Main characteristics
- Location
- Reading, Berkshire
- Company
- AWE
- Salary
- £35720 - £52000/annum + Excellent Benefits
- Employment type
- Permanent
- Category
- Engineering
Job summary
HVAC Design Engineer - Building Services, MechanicalLocation: Aldermaston, Berkshire
Package: £35,720 - £52,000 (depending on your suitability and level of experience)
As part of our People Promise, AWE (one of the best 25 big companies to work for in the UK) has a range of benefits to suit you. These include:
Time to recharge your batteries with 270 hours (including Bank Holidays) of annual leave - plus every other Friday off work!
Consideration for flexible working arrangements so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know on your application if you wish to work part time
Opportunities for Professional Career Development that include funding for the annual membership of a relevant professional body, access to mentors and training
Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services
A generous defined contribution Group Personal Pension (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your own contribution)
Life Assurance
Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending
Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring for your family
A host of voluntary & core benefits to suit your health and wellbeing - more information available on our careers site
What will you be responsible for?
Building services, mechanical, HVAC design engineering solutions which fully comply with all AWE and UK legal requirements together with AWE business case needs
Your role will be to either to propose HVAC mechanical design solutions, or as part of the compliance group review other people's HVAC mechanical design proposals.
Agree with your Compliance Group colleagues the extent of processes required for the specification and verification of projects
Identifying and agreeing with HOD's and others as appropriate, Building Services mechanical design solutions
Ensuring project personnel undertaking engineering design duties meet the requirement to be Suitably Qualified and Experienced Persons
Contribute to integrated safety when reviewing engineering designs and ensure that all technical and design risks are identified and appropriately managed to meet project requirements and the letter and intent of the CDM Regulations, including discharging the designers role
What will you need to be considered?
HVAC background with experience of designing complex HVAC systems in either conventional, hazardous or critical environments such as explosive atmospheres, close environmental control, chemical atmospheres, clean rooms and laboratories, nuclear, business critical etc
Good technical and communication skills including problem solving and decision making
Good oral, written and presentational skills with a particular aptitude for report, documentation and letter writing
Familiarity with standard office software including word processors, spreadsheets, e-mail, presentations and databases, use of either Cymap (MEPworx) or HEVACOMP, or another suitable building services calculation design package
Ideally ONC/HNC in engineering-related discipline or working to Chartered Membership of an engineering institution such as CIBSE
Candidates must be willing and able to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role
Benefits: Excellent Benefits
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