Senior Design Engineer (HVAC)

Senior Design Engineer (HVAC)

Location: Motherwell, MAXIM park office

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: Competitive

About the Role: 

Join our client as a Senior Design Engineer (HVAC) and help shape projects that connect communities and impact daily life for millions. This role involves providing ventilation design solutions and ensuring that ventilation design deliverables and procurement of ventilation packages meet project requirements.

NB. Due to the nature of the projects, any interested candidates must be eligible to obtain SC Clearance.

Role Purpose:

• Lead HVAC design, creating design deliverables.
• Manage ventilation and ductwork engineering discipline.
• Create mechanical ventilation design deliverables for both low and high integrity ductwork systems.
• Input to process, heat exchanger, treatment plant, and prime mover specifications and design.
• Review and check vendor documentation for mechanical compliance with project specifications.
• Ensure design risks are considered and prepare design risk assessments.
• Provide strong technical support and identify innovative and robust solutions.
• Develop and maintain relationships with relevant technical consultants and suppliers.
• Maintain personal expertise and knowledge to ensure the business stream is at the forefront of the industry.

Key Accountabilities:

• Take on the lead role in HVAC Design, creating design deliverables.
• Lead the ventilation & ductwork engineering discipline.
• Create mechanical ventilation design deliverables for both low and high integrity ductwork systems.
• Input to process, heat exchanger, treatment plant, and prime mover specifications and design.
• Review and check vendor documentation for mechanical compliance with project specifications.
• Ensure design risks are considered and prepare design risk assessments. Communicate residual design risks to others.
• Provide strong technical support and identify innovative and robust solutions.
• Develop and maintain relationships with relevant technical consultants and suppliers.
• Maintain personal expertise and knowledge to ensure that the business stream is at the forefront of the industry.

What a great candidate looks like:

• Proven prior experience working on mid-large scale construction and mechanical engineering projects in a ‘Senior Design Engineer - HVAC’ capacity.
• Solid experience with HVAC calculations, modeling/drawings.
• Ideally proficient in HEVACOMP / Open Buildings Designer, or similar (StabiCAD, MagiCAD, FineHVAC).
• Detailed knowledge of codes of practice and other regulatory material.
• Competent in the use of 3-D solid modeling software such as SolidWorks/Inventor.
• Able to perform calculations related to heating, ventilation, and air conditioning and the fluid flow through such systems.
• Clear focus on collaboration and building relationships with other engineers and project teams to deliver cost-effective and acceptable engineering solutions.
• Experience in a broad range of heavy industries such as petrochemical, power generation, and nuclear.
• Experience and knowledge of PPMOF (Pre-Assembly, Pre-Fabrication Modularisation and Offsite) construction.

Why Join: 

Day in, day out, their teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting, and meaningful projects; developing, building, and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata).
• Family-friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave.
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes, and much more.

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Your candidate experience is at the utmost importance to us. If you are not yet ready to apply but would like to discuss any of the above or require any reasonable adjustments (e.g. being able to apply in a different format), please contact ricky.shaw@morson.com to arrange a confidential conversation.