Deliver class leading BIM excellence with this award-winning multi-disciplinary team working on a wide range of large-scale, challenging, reference BIM projects.
Your opportunity
As the demand for our expertise continues to grow, we have an exciting opportunity for a Principal Mechanical Engineer to join our experienced MEP team based at our office in Manchester.
You will be able to demonstrate solid experience of working in a design capacity with an extensive technical knowledge of building services installations.
You will be expected to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver successful projects within a range of sizes and sectors. Our current wide ranging project portfolio includes work in the residential and housing, development and regeneration, healthcare, education, commercial and residential sectors.
Working as part of a team, you will be expected to manage your own project work, undertake detailed design to the required standards and to deliver excellent levels of client service.
What you need to do to be effective in this role:
Leading project mechanical design and in addition (for smaller projects) managing electrical engineers and specialists
Working as the lead engineer in a design team being responsible for mechanical and public health building services design
Supervising and monitoring the work of others in this function
As a project lead, actively engage with Clients to ensure project stakeholder requirements are successfully incorporated as well as continuing to develop strong Client relationships
Completing mechanical QA project reviews to ensure technical requirements align with industry regulations and recommendations as well the client brief
Advising clients on energy use and conservation for a range of buildings and sites, aiming to minimise the environmental impact and carbon emissions associated with our designs
Ideally, using specialist computer-aided design (CAD) and BIM (Revit) software and other resources to design the systems required for the project
Undertaking mechanical design calculations - ideally including the use of mechanical engineering software such as Hevacomp and IES
Producing reports, drawings and specifications to suit various RIBA design stages
Liaising closely with other professionals, including structural engineers, architects, surveyors, and contractors of in-house and external project teams
Attending a range of project group and technical meetings
Ensuring that the design and maintenance of building systems meets legislative and health and safety requirements
Provide ongoing mentoring and management of junior engineers and apprentices
The skills and experience you need to have for this role:
Significant experience and technical knowledge within a mechanical and public health building services design role from either a consultant or contractor background
Having an accredited relevant degree or higher educational qualification in an applicable discipline (HNC/HND)
To have achieved CEng status
Excellent communication skills and willing to work as part of a close-knit team towards a shared goal
Attention to detail and a strong desire to deliver high standards of client care
We are experts in recruiting BIM professionals. In fact, we’ve been in business since 1988. Since then, everything we do has been about team building. JOHNSON BIM are about working together to offer insight and strategic approaches and sharing our expertise and knowledge more widely. We’re a member of several key BIM groups and regularly contribute to BIM websites and forums. We work with signature design teams from Arup to Zaha Hadid and the best contractors from Balfour Beatty to Skanska, focused on helping them achieve their ambitious BIM visions. We do this by using our knowledge, informed solutions, our credibility and our broad reach to connect them with equally-ambitious BIM professionals and those just starting their BIM journey.
We believe in going further for our clients, pulling out all the stops to get the job done and done well. We are committed to working with integrity and honesty in all that we do, working with open communication and being a true partner to the clients we work with, taking the time to get to know our clients’ businesses and constantly striving to further deepen our industry knowledge. It’s an approach that works, and which has achieved some fantastic results for our clients. Put simply, we are passionate, enthusiastic, knowledgeable and dedicated.
JOHNSON BIM grew out of the vision of one man, Mike Johnson, growing into quite a success story, with world-class clients and projects spread across countries and continents. We bring capable, driven, passionate people together to help build BIM centres of excellence and smart teams that are spearheading the implementation of BIM.
If you take the opportunity to connect with us, you could end up doing something completely amazing, working on landmark projects and using BIM to make them happen. With a wide range of outstanding opportunities to choose from, world-class companies to work with and our support, there’s no limit to how far we can help you push your BIM career.
