Role
The client has an exciting opportunity for a Principal/Associate Engineer to join their Operational Assets team, based in their Oxford office. This role is ideally suited to individuals who are passionate about existing buildings, enjoy developing innovative and pragmatic solutions to complex operational challenges, and are motivated by using real‑time building data to help drive progress towards net‑zero outcomes.
Responsibilities
* Secure new projects and support both existing and new clients, assisting the regional lead with delivery planning and team strategy.
* Lead work delivery, organisational support, and team growth to support regional and local client requirements.
* Demonstrate strong leadership, providing guidance, mentorship, and technical supervision to colleagues.
* Collaborate closely with other teams and discipline leads to ensure efficient project delivery and workload planning.
* Recruit, train, and develop team members, supporting long‑term succession planning and professional growth.
* Undertake detailed design, technical specification, and site monitoring activities.
* Monitor commissioning processes and deliver post‑occupancy engineering services.
* Prepare technical documentation including feasibility studies, condition surveys, and investigative reports.
* Liaise directly with clients, demonstrating strong commercial awareness and project management skills.
Operational Assets – Core Service Areas
The team operates across three primary service streams:
1. Decarbonisation, Performance Improvement & Energy Reduction
Delivering energy efficiency, building performance enhancement, and net‑zero strategies through pragmatic engineering solutions and emerging technologies, from strategic planning to implementation.
2. Design
Specialising in complex existing buildings across all RIBA stages, delivering creative and sustainable design solutions that modernise and enhance building services systems to meet current standards and operational demands.
3. Property Consultancy
Providing technical advisory services to support property management, asset operation, and transactional processes, including:
* Technical due diligence (vendor and pre‑acquisition)
* Dilapidations surveys
* Planned preventative maintenance reporting
* Licences to Alter
* Maintenance inspections
* Validation management
* Asset registers
* Troubleshooting
* Energy optimisation surveys
* EPC assessments
Projects span a diverse range of sectors including Commercial Offices, Retail, Residential, Education, Healthcare, Justice, Defence, Heritage, Industrial, and Technology.
Benefits
Employees benefit from a culture that promotes wellbeing, professional development, and individuality. Benefits package includes a 9‑day fortnight scheme, thriving community groups, varied social and networking events, structured professional and technical development programmes, private medical cover, an electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme, stock options, and up to 30 days of annual leave.
Requirements
* Chartered status or progress towards chartership as a qualified design engineer.
* Strong experience working on refurbishment and fit‑out projects within existing buildings.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
* Strong knowledge of building data analytics and metering systems.
* Proven experience in performance specification, detailed design, contract administration, and site supervision.
* Broad knowledge of building services engineering, with strong expertise in a primary discipline and sound understanding of secondary disciplines.
* Solid working knowledge of UK and relevant EU regulations, standards, and design guidance.
* Strong organisational, planning, and time‑management skills.
* Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to influence, collaborate, and build long‑term client relationships.
* Demonstrable experience in work‑winning and team leadership.
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