Building Services Engineer - Belfast, NI
DIVISION: BUILDING
LOCATION: BELFAST, NI
Join our expanding team at GRAHAM in the Northern Ireland. We're seeking a proactive Building Services Engineer to support our Building Services Manager. If you're passionate about the construction industry and eager to develop your skills, this role is for you.
As a Building Services Engineer, you'll assist with tender processes, commercial management, design development, operational activities, and handover procedures. Essential behavioural competencies include commercial awareness, effective communication, teamwork, initiative, and problem-solving.
YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FOLLOWING:
Tender
- Assist with presentations and submittals to ensure that the solution offers technical excellence in all areas of services.
- Establish clear parameters of system requirements and communicate effectively with supply chain to establish cost & design proposals to support our tender submissions.
- Attend tender interviews when required
- Check sub-contractor quotations and ensure M&E performance specification has been covered.
Commercial
- Commercial management of project to achieve set targets.
- Ensure close liaison with the commercial team to manage project requirements and performance.
- Manage change, record variations and communicate to the team.
- Check sub-contractor valuation claims
Design Development
- Collaborate in design process with wider team, ensuring that design is sympathetic with the services, and that we minimize the level of modification of systems.
- Work with Design Manager to brief the M&E consultants before design starts.
- Attend design team meetings.
- Chair M&E workshops
- Review M&E drawings against client’s brief, budget, technical / Building Control compliance and discuss options with the M&E consultants.
- Mark-up M&E drawings and provide feedback to Design Manager & M&E consultants
- Assist Design Manager with obtaining M&E design approvals from client team.
- Look for value engineering opportunities, and simpler / faster methods of installation
Operational / Site Activity
- Organise and chair technical services meetings with all M&E sub-contractors
- Monitor installation quality
- Attend design team meetings
- Monitor compliance with latest building regulations
- Ensure M&E installations are in line with client ER’s and Consultant performance specification Update M&E section of progress report and attend client progress meetings
- Liaise with senior management and client with any potential issues
- Provide technical support to project delivery team - To ensure delivery is in line with key business objectives
Handover / O&M
- Liaise with sub-contractor to develop commissioning programme
- Organise and lead client demonstrations / training
- Inspect all commissioning certification
- Check as installed drawings and ensure information is accurate / adequate
- Ensure all O&M information is correct and specific to each project
- Carry out project KPI’s
Additional Points
- As an employee you must represent GRAHAM in a professional manner at all times.
- All sensitive information including commercial or client / subcontractor details are to be treated as confidential.
- Essential: Relevant education or experience in construction industry.
Behavioural Competencies
- Commercial Awareness
- Effective Communication Skills
- Team Player
- Initiative
- Planning and Prioritising
- Problem Solving
- Client Focus
- Safety Awareness
This job description is intended to give the post holder an appreciation of the role envisaged for the Building Services Engineer and the range of duties to be undertaken. It does not attempt to detail every activity. Specific tasks and objectives will be agreed with the post holder at regular intervals.
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Our Commitment
We are proud to say that we are a committed Equal Opportunities Employer and we aim to be the first choice for people from all backgrounds. We seek to promote respect for the individual and equality of opportunities. We believe that everyone should be treated solely on the basis of personal merit and contribution throughout their GRAHAM career journey and not on the value of artificial barriers, prejudices, or preferences.
If you require any adjustments or accommodations during the application or interview process, please let us know. We look forward to welcoming applicants from all backgrounds
We are only able to consider applications from individuals who are eligible to live and work in the UK, as per Home Office regulations. Please check your eligibility with the regulations before applying. Individuals with a current time restricted right to work in the UK, should contact the Human Resources team in the first instance.
A basic disclosure may be requested if security clearance is required by 3rd party clients and a criminal record will not necessarily be a bar to obtaining a position. Our Access NI/Vetting and Barring Scheme Policy and Policy on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders is available upon request.
GRAHAM reserves the right to carry out checks to ensure the validity of an applicant’s experience and/or qualifications and we expect all applicants to comply with any such requests for information. Failure to do so or evidence of any falsification of information will lead to either removal from the recruitment process or if already in employment potential termination of contract through the company disciplinary procedure.