Atkins Building Services team, part of the Infrastructure divisions’ Building Design practice, have a great opportunity for someone to take up a secondment in our Global Design Centre (GDC) in Bangalore, India, for an initial circa 12-month period.
This Team Leader role will form an integral part of the UK Building Services practice and have the primary objective of further developing a strong technical delivery team for Building Services within the Global Design Centre.
Aim - Introduction/Role Purpose:
- Support the building and growth of a team of engineers and BIM technicians to support the UK Regional Building Services Team
- Become fully productive on UK Regional projects
- Provide integral engineering support to UK Team
- Identify innovative practices to drive better, predictable and consistent delivery (understand UK specific working practices)
- Support diversification of work done by GDC for UK
- Empower the GDC team to be more autonomous in decision making
- Create a foundation of best practices for technical delivery
- Enforce the technical self-auditing process
Tasks – Role responsibilities:
- Assemble teams/resource to service UK Regional projects
- Act as a single point of contact to resolve GDC project issues
- Provide agile support to UK requests for work on project tasks
- Challenge UK team to allocate more work to GDC My Team
- Inspire technical best practices are being employed within the GDC
- Ensure the Audit processes are taking place
- Attend weekly resource call
Individual Qualities:
- Possess broad technical knowledge and skill in engineering matters – (see Appendix A for specific requirements)
- Open and clear communication skills, unafraid to deliver bad news or request support
- Identify areas for development and engage support from local GDC management team
- Ability to influence and engage staff at all levels to ensure delivery to project targets.
- Commitment to implement rigorous technical assurance
- CIBSE MEng and Chartered Engineer Status preferred
APPENDIX A – Specific Requirements
Required Technical capabilities – (specific skills):
- Significant experience of designing both new-build and UK specific refurbishment projects
- Good analytical capabilities
- Capable of being primary liaison with UK.
- Understanding of BSRIA BG6 documentation
- Capable of liaising with other disciplines and leading coordination of Building Services design with wider project requirements.
- Capable of checking quality of junior engineers’ work to ensure it is technically sound.
- Capable of implementing a sound technical delivery group within the GDC, focussing on sound design, autonomous decision making and timeous delivery
Knowledge of:
- IES, Revit, Building Regulations, CIBSE Codes, Relevant International Standards and Common industry analysis and design software
Development objectives:
- Understanding of typical UK building details
- Understanding of RIBA work stages and appropriate level of delivery for each of these.
- Understanding of rail sector GRIP work stages and processes.
- Understanding of UK building services portfolio and engagement with UK building services technical network
ATKINS, part of the SNC Lavalin Group, is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability.
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