• Move from consultant to client side technical authority. You'll review designs against real standards, not just the NCC baseline
• 37 hour week. Your boss leaves at 4:30pm every day. No project churn, no billable hours breathing down your neck
• Brand new role. You'll help shape how 100+ buildings across a multi campus portfolio get engineered, not just push one job at a time

Sound like a step up? Keep reading.

Is this you?

You've done your time in design. You know your way around mechanical systems, maybe some electrical too. You've been on site, seen a job through construction and handover, not just handed over drawings and moved on.

And you're tired of the treadmill. Billable hours. Fee pressure. Consultants getting squeezed to cut corners on a job you know deserves better.

If that's ringing true, this one's worth a call.

What you'll be doing (and why you'll enjoy it)

You'll sit inside a small, tight engineering team that acts as technical advisor across a large portfolio of over 100 buildings. Two of the team are BMS specialists. What's missing is mechanical and electrical depth, which is where you come in.

You'll attend design meetings and hold consultants to account against internal commissioning and BMS standards that go above and beyond the NCC. You'll get involved early in project lifecycles, managing commissioning activity, reviewing fire matrixes, and overseeing integrated fire mode testing and witness testing.

You don't need to be deep in every discipline. You need to be fluent across all of them and comfortable navigating between mechanical, electrical, fire and hydraulics.

And here's the bit that matters. This isn't a design job. It's governance. You're the one pushing back on builders and project managers when something's not up to standard, not the other way around.

What you'll need

• An engineering degree. Mechanical background preferred, or electrical with strong HVAC knowledge will also be considered
• 5 to 8 years' experience from a consultancy, contractor or FM background, with real exposure to capital works and existing buildings, not just greenfield design
• Genuine cross-disciplinary confidence. You can talk fire, mechanical, electrical and hydraulics without needing a specialist in the room

NER isn't required. This team advises, it doesn't sign off.

What you'll get

A package around $140K to $160k Super can be restructured to boost take-home if that suits you better.

A 37 hour week that's actually respected. No churn, no chasing fees, no weekend emails.

The stability of a public institution and an EBA behind you, working for a director with 15 years' tenure who leads with people first.

And a seat at the table shaping how standards get built and enforced across the whole portfolio, not just applied to one job at a time.

What's next?

If this sounds like your next move, give me a call.

Gareth McCafferty — Connexus Recruitment