Principal / Associate Utilities Consultant

We are seeking to employ a Principal / Associate Utilities Consultant to be based in our London, Manchester, Farnborough office.

Closing date for applications: 6th December 2024

Hilson Moran are interdisciplinary consultants, engineers and advisors, applying progressive design thinking to shape the environments we live in. We provide a full range of engineering services, exciting innovation and design solutions on a wide range of projects from across our network of offices in the UK. Our projects span the globe, from World Cup stadiums in the Middle East and landmarks in London, to luxury hotels in New York and development projects in India.

We are currently seeking a Principal or Associate Utilities Infrastructure Consultant to join our Infrastructure & Environment Team. Our existing team are a market leading provider of utilities and energy infrastructure on some of the UK’s largest and most visible construction/development projects. The role may also provide ad-hoc support to our water and transport planning teams.

Our ‘Infrastructure Services’ team provides technical, commercial and procurement advice to large and often prestigious commercial, residential and mixed-use developers. We tend to support large regeneration and masterplanning projects from early infrastructure planning through to installation and commissioning of multi-utility, foul/surface water/SuDs and mobility services, and uniquely we manage the alteration of existing utility networks in very constrained (often below ground) spaces to de-risk some of the UK’s most prestigious development projects.

We provide expertise in regard water, wastewater (and SuDS), district heating/cooling, electricity, telecommunication networks and mobility-based solutions.

Your Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To

• Together with our Associate Directors and Directors meet with commercial and residential developers and/or landowners, and their supply chain including Architects, Planning Consultants and Project Managers, to understand development needs, both technical and commercial drivers, and develop proposals that meet their needs.
• Once appointed by a client then consult with the wider design team, but particularly utility undertakers and other utilities, energy, and data service providers to understand opportunities, risks and costs associated with our client’s development proposals and advise of these risks, costs and opportunities via meetings, sketches, presentations and reports.
• Maintain and enhance both client and design team relationships through regular reporting and communication. Develop utility designs directly and via third parties and coordinate (using our in-house Engineering and CAD Technicians as required), often to support a client’s groundworks tender, whereby tender and contract drawings will be developed.
• Procure the services of specialist utility and multi-utility contractors and undertakers by developing scopes and specifications as part of a wider Employers Requirement document using drawings and other documents as required. This might be new connections related work, early utility enabling works, or likely both.
• Manage the delivery of critical utility enabling and new connection works often alongside third-party Project Management and Cost Consultancy Practises.
• Report back to our client on progress and issue any relevant instructions to contractors.
• Lead utilities progress meetings as required to progress the works.
• Review as-constructed data and closeout or reconcile final costs.
• Using timesheets understand your impact on project costs and profitability.
• Take ownership of the delivery of all the above through an intimate understanding of client needs and an understanding of project costs and profitability.
• Occasionally you may be required to manage interdisciplinary projects including MEP, water resources and other related built environment disciplines.
• Mentor and develop more junior members of the team. Delegate simpler projects directly to junior members of staff and retain a watching brief so that they too begin to intimately understand client needs and expectations.
  
  

Benefits

• Enhanced annual leave entitlement of 25 days per annum, plus public holidays. Your annual leave entitlement will increase based on length of service with us up to 28 days plus public holidays.
• Enhanced company pension contribution.
• Annual budget of £200 to spend on personal wellbeing activities.
• Access to our healthcare cash plan scheme.
• Access to confidential wellbeing support services via our Employee Assistance Programme.
• Paid volunteering days to support causes important to you.
• Fun company events including our annual winter party and our full company summer social.
• Season ticket loans.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Options for unpaid leave and career breaks.
  
  

We’d Like To Hear From You If You Have

Background & Qualifications

• Understanding and past working relationship with commercial and-or residential developers, utility undertakers and independent utility or energy network operators.
• Commercial understanding of utilities infrastructure including costs and programme risks, as well as their own costs.
• Experience of planning, managing, and delivering utilities infrastructure for major development projects
• Ambition to support the strategic planning, business development and growth.
• A proven awareness of both the Planning Process and RIBA Stages, and how activities fit into these.
• Analytical and fresh thinking abilities to identify issues and suggest solutions before they become a problem to the client.
• Specific academic qualifications are not required you will be working with professional and chartered engineers, town planners, architects and project managers.
  
  

Skills

• Ability to influence verbally and through sketches, the written word and presentation
• Presentation and spreadsheet skills with the ability to check technical documents is a necessity.
• Have great attention to detail.
• Self-starter and be able to plan your own workload.
• High proficiency with standard MS programmes and specifically; Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
  
  

All applications will be treated in the strictest confidence. Hilson Moran is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all communities