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Associate Mechanical Engineer | Building Services
 
Thomas Search are partnered with a leading, forward-thinking Muli disciplinary consultancy to appoint an Associate Mechanical Design Engineer into their expanding South-West Building Consultancy team.
 
This is an opportunity for an Associate Mechanical Building Services Engineer who wants to operate at the technical and professional core of project delivery.
You'll be joining an established MEP design team delivering work across a wide and balanced project portfolio, spanning residential, regeneration, healthcare, education, and commercial sectors. The role is design-led, client-facing, and suited to an engineer who is confident taking responsibility for outcomes, as well as a desire to lead projects, mentor junior members and ambition to succeed.
 
Working within a multi-disciplinary environment, you'll lead mechanical design packages, manage your own workload, and contribute to the successful delivery of projects from early concept through detailed design and construction support.
 
The role will involve:

• Leading MEP Engineering teams on delivery
• Managing risk within MEP engineering projects having excellent commercial acumen.
• To act as the lead engineer in a design team being responsible for mechanical building services concept and detailed design
• Managing and coordinating internal disciplines on smaller schemes
• Producing detailed designs, calculations, reports, drawings, and specifications
• Using industry-standard tools such as Hevacomp, IES, CAD, and Revit
• Liaising closely with other professionals, including structural engineers, architects, surveyors, and contractors of in-house and external project teams
• Attending and contributing to client, design, and technical meetings
• Mentoring and supporting junior engineers and apprentices

 
What we're looking for:

• Strong background in mechanical building services design
• Experience from a consultancy or technically focused contractor environment
• Degree qualified (or equivalent: HNC/HND+)
• Chartered Engineer (CEng) status
• Confident communicator with a collaborative mindset
• High technical standards and pride in quality delivery

 
This role offers technical autonomy, trusted client exposure, and progression within a supportive, well-structured engineering environment.
 
Interested?
 
Apply directly or reach out in confidence to David at dward@thomassearch.co.uk for a discreet and informative disclosure.

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