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The Lead Engineer reports to the Associate/Principal Engineer and is responsible for ensuring the project deliverables she/he works on meet the client requirements and are delivered on time and budget across a wide range of activities.

The role will require a mix of technical engineering, stakeholder management and project management competence and experience. You must be proactive and comfortable working with minimal supervision, but also understand your own limitations and seek support/approval when required. You must be engaged in your own personal development, as it is essential the Lead Engineer has a strong technical understanding of most of the areas and services that FairHeat manage. It is expected that you will be working towards Chartered Engineer status in your relevant engineering discipline.

Your core activities will be split across two business areas, New Build and Operations:

• When working with the New Build team, your role will consist primarily of writing specifications; reviewing designs; reviewing technical submissions; checking installation against design; witnessing network commissioning; acceptance testing post commissioning; producing models and reports for presentation back to clients. You will also work on large scale District Heating projects whereby you will be carrying the system design of low temperature heat network, encompassing the energy centre, buried network and building level connections.
• When working with the Operations team, your role will consist primarily of carrying out site audits; devising performance improvement solution; analysing site performance by assessing complex data; producing scope of works documents for site works and project management of site improvement works. In addition, across both areas you will be assisting clients set up the internal processes and frameworks for ensuring the effective delivery and operation of heat networks.

As a Lead Engineer, you will be the primary owner of the Project Risk Register for projects where you are acting as lead engineer and you will be expected to use this tool to effectively manage, communicate and mitigate the project risks. Additionally, the role will provide ongoing support to the senior management team in implementation of the business objectives, vision and core values.

The Lead Engineer is expected to provide mentorship to graduate and consulting engineers, ensuring the upskilling and knowledge growth of these individuals.

As part of your development into a more senior role, you will be expected to gain experience in producing client proposals for scope of works under your management and assist the Associate/Principal Engineer in winning new and repeat business. You will also be expected to develop and understanding of the relevant regulations, policies and standards that govern the industry.

It is expected that the Lead Engineer will develop into a leading expert within the market with regards to: heat network design; performance monitoring; analysing system level performance of networks; and the cost and effectiveness of implementing different types of physical interventions to heating systems and component equipment (e.g. HIUs).

The Senior Engineer reports to the Associate/Principal Engineer and is responsible for ensuring the project deliverables she/he works on meet the client requirements and are delivered on time and budget across a wide range of activities.

The role will require a mix of technical engineering, stakeholder management and project management competence and experience. You must be proactive and comfortable working with minimal supervision, but also understand your own limitations and seek support/approval when required. You must be engaged in your own personal development, as it is essential the Senior Engineer has a strong technical understanding of most of the areas and services that FairHeat manage. It is expected that you will be a Chartered Engineer in your relevant engineering discipline.

Your core activities will be split across two business areas, New Build and Operations:

• When working with the New Build team, your role will consist primarily of writing specifications; reviewing designs; reviewing technical submissions; checking installation against design; witnessing network commissioning; acceptance testing post commissioning; producing models and reports for presentation back to clients. You will also work on large scale District Heating projects whereby you will be carrying the system design of low temperature heat network, encompassing the energy centre, buried network and building level connections.
• When working with the Operations team, your role will consist primarily of carrying out site audits; devising performance improvement solution; analysing site performance by assessing complex data; producing scope of works documents for site works and project management of site improvement works. In addition, across both areas you will be assisting clients set up the internal processes and frameworks for ensuring the effective delivery and operation of heat networks.
• For the above technical duties, you will be expected to work at a largely autonomous level, with senior management support where necessary with respect to key technical and commercial risks.

As a Senior Engineer, as well as the technical aspects of the role, you will be expected to manage multiple project teams working across several parallel projects. Your role will involve determining and delegating the necessary activities amongst the teams to deliver against the client scope, which will involve resource planning and management. You will be responsible for managing the project budget, reporting on this monthly.

In addition, you will have responsibility for managing key clients, involving building client relationships and producing proposals that match FairHeat services with their requirements. As a Senior member of the engineering team, you will be expected to identify these client requirements and position FairHeat as their long-term partner of choice for heat network and heating/chilled system quality assurance and design.

The Senior Engineer is expected to provide mentorship to all engineers, ensuring the upskilling and knowledge growth of these individuals.

It is expected that the Senior Engineer will develop into a leading expert within the market with regards to: heat network design; performance monitoring; analysing system level performance of networks; and the cost and effectiveness of implementing different types of physical interventions to heating systems and component equipment (e.g. HIUs). As part of this, you will be expected to support FairHeat in their industry initiatives, which includes technical webinars to CIBSE, steering committee members of various working groups/technical standards and marketing events.

The Project Manager reports to Head of Delivery and is responsible for ensuring the project deliverables she/he works on meet the client requirements and are delivered safely, on time and within budget across a wide range of activities.

The role will require a mix of project management, technical engineering and strong stakeholder management. You must be proactive and comfortable working with minimal supervision, but also understand your own limitations and seek support/approval when required. You must be engaged in your own personal development, as it is essential the Project Manager has a strong technical and commercial understanding of most of the areas and services that FairHeat manage.

The Project Manager will look after a range of live heat network construction projects of the following typical scope:

• Plantroom and network end of life equipment replacements.
• Full plantroom and network retrofits to improve performance (e.g. Heat Network Efficiency Scheme funded projects).
• Heat pump retrofits to decarbonise existing buildings (e.g. PSDS project delivery management).
• HIU and heat meter upgrade/replacement works.
• District Heating project installations, including energy centres, buried networks and substation plantrooms

Are you passionate about the details? Are high standards part of your DNA? Do you understand the rigor of best practice and know how to steer a contract to completion avoiding contractual pitfalls? Do you want to contribute to a low carbon future?

FairHeat are a fast-growing consultancy committed to radically reduce carbon emissions through decarbonising heat by designing and promoting effective heat systems.
We provide expert support to organisations implementing heat networks to ensure that the systems they commission are the most efficient and decarbonised solutions they can be. Right now, we need you on our team!

You will be at the heart of our operations, providing contract management expertise to support the growth of our business. Key to the role is the appraisal and interpretation of the Client requirements to ensure that all commercial and legislative parameters of the project are understood and captured. Equally important is the management of all aspects of contractor engagement.