Location/s: Dublin, IE
Recruiter contact: Christopher Raybould

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

About the business unit 
The Buildings Unit (BLD) 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. 

About the team
The MEP Team in Ireland collaborates on a wide variety of projects in the Built Environment, Transport, Water and Advisory sectors across our three offices, in Belfast, Dublin and Cork. There are also close links with our sister offices all over the UK.

Overview of the role
As a Senior Mechanical Engineer, your role will include assessing and understanding project requirements, undertaking mechanical design across a number of disciplines and agreeing timescales and specifications with design teams, clients and managers. Leading and directing junior staff, you will be actively involved in the preparation of documents, reports and health and safety risk assessments as well as interpreting commercial and/or contractual aspects of correspondence with or between fellow professionals on multidisciplinary projects.

Key responsibilities and duties include:

Managing the delivery of assigned the mechanical and building services elements of multi-disciplinary projects across a range of sectors including, Built Environment, Water, Transportations and Advisory
Working and liaising with associated engineering disciplines as part of delivering projects
Dealing with a and management of internal and external stakeholders
Carrying out design and calculation work using relevant industry software (IES, Revit etc)
Demonstrating technical expertise, providing in depth knowledge whilst proactively coaching and developing more junior team members
Developing, maintaining and monitoring programmes for scheduling and reporting on deliverables across specific projects
Maximising profitability of projects, monitoring against budget, reacting and anticipating potential problems and communicating in line with client expectations

Areas of expertise should include some or all of the below:

Mechanical building services design with experience in a number of the following areas:
- Healthcare
- Education
- Industrial/pharma
- Food Processing
- Transportation
- Water/Wastewater
Steam, Condensate and associated equipment
Low Pressure / Low Temperature Hot Water
Chilled Water and associated equipment
Domestic hot and cold water systems for both commercial and industrial projects
Public health systems
Vacuum systems and associated equipment
Fuel gas systems
Fuel oil systems
Process/plant water
Reverse Osmosis (RO) Water
Medical gases
Natural Ventilation systems
HVAC systems
Refrigeration
Specialist extract systems
BMS (Building Management Systems) and SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems
Instrumentation, Control and Automation systems
Services co-ordination and integration of plant and equipment in buildings and for underground services
BIM, AutoCAD and Revit
Site experience an advantage

Candidate specification
Essential:

B.Eng /M.Eng
Chartered Engineer
Have experience of leading on Mechanical services and some multi disciplinary projects
Have experience of mentoring and leading graduate engineers
Be enthusiastic and ambitious
Possess excellent communication skills, including report writing and presentation
Have the ability to lead electrical elements of one large project or a portfolio of smaller projects
Have some experience of managing client relationships and expectations as there will be a requirement to attend Client Facing meetings via Team

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

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Flexible working
Pension matched up to 7% of base salary
Competitive annual leave
An annual professional institution subscription
Life insurance
Income continuance
Enhanced Paternity leave
Annual company performance bonus scheme – Subject to company performance
Cycle to work scheme
Travel TaxSaver tickets
Commitment to Continuing Professional Development – we are accredited by Engineers Ireland
Mentoring and support for career development and progression

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Senior Mechanical Building Services Engineer

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