Senior Public Health Engineer

About the client
Our Public Health team help to deliver award-winning innovative design solutions that have minimal environmental impact. The team works as part of the wider building services team to provide coordinated solutions for clients’ designs for a wide range of projects in the UK and internationally.
We are looking to recruit a Senior Public Health Engineer to be based in the Birmingham office as part of a growing Public Health Engineering team.

The Job role
The advertised role is permanent and would suit an experienced and talented Public Health Engineer who must have dedicated experience in Public Health design.
You will be responsible for managing the Public Health elements of projects from client specification through to completion, working as part of a team with your colleagues in other disciplines, including civil and structural engineers as well as other members of the wider building services team.
You will be expected to carry out the design and co-coordination of PH systems in different types of buildings, as well as taking part in project meetings. You will take responsibility for the supervision and development of more junior team members while successfully delivering projects to financial and time deadlines.
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate experience in a range of industry sectors including but not limited to the following:

• Commercial
• New Build
• Refurbishment
• Critical Systems/Data Centres
• Healthcare
• Education
• Luxury Hotel
• High Value Residential
• Sustainability (WELL Building Scheme/BREEAM/LEED/Greenstar)

The advertised role will require office-based design team input while also having the option of remote working for up to 2 days per week and at the line managers discretion.

Accredited with a BEng or MEng degree (or equivalent), you have a keen interest in furthering your expertise and are actively working towards Chartership Status or hold Chartership with a relevant institution.
An established public health engineer with substantial experience of working within a consultancy environment, you have proven experience in the production and oversight of design for sanitation systems, rainwater, drainage, domestic water services, and associated public health systems above ground. Experience of the design and specification of fire protection systems and below ground services would be useful.
You have an active knowledge and interest in sustainable design, specifically associated with water conservation, low energy building services design and the design path towards Net Zero Carbon.
You will be able to develop coordinated designs from concepts, including the production of calculations, reports specifications and drawings under minimal supervision.
You are a confident and credible relationship builder and know what it takes to manage and exceed client expectations (both internally and externally) and have experience of managing and mentoring more junior engineers.
You are Revit capable and can both review and manipulate 3D models through Google Glue, Navis Works and Revit, as well as the skills to use Revit as a modelling tool and design ‘straight to screen’.
You are willing to work within a multidisciplinary team, and have appropriate skills to lead the PH design, representing the discipline in external and internal meetings, addressing design related and construction related issues, as well as guiding and mentoring supporting technical staff.