Job description:
Summary
You will have experience with designing projects from conception through to completion (including calculations, drawings, specifications), whilst demonstrating commercial awareness in winning work.
* Assist with developing Building Services and be part of the Building Services discipline group.
* Help shape and grow the technical development of the group.
* Lead and manage the workload of the Building Services team and manage office behaviour.
* Manage existing clients and develop further opportunities, undertaking entertaining when required
* Look to grow the Company on the back of new and repeat clients.
* Be responsible for resourcing and delivering to financial targets and client deadlines.
* Raise awareness of the business by attendance at networking events, seminars, and business development events.
* Set an example for the workforce to follow.
* Make yourself available to the office and clients outside of hours, when required
* Contact project leads on a fortnightly basis to ensure that they are consistently happy with our output to them.
* Report back to Directors with workload updates, morale, suggestions for improvements.
* Develop Company Standards for both drawings and specifications.
Skills, Experience and Qualifications
* Educated to degree or HND level or equivalent
* Chartered Engineer or progressing towards
* Outgoing and personable
Design / Engineering
* Concept design.
* Option evaluation
* Prepare stage reports / outline designs, feasibility
* Brainstorm design solutions
* Detail design
* Maintain comprehensive design file
* Produce scheme design drawings for CAD
* Produce design sketches
* Invite suppliers' expert knowledge and costs
* Adopt flexible attitude to project and design
Project Management
Client Management
* Client management.
* Taking the lead on all communications with Clients.
* Advising on fees and preparing fee proposals.
* Interpreting project requirements.
* Promote 'can do' attitude.
Design Team Management
* Communicating with design team members.
* Prepare written reports for DTMs.
* Convene technical domestic meetings with team.
* Provide assistance to team.
Project Strategy
* Fully familiarise with ACE B2 document.
* Prepare project plan at outset.
* Prepare project programme for design/pre-construction
* Allocate resources for project.
* Produce design stage reports as appropriate.
Financial Management
* Produce cost plans and pre-tender estimates.
* Produce cost comparisons for systems/plant.
* Understand project costs and M&E ratios.
* Demonstrate our interest in financial matters.
* Evaluate/Report on Tender Returns
* Be commercially aware and identify scope gaps and additional works by raising DCO's
Sub-Contractor and Site Management
* Fully brief Sub-Contractors.
* Adopt non-adversarial management approach, firm and fair.
* Monitor and report progress.
* Raise instructions.
* Assist problem solving process.
* Respond to RFIs, queries quickly.
* Control project finance and variation costs with PQS.
* Confirm all site matters.
* Respond to any changes quickly
Human Resource Management
* Allocate and monitor project tasks and time.
* Engender 'can do' attitude with personnel.
* Encourage, listen and motivate staff.
* Produce weekly / daily work plans.
* Produce four-weekly resource forecasts.
· Develop trainee programme.
· Adopt non-adversarial management approach, firm and fair.
* Manage staff resources daily via Trello
* Ensure staff timesheets are completed frequently and accurately
Practice Management & Finance
* Produce monthly project reports
* Assist with fee bidding and proposals.
* Monitor project man hour expenditure and report.
Job Type: Full-time
Work Location: In person