Senior Associate Heat Networks Engineer

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

12/10/2024

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About The Business Unit

The Buildings and Cities Unit (BNC) has a major presence in Mott MacDonald's regional offices throughout the UK and mainland Europe, providing a wide range of diverse and transferable cross-sector skills across five key Sectors; Advisory, Built Environment, Energy, Transportation and Water. We also provide local services to customers and technical leadership to the rest of the Group in these sectors.

Overview Of Role

As a Senior Associate Heat Networks Engineer, you will join an established and innovative team of advisors and consultants, delivering an exciting portfolio of work in the public and private sectors. As you contribute to the collective growth of our team’s capability, we will offer you exceptional opportunities for technical and management skillset development and long-term career progression.

Your role will be rewarding and varied, and responsibilities will typically include

• Supporting the development of technical solutions and energy strategies to help the Buildings and Infrastructure sector meet governmental and local ‘net zero carbon’ targets, focusing on both heat and power.
• Support the development of potential heat networks projects from early stage strategies and masterplans through to feasibility assessments, design and delivery.
• Contribute to and lead on the delivery of heat networks feasibility studies and reports. Including undertaking technoeconomic analysis and business case development.
• Develop projects from strategic definition through to concept stage in alignment with CIBSE Code of Practice (CP1).
• Understanding and communicating ‘net zero carbon’ policies to clients, in support of them setting their own ‘net zero carbon’ aspirations and developing action plans to meet defined outcomes.
• Interfacing net zero carbon advisory with wider buildings and infrastructure outcome needs, such as environmental parameters to achieve ‘healthy buildings’ and whole life cost effectiveness in operation
• Ensuring the production of deliverables to agreed timelines and within budget
• Supporting business development related activities, identifying opportunities/prospects to allow us to prepare/position the team to produce winning proposals
• Supporting the development of client relationships to provide good prospects and repeat business
• Contributing to winning new work; client-facing at a senior level
  
  

Candidate Specification

Ultimately, we deliver solutions, and use our restless curiosity and leading-edge skills to challenge and innovate. So, we’re looking for you to demonstrate the skills, qualifications and experience listed below.

• Technical and commercial aspects of District heating and heat networks (ideally complete with CIBSE Heat Network Consultant accreditation)
• Demonstrable experience in the delivery of city scale heat networks including; master planning, feasibility, techno-economic feasibility, detailed project development and design. To CIBSE CP1 and HNDU requirements.
• Experience undertaking technoeconomic analysis of heat networks and developing business cases to support with project procurements.
• Common HVAC Systems and how they interact with heating and cooling networks.
• Extensive experience in process engineering, ideally specialising in heating/cooling projects.
• Working knowledge and/or awareness of Heat Network modelling software e.g. EnergyPro, COMSOF, Hysopt etc
• Robust understanding of various options for provision of low carbon heat and the barriers and opportunities for their use in various applications.
• Excellent technical knowledge and understanding of relevant standards and regulations including but not limited to; Heat Networks Regulations, Heat Networks Zoning, CIBSE CP1 etc.
• Knowledge of heat network support and grant funding opportunities including but not limited to; Heat Networks Delivery Unit, Green Heat Networks Fund, Heat Networks Efficiency Scheme etc.
• Whole life cost and carbon modelling
• Qualified in a related technical subject (Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree)
• Chartered or approaching chartered status with a relevant professional body
• A range of report writing, and visual and verbal presentation techniques
• Willingness and patience to provide high levels of personal support to clients
• Ability to work well collaboratively, both internally and with external partners and sub-contractors and in diverse multidisciplinary teams
• Good analytical skills
• Sound knowledge and use of MS Office suite of software
  
  

If you meet 80% or more of what we’re looking for, please still apply. We understand not everyone will meet all the requirements, but you might have skills we didn’t know we need.

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Agile working

Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

We Offer Some Fantastic Benefits Including

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.
  
  

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.
  
  

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.
  
  

Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.
  
  

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.
  
  

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.
  
  

Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.

Location(s):

Glasgow, GB Birmingham, GB Leeds, GB London, GB

Contract Type: Permanent

Work Pattern: Full Time

Market: Buildings

Discipline: Building services

Job Ref: 6325

Recruiter Contact: Chris Raybould