Senior M&E Asset Consultant

We are recruiting a M&E Asset Surveyor to play a pivotal role in the expansion of the Asset Consultancy team

This unique opportunity is suited to an ambitious M&E Asset Surveyor with the drive to create meaningful change and inspire growth across Buro Happold. This role has the potential to accelerate your career trajectory within a vibrant multi-disciplinary organisation.

Buro Happold proudly supports hybrid working however, candidates will be expected to be in our office 2-3 days a week.

Are you a natural problem solver who enjoys collaborating directly with clients to bring pragmatic, resilient, and environmentally sensitive solutions to the built environment?

This is a pivotal role that will see you acting as a Senior M&E Asset Surveyor in the Asset Consultancy team .

As part of a multidisciplinary team, you will contribute to the overall provision of strategic property advice for both individual buildings and complete premises portfolios, across the cultural, commercial, entertainment, financial, utilities, technology and education sectors.

This role would suit an experienced Building Surveyor with strong consulting skills and a genuine interest in solving complex problems. Above all, we're looking for someone that's passionate about enhancing the performance and usability of existing buildings to create a more sustainable world.

What is Asset Consultancy?

Our Asset Consulting team is a multi-disciplinary group and part of the wider Specialist Engineering community within Buro Happold. Working directly with investors, operators, and end user clients the team provide strategic technical advice focussing on the operation, design life, flexibility and maintainability of assets during the anticipated life of a building. Known for their pragmatic, hands-on approach, they work closely with our clients to diagnose and solve problems, optimise building performance, reduce running and operational costs and plan for organisational change. With previous involvement in high-profile estates such as the British Museum, Cambridge University and Birmingham Airport, our Asset Consultancy team have established themselves as true specialists in their field.

The Role

Senior Consultants are often the first point of contact for clients during project delivery, responsible for technical problem solving across many sectors including sport and culture, aviation, commercial, scientific and education. Recent projects have included major airports, national football stadia, university campuses and corporate headquarter buildings as well as an ongoing portfolio of work in the local region.

• Input to the projects is likely to be varied but will include the requirement to:
• Prepare technical reports, schedules, and specifications.
• Act as Job Leader.
• Manage and prioritise own workload and that of technical, administrative, and sub-consultants to ensure timely project delivery and client satisfaction.
• Prepare financial proposals for new work.
• Set up and manage job/project administrative systems, including planning job resourcing/expenditure.
• Ensure all relevant Buro Happold staff are informed of client matters.
• Commitment to CPD and self-learning/development.
• Actively seek new opportunities for the Group internally and externally; actively cross-sell other Buro Happold disciplines externally.
  
  
  

More About You

• As an experienced M&E Surveyor, it is expected that you will be able to demonstrate:
• Ability to accept a high degree of responsibility in a team-based organisation, combined with the ability to work independently.
• Experience in the preparation of technical reports for delivery direct to a client audience
• The applicant will need to be an excellent communicator (verbal, written and listening) with experience of presenting (you will often be required to present solutions directly to clients)
• Bachelors degree (BEng) / BSc or Masters degree (MEng) / MSc in relevant discipline.
• Mobility to travel at short notice.
  
  
  

Why Buro Happold?

From helping shape entire cities to adapting infrastructure to deal with the climate emergency, a career at Buro Happold presents the chance to make a difference. With a world class reputation, our creativity and our people have delivered positive change to clients, the environment, and communities. If you want to be part of something bigger, this is your chance.

What we offer:

• Generous holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum, exclusive of Bank Holidays.
• Hybrid working arrangements.
• Company Pension Scheme.
• Life Assurance.
• Income Protection.
• Flexible Benefits - including Cycle scheme, Dental insurance, Optical Cover, Travel insurance and Corporate discounts.
  
  
  

A place for everyone

Buro Happold values an individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of how you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds, and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment. We are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing differences allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.

Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact [email protected] so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.

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