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Recruiting for Buro Happold in the UK and Asia-Pacific

Thrive on openness, respect and collaboration? Good. Us too. Join as an Associate Technology Engineer and create transformative outcomes for people, planet and places.

This role will suit a candidate with experience leading the development of technology infrastructures (e.g., Smart Building Technology, Passive ICT infrastructure, Structured Cabling, Wireless Networks, IoT, etc). from brief through to specification and tender support.

What is Technology Consulting?

Digital technology is advancing at pace and continuing to shape the built environment. Buro Happold provide the technology expertise clients require to determine and implement their digital vision.

Our clients can benefit from bespoke strategies, followed by robust engineering solutions that holistically consider risk, operational requirements, the business case for technology investment and the wider architectural vision. By engaging in leading research and development, we navigate and influence industry and the regulatory and statutory landscape.

Our experience and position across digital technology and the construction industry uniquely qualifies us to offer services uncommon to traditional engineering practices. We work directly with clients to uncover benefits that can be realised through the successful deployment of a broad range of technologies. Alongside this, we work with architects, technical specialists, utilities providers, technology providers, contractors, engineers and other stakeholders across all project phases to ensure the building design scheme is capable of meeting the current and future digital needs of its users.

Your next role

This role will see you working on both single and multidisciplinary consultancy projects across a range of sectors, including cities, stadia, culture, workplace, transport, education, residential and more. You will be client-facing and on a day-to-day basis cover consultancy activities, design and technical advisory, project management, business development, and R&D.

Within Buro Happold. you will work closely with our technology experts from across the practice involving specialisms such as digital strategy, experience analysts, smart buildings, smart cities, digital twins, digital infrastructure and data analytics. In this role as well as design you will play a key part of developing more business for the team working closely with the discipline leader to grow market share and help realise the discipline’s growth potential.

Key Duties

• Leading project delivery on behalf of the technology discipline.
• Consulting with clients, collaborators and stakeholders to capture requirements and probe into the desired outcomes.
• Develop briefs and strategies, market capability, roadmaps and budgets taking into account a variety of factors.
• Input into consultative work – will require a good understanding of key business drivers for digital technology and its implementation, and the ability to support clients in developing visions, briefs and strategies for subsequent design work.
• Communicating with clients to support them in developing their aspirations and ideas to help tailor solutions bespoke to each project, that consider up to date technology and harness the benefits of integration with other services and disciplines.
• Understanding and advocating smart building and cities technologies; developing s strategies that support the business aspirations of the client’s development.
• Monitoring yours and others use of project finances; effectively managing time and resource within your team;
• Mentorship and line management of more junior staff.
• Take an active role in helping to promote the discipline and engage with senior management in supporting the development of corporate strategy.

You will be an expert in helping clients embrace and leverage technology in the built environment, adept at applying your skills at city masterplanning through to building fit-outs, working with clients and collaborators at the beginning of their digital transformations through to supervising contractors in delivery of solutions.

Further requirements include:

• Extensive experience in a Technology role focussed on the built environment.
• Experience leading the development of technology infrastructures (e.g., Smart Building Technology, Passive ICT infrastructure, Structured Cabling, Wireless Networks, IoT, etc) from brief through to specification and tender support.
• Previous evidence of project leadership and end-client interaction.
• Business development experience is highly advantageous.
• Relevant industrial qualifications and a desire to pursue professional registration with a relevant body.
• Expertise in a specific field of information technology is important, ideally accompanied by design experience.

What we offer

• Hybrid working arrangements.
• Attractive salary and benefits package including life assurance, private medical cover, car allowance, and income protection.
• Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements.
• Generous company pension scheme.
• Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts.
• Enhanced parenthood leave policies.
• 3pm finish on the last Friday of the month.
• A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you.
• Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions
• A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities.
• A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring.
• An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won’t be far from the exceptional.

At Buro Happold, everyone else’s extraordinary is just our everyday.

Apply today and be a part of our legacy.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Design

• Industries

  Construction, Civil Engineering, and Architecture and Planning

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