermal modelling
• BMS Systems

• CIBSE/ IET/IMechE Engineering Council accredited honours degree or specific experience that will lead to Chartership
• IESor TAS training applied to the discipline
• Revit
  
  MEP training applied to the discipline
• Achieved or working towards IEng or CEng status
• BEng/Bsc/MEng in applicable engineering discipline

Don’t quite meet all the criteria? Apply, and we can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities within the team.

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• Work-life balance:
  Our hybrid working policy offers the flexibility to work from home two days a week, while…