Job Description
Client: BAE Systems
Job Type: Contract
Job Title: HVAC Engineer
Location: Remote - Irregular travel to Glasgow
Hourly Rate: £60 PAYE OR £81.05 Umbrella inside IR35
Duration: 12 months
About The Role
The Senior HVAC Engineer will lead the design, integration, and technical assurance of numerous HVAC systems across a complex marine platform. They will apply deep expertise in system performance, capacity assessment, and optimisation to deliver robust, compliant, and customer focused solutions throughout the shipbuilding lifecycle. The role ensures high engineering standards by driving improvements to processes, supporting technical investigations, and providing evidence-based decision making. Strong HVAC and marine/building services systems experience is essential to ensuring system reliability and capability across the platform.
Core Duties
1. Preparing specifications and developing HVAC system designs in accordance with project requirements, technical standards, and quality expectations. This includes Heat Load Calculations, Psychrometrics, Pressure Drop Calculations and Single Line Diagrams (schematics).
2. Carry out design appraisals in assigned areas to ensure compliance with all applicable standards and design criteria.
3. Participating in the development, maintenance, and modification of engineering processes and procedures relating to HVAC distribution systems, ensuring they remain aligned with technical developments, regulatory requirements, and operational needs.
Essential Criteria
4. Experience and expertise, in HVAC systems or Building Services HVAC System design
5. Marine HVAC experience desirable
6. Autocad & Foran desirable
7. Sufficient experience of the total product lifecycle to enable a good understanding of adjacent phases and through life engineering issues