About us
Black & White Engineering is a multi-award-winning global engineering consultancy, with over 300 employees in our global teams in UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Australia. We have been providing a wide range of Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) engineering consultancy services since 2007. Our engineering expertise reaches across all sectors of the construction industry, providing pragmatic and practical design solutions to ensure our projects are spatially and operationally efficient. Our design process fully considers the installation and maintenance practicalities on site. As a business, our ambition is to be a leading global MEP consultancy and as a purposeful employer, our Building Management Systems (BMS) Team is critical to our overall success. Reporting to our BMS Controls Associate Director the purpose of this role is to provide technical expertise for BMS and ensure the necessary controls and project outputs are Best in Class and fully meet the client's technical brief. The ideal candidate will have a strong BMS background, with experience in the integration and convergence of other systems such as Access, Security, Fire, and Client IT networks, and a strong understanding of Mechanical, Electrical and Building Services Systems.
The role
To act as a Senior Power Systems Engineer for a multi-disciplined team. To provide sound technical, design support on MV and HV engineering disciplines, to ensure project requirements and clients' specifications are fully met. Apply initiative and ownership to all key areas of responsibility.
Key accountabilities
- Contribute to the development and growth of the company by identifying new opportunities and potential areas for growth and also maintaining and developing existing client relationships.
- Act as part of a multi-disciplinary design team to ensure successful preparation and delivery on project objectives, including providing technical support.
- Produce budgets for clients based on their specifications and monitor spend to ensure that, as far as possible, projects are delivered within their budget and schedule. Liaise with the Client and external design teams as necessary for the successful delivery of projects.
- Monitor and address own training and development requirements.
- Keep up to date with technical developments, national and international standards and legislative requirements related to the discipline.
- Compile specifications, drawings and relevant Contract documents and maintain the required technical quality of work, ensuring that designs comply with the relevant codes, standards, regulations and procedures.
- Provide power systems engineering services design to buildings and infrastructure.
- Identify scope and schedule changes in accordance with the change control process, maintain planning and cost control on all scopes. ? Represents the team/group/profession/discipline at external meetings.
- Responsible for monitoring budgets and controlling expenditure to meet financial targets for own areas.
- Visit UK and overseas sites and factories to undertake inspections, factory acceptance tests, site acceptance tests etc.
Skills & experience
- Has a relevant degree in engineering, or equivalent qualification, or sufficient suitable experience
- Able to demonstrate extensive experience of a wide range of technical areas
- Technical knowledge of resilient control engineering relating to power systems
- Track record of having worked on a variety MV and HV designs and the delivery of small to large scale projects in a variety of sectors, from concept designs through to completion, able to execute power engineering activities within the budget and schedule, whilst maintaining technical integrity