Are you looking to be part of a multi-disciplinary team delivering outstanding places and spaces that create lasting value for clients and communities for generations to come?
Join us for a Summer/Year Out Placement in our Leicester office, where you’ll be given interesting and complex design work, with full support from the team around you.
From day one, you’ll be working on real projects, giving you understanding of the wide variety of our work and opportunities. You’ll gain experience supporting the Building Services Team on projects, ensuring they are delivered to the right scope of time, quality and budget; on design preparation, reports, and contract documents; and when liaising with Clients and Contractors.
Our projects span the full breadth of the built environment, providing opportunity to enhance your technical skills and explore your own skills and interests. The role will focus on delivering portfolios of work across the private and public sector; including education, defence, healthcare, pharmaceutical and commercial.
Your team will support you in taking ownership of your project work, sharing knowledge and providing support as you take on responsibility. In an employee focused environment, you’ll be encouraged to share your thoughts and ideas, and you’ll learn and collaborate together, creating holistic designs that make a meaningful impact on the built environment.
About you
Our ideal Building Services Engineer Placement must have
- Be working towards a Degree in an equivalent professional qualification, 2:1 preferable
- Knowledge of construction industry design processes and procurement arrangements
- Experience using Relux and AutoCad
- Good written and verbal communication – able to discuss work, and communicate effectively to work collaboratively as part of a team.
It would be nice for you to have
- An interest in building Services Engineering
- Great problem-solving skills.
- Good self-motivation.
- Ability to work to deadlines and manage time with multiple tasks
About us
Our nationwide multidisciplinary team of 650+ work collaboratively to deliver outstanding places and spaces that create lasting value for local communities. Through our remarkable history we have established the sound principles of success, and we have the vision and ambition to be even better.
We’re committed to creating sustainable communities where everyone feels safe, cared for and valued. We achieve that by encouraging a diverse, welcoming workplace for our people, clients and colleagues.
We care about our people and improving our society and that means supporting your ambitions and interests at every level. We will provide you with an inspiring environment in which you will be able to drive real progress and impact in your career.
What we offer
Providing a balanced, enjoyable career is important to us, and we work hard to make sure everyone feels a valued part of our organisation. You will receive an attractive salary, and amongst other benefits you can also expect:
- Agile working
- 26 days’ annual leave + Bank Holidays + option to buy up to 5 days’ additional leave
- Private healthcare, life assurance and healthcare cash plan
- Professional subscriptions
- Wellbeing support and Employee Assistance Programme
- Stakeholder pension