Senior Environmental Designer

We’re an innovative multidisciplinary firm of environmental design consultants, building services engineers and lighting designers focused on delivering high-quality, award-winning building services and sustainable design within the built environment sector.

Technical Ability

• Demonstrate specialist knowledge in at least 2 or more practices’ expertise
• Demonstrate a proven ability to provide consultancy for environmental design, sustainability benchmarking/implementation, building energy optimisation, daylight & shading design, sustainable systems, materials, waste and building physics
• Demonstrate an empathy with Atelier Ten’s approach
• Committed to the development of high-quality, high-performance, and sustainable buildings via the appropriate technical standards, costs and programme.
• Help to frame client briefs in terms of environmental and sustainable aspirations
• Deliver technical solutions in accordance with client brief
• Support and nurture junior/graduate members of the team
• Demonstrate an awareness and understanding of other disciplines

• Project management

• Liaise with client, architect and other members of the internal & external design team with clarity and confidence.
• Organise junior staff to achieve solutions within agreed time scales
• Maintain project overview: explain the status of relevant section of a project at any time
• Be aware of both our agreement and the contractual relationships on the project
• Mentor junior staff

• Marketing

• Appreciate and assist in the need to generate business
• Report any feedback or issues concerning the project
• Foster positive relationships with clients and other members of the design team
   

Skills

• Natural leader but can operate as part of a team
• Self motivated
• Ability to work with minimal supervision
• Ability to prioritise and to think strategically about the timing and delivery of project information
• Ability to structure the delivery of project information against evolving client brief in such a way as can be clearly explained to senior managers at the start of a project
• Strong writing skills for producing written reports
• Effective IT skills for producing relevant material, including knowledge and application of building physics packages
• Effective IT skills to develop new and bespoke assessment methods for project specific tasks and rendered in a manner that allows re-use

Qualified candidates ideally possess

• Bachelor’s or higher degree in a field related to building engineering, environmental building design, architectural engineering, building services engineering or building science
• Candidates who are Chartered or working towards Chartership are highly desired
• 5+ years’ professional experience in an engineering or sustainability consulting firm
• Proven track record of leading and executing dynamic thermal modelling and energy modelling analysis
• Experience in daylight modelling, computational fluid dynamic (CFD), parametric modelling and programming
• Proficiency in IES VE, Radiance and Microsoft Excel
• Skills with softwares such as Grasshopper, eQuest, EnergyPlus, AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign) and Rhino or general programming or data visualization skill
• Proven track record of successfully co-ordinating and delivering sustainable & environmental design input to projects within the public and private sector, with special focus on building energy performance
• Proven track record of engaging and negotiating with senior management and peers on projects
• Proven track record of engaging with and influencing peers outside of formal management relationships
• Practical knowledge of managing small project teams coupled with the understanding to select frameworks/tools that are appropriate to particular circumstances
• Strong writing skills for producing written reports
• Applicants should have demonstrated skills in computer and hand drafting, have proficiency in written and spoken English, and good verbal, inter-personal and writing skills are required
• Ability to work under limited supervision
• Ability to prioritise work loads
• Excellent analytical skills
• Strong ability to multitask