We are looking for a talented and motivated Senior Mechanical Engineer to join us as part of team Civic in our London Studio, who shares our purpose and desire to make a positive difference to the world around them.

Supporting our MEP Associate Director, you will contribute to the engineering of a wide variety of inspirational and complex projects across the UK and Ireland, covering towns, cities and the public realm, and in the urban and natural environment. You will bring with you experience across a mix of sectors including residential, education, commercial, development and regeneration. You will have a positive impact on the environment, and help to unlock the power of place and community. You will have the opportunity to work alongside a wide range of industry experts, and high-profile private and public-sector clients and collaborators.

We are looking for a progressive and talented engineer that shares our values of being curious, collaborative, helpful, ingenious and passionate and who is keen to influence the people around them with the same understanding and empathy that they bring to their engineering. We hope you will share our strong interest in architecture and the wider public realm/built environment and play a key role in our ongoing practice and growth strategy. Ideally, you will be chartered, or on your chartership journey.

Key elements of the job:

• Provide engineering discipline leadership and expertise
• Undertaking engineering design and analysis while supervising others.
• Identifying problems and opportunities, assessing and resolving problems using qualitative and quantitative measures, and supervising others to do so
• Conduct feasibility studies, cost estimates, and risk assessments for proposed designs.
• Collaborate with project stakeholders, including architects, structural engineers, and contractors, to integrate mechanical systems seamlessly.
• Leading the production of high quality written reports on a range of projects.
• Preparation, presentation and self-checking of technical data, drawings and tenders, and supervising others to do so to peers and clients.
• Use of industry standard analysis and calculation software, and supervising others to do so.
• Leading Internal Reviews.
• Self-checking and checking others’ work.
• Compliance with the duties of Designer under the CDM Regulations 2015.
• Compliance with the practice QMS, including self-checking.
• Communicate clearly and openly internally and externally with peers and clients.
• Manage project timelines, budgets, and resources effectively.

Who we are and what we do

We believe in creating inspirational places that have a positive impact on the environment and enable people to lead happier and healthier lives.

Our 170-strong team across studios in Manchester, Leeds, London, Glasgow and Dublin have extensive experience of delivering engineering projects that help to create and transform neighbourhoods and cities and bring significant economic, social and environmental benefits to those places for all that live, work and visit there.

Climate sensitivity and its protection has been a founding feature of our Practice since its inception and it is embedded in our vision, our values and our designs. We have been actively pursuing a sustainable design agenda and recognise the opportunity we have to make a real impact from our urban infrastructure and building projects. With strong values of being collaborative, helpful, passionate, ingenious and creative, our focus is on building not destroying, re-using not just using, listening and learning, exploring not exploiting and creating a lasting legacy.

We are a dedicated equal opportunities employer, committed to upholding the principles of equality, fairness, and respect for all individuals within our Practice. We are passionate
about fostering a workplace that is not only inclusive, but also welcoming, an environment where every person can be their authentic selves and thrive together. We actively encourage suitably qualified applicants from diverse backgrounds, unique cultures, varied ethnicities, all age ranges, different sexual orientations, genders, and disabilities to join us on this journey. Our aim is to cultivate a team that represents society, recognising the value and contributions that each individual brings.

What we offer

Alongside an outstanding work environment, we offer:

• A market competitive salary (regularly reviewed, revised and updated)
• Flexible, Hybrid Working (Our Better Normal model of work can be as unique as you are!)
• 26 days’ holiday, rising to 27 after 3 years’ service (plus the normal bank holidays)
• Paid volunteering leave
• Sabbaticals
• Paid study leave
• Healthcare cover
• Life assurance
• Generous personal pension scheme
• Travel loans
• Cycle to work.

Applications

Curious to found out more?

Email our team at recruitment@team-civic.com and one of our People & Culture team will be in touch.