Principal​/Senior Mechanical Engineer; Critical Systems

Principal/Senior Mechanical Engineer (Critical Systems) Southampton

We invite you to bring your expertise and enthusiasm into play as you contribute to innovative and high-quality design solutions. To succeed in this role, you will be project focused and have experience of working in a design capacity with working knowledge of mission critical system applications for buildings, rail and power installations. Are you our new Principal/Senior Mechanical Engineer for Critical Systems?

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Do you want to push the boundaries of your profession and develop your excellence in an open, collaborative and empowering culture? We work to create a sustainable future and our inspiring projects and innovative solutions aim to set the standard among our peers. You will join a global company that has been growing successfully since its founding in 1945. Together, we lead and leave a positive impact on societies, companies and people around the world.

Owned by the Ramboll Foundation and our staff, high ethical standards as well as responsibility towards society and employees are ingrained in our cultural DNA. Ramboll was value-based long before it came into fashion and we live our values every day. We constantly strive to achieve inspiring and exacting solutions that make a genuine difference to our customers, end-users and society as a whole.

As our new Principal/Senior Mechanical Engineer in Critical Systems, you will be part of a highly dynamic team. Our Critical Systems team has a strong focus on technical delivery and an excellent understanding of client care. We offer a supporting and collaborative culture and environment, in which you can develop and grow in your role. For the right candidate there is the opportunity to progress rapidly, with increasing client facing duties and mentoring of junior engineers and apprentices.

Finally, we enjoy what we do! And are looking for like-minded and personable people to join and strengthen our team.

• Manage your own project work
• Deliver sustainable design solutions to the required standards and supervise the work of others in this function
• Manage time on projects to suit deadlines and complete your assigned tasks as stipulated by the Ramboll project manager
• Provide financial management of projects
• Represent Ramboll at external client meetings
• Provide mechanical design expertise for the UK wide Critical Systems Team.

From the moment you join Ramboll, we will support your personal and professional development so that you grow with the company. For this role, we believe your starting point is:

• To be a qualified Engineer having a proven and demonstrable track record in your discipline
• To have a CIBSE/IMechE Engineering Council accredited honours degree, or an HNC in an applicable discipline with commitment to continue with higher education
• To have achieved or working towards IEng or CEng status
• To have an understanding of financial arrangements for projects including fee forecasting, fee preparation, and allocation
• Be accustomed to providing guidance to graduates and technicians, demonstrating your in-depth understanding of design engineering
• Have a proven ability to manage a number of projects at any one time
• Be forward thinking and passionate about digital design innovation and ‘smart design’ in an increasingly digitalized construction arena
• Demonstrate compliance in tools such as Hevacomp, Magi Cad, IES, and Revit
• Ideally you will have experience across different sectors such as Building Services Design, Site surveys & inspections, Snagging, Client & design team meetings

Personal qualities that will help you succeed in this role include:

• You have impressive client facing skills
• You are an excellent communicator and possess the ability to make what is complicated simple!
• You demonstrate good attention to detail and show pride in the work you produce
• You are able to motivate and inspire confidence both in your peers and clients
• You are able to work using your own initiative with minimal supervision…