Mechanical Building Services Engineer
Posted 3 days ago by NRL Recruitment
£60 Per hour
Outside
Hybrid
Capenhurst
Summary: The Mechanical Building Services Engineer will play a crucial role in supporting the mechanical infrastructure and building services engineering for various projects at Urenco UK. This position involves providing technical leadership and design input throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards. The engineer will collaborate within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver effective solutions aligned with sustainability goals. The role requires extensive experience in mechanical design engineering, particularly in building services.
Key Responsibilities:
- Produce user requirements, scopes of work, technical specifications, and tender documentation
- Develop design management plans and review existing procedures
- Grade and categorise projects and systems in terms of quality, hazard, environmental impact, and complexity
- Identify technical constraints and applicable statutory requirements
- Undertake feasibility studies, optioneering assessments, and initial design scoping
- Carry out scoping and detailed mechanical design calculations
- Propose and implement solutions aligned with sustainability, green credentials, and net-zero targets
- Draft RFQs and review contractor responses
- Respond to RFIs and technical queries (TQs)
- Review third-party design packages and accept contractor design documentation
- Provide day-to-day technical oversight of contractor delivery
- Lead and contribute to single- and multi-discipline design reviews
- Ensure compliance with safe systems of work and risk management procedures
- Work closely within a multi-disciplinary project team, liaising with other engineering disciplines
- Provide sound technical judgement and adapt designs where required to meet project needs
Key Skills:
- HND or BEng in an appropriate engineering discipline (Building Services or similar preferred)
- Minimum of 7 years’ experience as a mechanical design engineer for a consultancy or Design & Build contractor
- Strong, all-round practical knowledge of mechanical building services
- Sound understanding of design principles and project procedures from inception through to handover and close-out
- Knowledge of relevant standards and statutory requirements (e.g. Building Regulations, Water Regulations, Gas Regulations)
- Experience working within regulated or high-hazard environments
- Ability to review, adapt, and develop engineering solutions
- Familiarity with AutoCAD
- Awareness or experience of 3D modelling tools such as Revit, Navisworks, or Inventor
Salary (Rate): £60/hour
City: Capenhurst
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: Engineering
Job Title: Mechanical Building Services Engineer
Location: Capenhurst (Hybrid)
Role Purpose
The Mechanical Building Services Engineer will support the mechanical infrastructure and building services engineering of infrastructure and accommodation/welfare projects across Urenco UK assets. Acting as an intelligent customer, the role is embedded within a multi-disciplinary infrastructure project team responsible for delivering a diverse portfolio of projects across site. The postholder will provide technical leadership, design input, and assurance across the full project lifecycle, from feasibility through to handover.
Key Responsibilities
The role will typically include, but is not limited to, the following duties:
- Project & Design Management
- Produce user requirements, scopes of work, technical specifications, and tender documentation
- Develop design management plans and review existing procedures
- Grade and categorise projects and systems in terms of quality, hazard, environmental impact, and complexity
- Identify technical constraints and applicable statutory requirements
- Undertake feasibility studies, optioneering assessments, and initial design scoping
- Carry out scoping and detailed mechanical design calculations
- Propose and implement solutions aligned with sustainability, green credentials, and net-zero targets
- Technical Assurance & Delivery
- Draft RFQs and review contractor responses
- Respond to RFIs and technical queries (TQs)
- Review third-party design packages and accept contractor design documentation
- Provide day-to-day technical oversight of contractor delivery
- Lead and contribute to single- and multi-discipline design reviews
- Ensure compliance with safe systems of work and risk management procedures
- Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
- Work closely within a multi-disciplinary project team, liaising with other engineering disciplines
- Provide sound technical judgement and adapt designs where required to meet project needs
Experience & Qualifications
Essential
- HND or BEng in an appropriate engineering discipline (Building Services or similar preferred)
- Minimum of 7 years’ experience as a mechanical design engineer for a consultancy or Design & Build contractor
- Strong, all-round practical knowledge of mechanical building services, including:
- Domestic hot and cold water systems
- Foul water drainage
- Low Temperature Hot Water (LTHW)
- Chilled Water (CHW)
- Refrigerants, condensate, and natural gas systems
- Ventilation, air conditioning, and comfort cooling systems (e.g. VRF, fan coils, CHW systems)
- Sound understanding of design principles and project procedures from inception through to handover and close-out
Desirable
- Knowledge of relevant standards and statutory requirements (e.g. Building Regulations, Water Regulations, Gas Regulations)
- Experience working within regulated or high-hazard environments (nuclear experience advantageous but not essential)
- Ability to review, adapt, and develop engineering solutions
- Familiarity with AutoCAD
- Awareness or experience of 3D modelling tools such as Revit, Navisworks, or Inventor
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