Associate Engineer - Mechanical 

Haywards Heath, West Sussex

Salary £63,911.66

37 Hours per week

Hamson Barron Smith, who are part of Norse Group operate from a national network of key strategic geographic hubs: London, Haywards Heath and Norwich. The core services we provide are architecture, surveying, building services, engineering, and strategic development & consultancy.

We are looking to recruit an experienced Associate Engineer who will will be responsible for the provision of line management and direction to the Mechanical team, ensuring high quality, design, specification, and management of the full range of mechanical services.

Main responsibilities:

• Supervise, direct and manage the Mechanical engineering team including team resource planning, management and monitoring of workload.
• Input to office resource plan and monitoring of profile and loss on all projects to ensure that projects are run efficiently.
• Prepare schemes, including use of CAD, produce budget costs, detailed specifications, analyse tenders and supervise installations.
• Carry out the design and management of all types of mechanical services projects including producing budget estimates, drawings, detailed service specifications, tender documentation and undertaking full contract administration duties on mechanical led projects.
• Deliver mechanical projects in full in accordance with client’s brief and professional standards.
• Act as the single point of contact on specific engineering issues across a range of clients.
• Promote and manage the competitive, efficient and effective delivery of mechanical services installations and energy management services to clients.
• Responsible for identifying new business opportunities.
• Fee earning at 90%, and contribute to the achievement of business plan objectives and targets.
• This role requires frequent travel to other offices and sites as required.
• Carry out duties appropriate to the grade of the post.
• Inspire a culture of excellence and continuous improvement, ensuring the delivery of demonstrable high quality products and services which embrace quality standards.
• Demonstrate personal commitment to the Norse Way CSR strategy.

Candidate Requirements: 

• Professional membership of the Chartered Institute of Building Service Engineers and working or prepared to work towards Chartered status
• Extensive experience in a similar related role
• HNC/HND in a Mechanical Engineering related discipline
• Extensive experience in a similar related role
• Holds a current site card or is prepared to immediately attain
• Familiar with construction, health and safety legislation and risks and hazards associated with asbestos

What we can offer you:

• A work life balance
• 27 Days Holiday, plus 8 Bank Holiday (with annual option to purchase additional leave)
• Norse Consulting Sickness Scheme
• Royal London Pension Scheme
• Payment of annual professional subscription
• BUPA Health Cash Plan
• BUPA PMI reduced rate scheme
• Flexible & hybrid working arrangements
• Opportunity to obtain higher education qualifications through Norse Group

We are committed to employment practices and behaviours which encourage diversity, promote equality of treatment and eliminate unlawful and or unfair discrimination.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy once we have received sufficient applications. If you have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful and will not be progressed to the next stage.