Associate Director Life Sciences

Overview

We are looking to appoint an experienced Building Services Engineer at Associate or Associate Director level to support our Science & Technology sector in the UK, based from either London or Cambridge. The role will see you working closely with the UK Sector Leader and affiliated teams to enable Buro Happold’s growth ambition in the sector. Working alongside some of the world’s leading technical specialists and designers in the sector, this opportunity offers a significant platform for career growth and a meaningful role in one of our key global growth sectors.

Key Duties

• Performing the role of Project Director on Science & Technology projects, with a focus on the London and South East market.
• Acting as one of the key external figureheads for Buro Happold in the Science & Technology sector in the UK.
• Partner closely with the Business Development team and affiliated disciplines (e.g. Laboratory Consulting) to support work‑winning activities.
• Being a technical champion for the delivery of high quality, robust and excellent designs in the Science & Technology sector.
• Cultivating and developing key client relationships, effectively contributing to our revenue and work‑winning targets.
• Responding to strong local and international drivers for purposeful and sustainable building design – in particular, working with other senior leaders across the practice to drive our low carbon and net zero consultancy service offers in the sector.
• Supporting the London leadership team by playing an active role in retaining and growing an innovative, diverse, happy, thriving, and talented team.
• Maintaining and enhancing outstanding standards for project delivery, commercial management and technical excellence.
• Contributing to active collaboration with our UK and global building services teams.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in building services engineering, with proven track‑record in a multidisciplinary project leadership role.
• Experience on highly serviced projects, for example: laboratories, cleanrooms, research & development facilities, advanced manufacturing or industrial plants.
• Ideally you will have a network of clients and collaborators in the UK Science & Technology sector and knowledge of this market.
• Professionally registered with a relevant institution – e.g. CIBSE, IMechE, etc.

Benefits

• Hybrid working arrangements.
• Attractive salary and benefits package including life assurance, income protection and private medical cover.
• Car allowance (10% of basic salary).
• 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 – we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you and you will receive entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions.
• A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities.

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