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Thrive on openness, respect and collaboration? Good. Us too. Join as our new Senior Acoustics Consultant.

The purpose of this role is to provide vital support to the success of the acoustics team to deliver our clients projects. We have a number a growing number of exciting projects in the pipeline and are looking to recruit a senior acoustic consultant who can hit the ground running.

Key Duties

• Work within agreed budgets and profit targets, raising and/or resolving any concerns that arise.
• As part of the project team, provide input on design competitions and bids.
• Draft fee proposals for projects and additional work.
• Autonomously represent Buro Happold to clients, architects and collaborators.
• Ensure all work completed is reviewed appropriately. Review work of others as assigned.
• Understand client acoustic requirements and produce a client brief.

Leadership

• Develop an internal and external profile through networking, to participate in bidding and winning of projects.
• Deliver excellent performance in all areas of the role.
• Lead the design, analysis and consultancy on a wide variety of projects as guided by the relevant project leader.
• Mentor and support more junior team members, helping them develop their careers.

Collaboration

• Interface with other areas of the firm through project work.
• Work as part of a single or multi-disciplinary team attending and chairing meetings with architects, planners, contractors, government agencies etc. in an advisory capacity.

Technical Competence

• Propose multiple solutions to challenges, articulating the benefits and shortfalls of each to the client, considering other disciplines’ requirements within these solutions.
• Produce insightful reports, presentations, models and drawings for the client at an excellent technical standard, high level of accuracy and in a timely manner.
• Be familiar with and comply with all Buro Happold’s internal quality assurance procedures.
• Ensure ongoing learning and Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
• Maintain market knowledge of industry-leading technologies.
• Ongoing development of our design tools, including Revit, Rhino, Grasshopper and Dynamo.

Your Skills and Experience

• Degree level education.
• Working toward Professional Accreditation of a recognised and relevant organisation.
• Proven experience in a comparable role.
• Strong team player capability, with potential to line manage more junior team members.
• Effective communication capability.
• Understanding of relevant policy and regulation.

What We Offer You

• Hybrid working arrangements.
• Attractive salary and benefits package including life assurance and income protection.
• Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements.
• Generous company pension scheme.
• Individual private medical insurance.
• 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.

Diversity & Inclusion

Buro Happold values an individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of how you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds, and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other's differences is key, we want employees to feel they don't have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment. We are keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing differences allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.

Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact recruitment@burohappold.com so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.

Job Details

• Seniority Level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Job Function: Management and Manufacturing
• Industry: Construction