Electrical Engineer, Edinburgh
Job Description
Job Title: Electrical Engineer
Directly reports to: Senior Engineer / Associate
No of Direct Reports: 0
Location: Edinburgh
Position Summary:
To support the Senior/Associate Engineer(s) in producing robust design solutions including drawing and written deliverables with moderate supervision.
Responsibilities and authority:
- Produce Electrical Design drawings, calculations (Amtech, Hevacomp, IES, Relux, Dialux), reports, specifications and schedules
- Contribute to BREEAM or equivalent legislation
- Contribute to Building Regulations Section 6 compliance modelling
- Witness test the proving and commissioning procedures of final installations
- Assist the development of trainee engineers
- Work to internal and external project programs effectively
- Work to company Quality Assurance management systems
- Support Senior/ Associate Engineers and Management
Education and Experience:
- Engineering degree preferred. Minimum Engineering HNC/D or equivalent qualification
- Previous experience in a Building Services consultancy required
Specific skills, knowledge, competencies and training
Essential:
- Competent in AutoCad and knowledge of Revit
- Communicate effectively with internal and external design team members
- Undertake non-intrusive surveys of existing installations
- Undertake main plant area spatial allowance exercises
- Ensure industry knowledge is kept up to date with new legislation, standards and regulations, product development and new technology
- Attend and contribute to design team and project meetings
- Collaborate and work effectively with all others affecting or affected by your work
- Carry out all personal management duties including weekly timesheets
- Comply with all security procedures and commercial in-confidence restrictions associated with work duties
Desirable:
- Study towards Chartership and maintain CPD requirements
- Quality checking/review of trainee staff work and equivalent grade engineers
- Liaise with lead and/or support engineers to ensure that discipline designs are completed to expected quality and programme
We encourage and prefer all applicants to apply directly, please no recruiters.
Associate Director - Mechanical, Glasgow
Job Description
Job Title: Associate Director – Mechanical
Directly reports to: Director
No of Direct Reports: 7
Location: Glasgow
Position Summary:
To lead and manage the mechanical engineers in one team of the Glasgow office of WW on a day-to-day basis, providing a quality service to our clients and expand the boundaries of our professional and commercial capabilities.
Assist in the development and growth of the business in the mechanical discipline. To assist in effectively expand the client base and industry sector coverage, leading to increased capability, sales, and profitability, in addition to achieve increased levels of repeat business.
The candidate will ideally have experience in healthcare design with knowledge of all relevant SHTM’s, SHPN, etc. Experience with Key Stage Assurance Reviews (KSAR) would be desirable.
Responsibilities and authority:
- Undertake mechanical design and consultancy work including systems design, production, specifications, and schedules; provide reports and advice to clients.
- Liaise with other design team members internal and external, represent the business at meetings.
- Liaise with and provide a focal point for clients and lead and/or support consultants to ensure that client interests are effectively fulfilled.
- Collaborate and work effectively with all others affecting or affected by your work.
- Adopt a responsible attitude to project management and actively undertake training of subordinate staff.
- Regularly review personal and subordinates forward programme workload. Develop and frequently review priority lists of programmed tasks.
- Check adequacy and accuracy of information and documentation produced by others.
- Ensure application and maintenance of all Quality System procedures.
- Perform all personal management duties including weekly recording of person-hour commitments to individual projects and reporting on a monthly basis particular project fee input information.
- Manage projects including organisation of trainee staff and project delivery to time and cost requirements.
- Comply with all security procedures and commercial in-confidence restrictions associated with work duties.
- Undertake all other duties as may be required to assist in the fulfilment of the primary objectives of the Directors.
- To contribute to ensuring operations are conducted in accordance with the relevant ISO and national legislation.
Education and Experience
- Preferably BEng (Hons) Degree in Building Services Engineering / Mechanical Engineering.
- Chartered or working towards chartership with IMECHE/CIBSE.
- Minimum engineering HNC/HND or equivalent qualification.
- Competent in AutoCAD and knowledge of Revit.
We encourage and prefer all applicants to apply directly, please no recruiters.
Intermediate Electrical Engineer, Birmingham
Job Description
Job Title: Intermediate Electrical Engineer
Directly reports to: Senior Engineer / Associate
No of Direct Reports: 0
Location: Birmingham
Position Summary:
To support the Senior / Associate Engineer(s) in producing robust design solutions including drawing and written deliverables with moderate supervision.
Responsibilities and authority:
- Produce Electrical Design drawings, calculations & reports, specifications and schedules.
- Contribute to BREEAM or equivalent legislation
- Witness test the proving and commissioning procedures of final installations
- Work to internal and external project programs effectively
- Work to company Quality Assurance management systems
- Support Senior/ Associate Engineers and Management
- Communicate effectively with internal and external design team member
- Undertake non-intrusive surveys of existing installations
- Undertake main plant area spatial allowance exercises
- Ensure industry knowledge is kept up to date with new legislation, standards and regulations, product development and new technology
- Attend and contribute to design team and project meetings
- Study towards chartership and maintain CPD requirements
- Liaise with lead and/or support engineers to ensure that discipline designs are completed to expected quality and programme
- Collaborate and work effectively with all others affecting or affected by your work
- Carry out all personal management duties including weekly timesheets
- Comply with all security procedures and commercial in-confidence restrictions associated with work duties
Education and Experience:
- Engineering Degree preferred.
- Minimum Engineering HNC/D or equivalent qualification
- Alternatively suitable Construction site based experience with a recognised completed electrical apprenticeship
Specific skills, knowledge, competencies and training
Essential:
- Self-motivated individual with good team ethic, looking to excel and aspire.
- Computer literate
- Good inter-personal skills
Desirable:
- Chartered or working towards Chartership
- Revit capability
- CAD skills
- CIBSE/IET Membership
We encourage and prefer all applicants to apply directly, please no recruiters.
Director/Associate Director, Sustainability and NZC Consultancy
Job Description
Job Title: Director/Associate Director, Sustainability and NZC Consultancy
Directly reports to: Head of Sustainability
No of Direct Reports: 4+
Location: UK, TBC
Position Summary:
To lead and manage the sustainability team on a day to day basis, providing a quality service to our clients and expand the boundaries of our professional and commercial capabilities. Assist in the development and growth of the business in the Sustainability discipline. To assist in effectively expand the client base and industry sector coverage, leading to increased capability, sales and profitability, in addition to achieve increased levels of repeat business.
Responsibilities and authority:
- Lead from the front, developing and communicating a clear vision for growth and quality delivery.
- Effectively lead the Sustainability team day to day, including ensuring effective forecasting, measuring of works in progress, reviewing aged debt, and driving office initiatives, as well as managing the Sustainability team resource with support from Associates.
- Maximise staff effectiveness and improve efficiency by enhancing client relationships, improving internal systems, developing and mentoring staff skills.
- Adopt a proactive attitude to talent acquisition, development, and retention.
- Take overall responsibility for the effective management and co-ordination of all resource to ensure exceptional project delivery, with the assistance of Associates.
- Work-winning activities and network growth to achieve forecasts and growth expectations.
- Implement effective bid management processes.
- Champion the application and maintenance of all Quality System procedures across the business unit.
- Ensure all Sustainability staff are focused on a quality delivery, to time and cost requirements.
- Lead the development of new business for Wallace Whittle Sustainability by building relationships with existing and new clients, and relevant intermediaries.
- Enhance the Wallace Whittle reputation by ensuring the effective and efficient delivery of a quality product and service.
- Undertake effective financial management and reporting, aligned with company systems and processes.
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest possible standards of Sustainability consultancy by maintaining a market leading knowledge of Sustainability, Energy and Net Zero Carbon accounting and delivery and associated new developments in the property development and building services industry.
- Undertake all other duties as may be required to assist in the fulfilment of the primary growth objectives of the business.
- Contribute to ensuring operations are conducted in accordance with the relevant ISO and national legislation.
- To ensure contract compliance with the Integrated Management System, by supporting the administration of the Internal Audit programme, corrective action and customer feedback registers.
Education and Experience:
- Preferably a Chartered Engineer/ and/or Qualified Architect with a minimum of Honours/Masters degree in an appropriate discipline.
- Relevant accreditations, e.g. LCC, WELL, BREEAM, LEED etc.
- Experience of leadership/delivery of LCA, Carbon Management, Circular Economy, NZC accounting etc.
- A minimum of 10 years’ industry experience, and preferably 5 years’ leadership experience.
- Experience of office and regional team management.
- A track record of work-winning and a relationship network in key sectors such as commercial, healthcare, public, residential etc.
Specific skills, knowledge, competencies and training
Essential:
- Confident engaging with senior design team personnel and clients, including Developers, Owners, Investors and Occupiers.
- Ability to lead from the front and by example.
- Excellent people skills to ensure staff engagement.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Focus on quality and continuous improvement.
- Excellent commercial acumen.
- Preferably, an existing network of customers and intermediaries in the UK.
We encourage and prefer all applicants to apply directly, please no recruiters.
Senior Sustainability & NZC Consultant
Job Description
Job Title: Senior Sustainability & NZC Consultant
Directly reports to: Sustainability Director
No of Direct Reports: 0
Location: UK Wide
Position Summary:
To manage and lead the delivery of sustainable building services solutions on individual projects; to be a proactive member of the sustainability team; to contribute to the resource allocation of sustainability requirements as project work demands; contribute to the development of the sustainability team with marketing and fee bids and keeping up to date with current Legislation and Planning Policies.
Responsibilities and authority:
- Delivery of Energy Strategies for Planning Applications.
- Lodgement of SAP calculations.
- Lodgement of non-domestic and domestic EPCs.
- Delivery of Sustainability Statements for Planning Applications.
- Knowledge of BREEAM / WELL.
- Knowledge of Home Quality Mark (HQM).
- Thermal modelling to Level 5 (preferred).
- Knowledge of façade performance and U-value calculations.
- Knowledge of Energy Auditing and Assessment.
- Knowledge of daylight calculations.
- Input into fee proposals.
Education and Experience:
- Educated to degree level in a related discipline.
Specific skills, knowledge, competencies and training
Essential:
- Knowledge of residential and non-residential energy modelling
- BREEAM Assessor.
- Presentation skills.
- Ensure that the Quality System procedures are adhered to.
- Responsible attitude and actively undertake training.
- Lead external workshops and design team meetings.
Desirable:
- Knowledge of Mechanical and Electrical design.
- Knowledge of RIBA stages of work.
- Chartership.
- Level 5 IES thermal modelling accreditation.
- BREEAM / WELL AP.
- Knowledge of BSRIA scope of works.
We encourage and prefer all applicants to apply directly, please no recruiters.
Sustainability & NZC Consultant
Job Description
Job Title: Sustainability & NZC Consultant
Directly reports to: Sustainability Director
No of Direct Reports: 0
Location: UK Wide
Position Summary:
To produce of sustainable building services solutions on individual projects. Be a proactive member of the sustainability team. Contribute to the development of the sustainability team assisting with research.
Responsibilities and authority:
- Carry out the responsibilities of a Sustainability Consultant including delivery of Energy Strategies for new buildings to achieve compliance with energy and carbon targets; Delivery of IES energy and thermal models and the output reporting as required, including EPC’s.
- Adopt a responsible attitude to and actively undertake training.
- Regularly review personal programme workload. Develop and frequently review priority lists of programmed tasks.
- Ensure application and maintenance of all Quality System procedures.
- Carry out all personal management duties including weekly recording of man-hour commitments to individual projects.
- Comply with all security procedures and commercial in-confidence restrictions associated with work duties.
- Contribute to the maintenance of the highest possible standards of design and reporting by developing a good working knowledge of proven building services systems and new developments in the Building Services industry.
- To contribute to ensuring operations are conducted in accordance with the relevant ISO and national legislation.
- To ensure contract compliance with the Integrated Management System, by supporting the administration of the Internal Audit programme, corrective action and customer feedback registers.
- To comply with strategy and actions which encourage and produce a safe working environment for all staff and which reduce the impact to the environment.
Education and Experience:
- Educated to degree level in a related discipline.
Specific skills, knowledge, competencies and training
Essential:
- Knowledge of BREEAM, HQM and WELL assessments.
- The ability to produce and review high quality reports to predefined deadlines.
- The successful candidate will be required to deliver reports for clients and so attention to detail, reliability, good organisational skills are paramount.
- Ability to confidently attend external design team meetings and workshops, delivering expertise and advice in relation to sustainable building services solutions.
- Happy to work in local office and travel to other offices when required.
Desirable:
- Experience in the building services industry an advantage.
- BREEAM and WELL assessor.
We encourage and prefer all applicants to apply directly, please no recruiters.
Senior Electrical Engineer, Glasgow
Job Description
Job Title: Senior Electrical Engineer, Glasgow
Directly reports to: Associate / Director
No of Direct Reports: 0
Location: Glasgow
Position Summary:
To support the management team in producing robust design solutions including drawing and written deliverables with minimal supervision.
Responsibilities and authority:
- Produce Electrical Design drawings, calculations (Amtech, IES, Relux, Dialux), reports, specifications and schedules
- Contribute to BREEAM or equivalent legislation
- Contribute to Building Regulations Part F/ Part L / Section 6 compliance modelling
- Witness test the proving and commissioning procedures of final installations
- Assist the development of trainee engineers
- Work to internal and external project programs effectively
- Work to company Quality Assurance management systems
- Support Senior/ Associate Engineers and Management
Education and Experience:
- Engineering degree preferred. Minimum Engineering HNC/D or equivalent qualification.
Specific skills, knowledge, competencies and training
Essential:
- Competent in AutoCad and knowledge of Revit
- Communicate effectively with internal and external design team members
- Undertake non-intrusive surveys of existing installations
- Undertake main plant area spatial allowance exercises
- Ensure industry knowledge is kept up to date with new legislation, standards and regulations, product development and new technology
- Attend and contribute to design team and project meetings
- Collaborate and work effectively with all others affecting or affected by your work
- Carry out all personal management duties
- Comply with all security procedures and commercial in-confidence restrictions associated with work duties
Desirable:
- Chartered or studying towards Chartership and maintain CPD requirements
- Quality checking/review of trainee staff work and equivalent grade engineers
- Liaise with lead and/or support engineers to ensure that discipline designs are completed to expected quality and programme
Degree Apprentice MEP Design Engineer, Edinburgh
Job Description
Job Title: Degree Apprentice MEP Design Engineer
Directly reports to: Senior Engineer / Director
No of Direct Reports: 0
Location: Edinburgh
Position Summary:
To take guidance from and assist Engineers and Senior Engineers by carrying out design related duties as directed.
Responsibilities and authority:
- Assisting a team of engineers and technicians with the production of engineering drawings
- Assist in production of 3D or 2D drawings using computer software
- Assist in preparation of simple engineering calculations
- Initial checking of own work
- Contributing to providing solutions to design problems
- Meeting agreed deadlines
- Attending meetings and/or site visits/surveys with Senior Engineer/Director
- Attending and participating in company activities, presentations and workshops
- Keeping your training log up to date and attending training/Continuous Professional Development where appropriate
- Supporting the administration of projects
- Ensuring application and maintenance of all Quality System procedures
Education and Experience:
- Minimum of 5 passes at National 5 / Standard Grade Credit Level / Intermediate 2 (Grade A-B) including English, Maths, Physics and a technology subject.
- Preferred Minimum of 4 Highers including English, Maths and a science subject (preferably Physics or Technological Studies)
- Alternatively having completed a recognised apprenticeship within the construction industry will be considered.
Specific skills, knowledge, competencies and training
Essential:
- All relevant training will be provided
- The desire to work in an engineering office environment
- Good numeracy, literacy and computing skills
- Ability to manage your own time and prioritise at busy times
- Awareness of the Building Services Engineering environment
- Ability to think in a methodical way
- Good communication skills within a team and externally
Desirable:
- Willingness to achieve professional qualification.
- An interest in using computers for design work, calculations, and testing designs
- A temperament that means you work well with other people
- Previous consulting engineer experience
- Knowledge and experience of Autocad or Revit software
- Knowledge of energy and thermal modelling software such as IES
Highlighting: Leisure
Leisure
Leisure spaces aren’t just places to relax and unwind—they’re the beating heart of communities. At Wallace Whittle, we understand the pivotal role these spaces play in shaping vibrant communities, and that’s why we’re dedicated to engineering leisure environments that prioritise comfort, enjoyment, and sustainability.
More than just physical structures, leisure spaces serve as vital hubs where people come together to socialise, exercise or refresh. They foster community cohesion and mental well-being. In today’s fast-paced world, these spaces can be a sanctuary—a place to escape the hustle and bustle of daily life and reconnect with oneself and others.
With a focus on innovation, sustainability, and community well-being, we’re engineering leisure spaces that stand the test of time, enriching lives and bringing people together. One of our recent projects, the University of St Andrews Sport Centre, achieved an Excellent BREEAM rating through Incorporating low carbon technologies along with passive low energy design.
Some recent leisure projects include:
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- Dundonald Links, Ayrshire
- Aberdeen FC Training Facility, Aberdeen
- Clydebank Leisure Centre, Clydebank
- Gleneagles Spa, Perthshire
- University of St Andrews Sport Centre, St Andrews
- Top Golf, Glasgow
And many more…
Get in touch with us today to discuss your next project or to learn more about our leisure expertise – [email protected]
Shaping Future Leaders in Construction
Developing in-house talent is key to future-proofing our operations.
Developing in-house talent is key to future-proofing our operations. Our Wallace Whittle Academy focuses on four unique levels across our people, each distinctly targeting different areas of development.
Level 1 – All staff members.Level 2 – Junior staff members.
Level 3 – Aspiring staff members.
Level 4 – Future generation staff members.
At Level 2, our Academy provides a consistent base level of training for our junior members, who are generally newer to the industry. We offer them support and guidance through their development, providing a chance to enhance their skills and grow their knowledge, preparing them for their journey with Wallace Whittle.
The Academy not only covers University or College fees but also provides a comprehensive curriculum, including specialized training in various aspects of the construction industry. With degree apprenticeships, part-time university courses leading to professional qualifications, and an array of specialist training, our Academy ensures that young staff at Wallace Whittle have the tools they need for success.
Our juniors are not only provided with the technical training required to deliver project information but also how to deal with delivery to provide a quality service in a timely manner. This includes meeting with and hearing from some of our Main Contractor and MEP Contractor partners, Architects, Civil & Structural Engineers, Project Managers and Quantity Surveyors to give a wider understanding of our industry.
Paul Hargreaves, Academy Manager commented “We have an excellent enrollment of level 2 Academy members from multiple disciplines, who are keen to learn and eager to develop, we feel it’s our duty to give them the opportunity they deserve, all they have to do is take it. We are already seeing great progress and feel that future projects will be in safe hands”.
As the industry undergoes changes and incorporates new technologies, our junior staff contribute a fresh perspective that plays a crucial role in futureproofing our methods and operations. We’re growing the next generation of Wallace Whittle engineers and staff, and we know the future of the company is in safe hands.
In line with expected growth across the business and planned offices in new locations we are forecasting to bring in a further 30 new junior staff over the coming three years with plans already in place to employ 10 degree apprentices throughout 2024 across the UK in Aberdeen, Belfast, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Warrington and London.
If you want to be part of this exciting growth, there’s never been a better time to join our team. Visit:
Apprenticeships at Wallace Whittle
Or get in touch to discuss your experience and let’s see how we can bring you on board, email [email protected]
