Location: Plymouth / Exeter
Employment Type: Permanent
Overview
A leading global multidisciplinary consultancy is strengthening its Mechanical Building Services capability across Exeter and Plymouth, supporting delivery of complex, high-profile infrastructure and defence projects.
The role sits within a building services team, delivering multidisciplinary engineering solutions across defence, infrastructure, healthcare, justice, education and commercial developments.
A significant proportion of workload is within secure environments requiring high technical assurance, resilience and performance-led engineering design.
Key Responsibilities
Lead mechanical building services design across all RIBA stages (0–7)
Design HVAC systems including heating, cooling, ventilation and associated plant
Provide technical leadership across multi-disciplinary project teams
Produce and review calculations, specifications and detailed design outputs
Ensure compliance with UK regulations, CIBSE guidance and internal standards
Attend and lead client and stakeholder meetings
Mentor and support junior engineers
Oversee technical quality and design assurance across projects
Contribute to BIM coordination and digital engineering processes
Requirements
Degree qualified in Mechanical Engineering or Building Services Engineering
Strong consultancy experience in mechanical building services design
Proven delivery of UK construction projects across multiple stages
Ability to lead technical design on complex, multi-disciplinary schemes
Chartered Engineer or working towards (required for Senior/Principal progression)
Experience in defence or secure infrastructure advantageous
Strong Revit / BIM capability desirable
Benefits
Work on nationally significant defence and infrastructure programmes
Clear progression into Associate and leadership roles
Hybrid and flexible working culture
Strong global technical expertise network
Long-term secured pipeline of major projects
If you're interested, please contact Conner Richards at RGB Recruitment – (url removed)
Salary description
£50000.00 - £65000.00 per year