Lead Engineer

Overview

Lead Engineer role in Vertical Transportation (lifts and escalators) within AtkinsRéalis Building Design Practice, working on an international delivery team and managing a portfolio of projects from concept through detailed design.

What you'll do

• Work with a team of specialists in the field of lifts and escalators
• Manage your own projects
• Undertake design work from concept through to detailed design, ensuring technical excellence and outstanding client service
• Assist with internal and external Quality Assurance audits
• Participate in tendering activities by providing detailed specialist input
• Ensure an understanding of project briefs
• Specify and design people and goods transportation systems, including passenger, goods, firefighting, evacuation and accessibility lifts, escalators, travelators, moving walkways and hoist installations
• Carry out passenger and goods lift traffic analysis and flow design calculations on existing, new and temporary installations
• Prepare technical specifications
• Represent Atkins at meetings with clients, contractors and lift suppliers
• Understand the wider energy and holistic implications of lift and escalator technical design on multi-disciplinary projects
• Write reports and maintain records and archives to company standards
• Keep current with lift and escalator technologies and implement new and developing solutions
• Learn and support lift traffic analysis calculations
• Generate technical reports, specifications and lift and escalator manufacturer technical reviews
• Work with other discipline engineers (architectural, structural, PM and MEP)
• Attend meetings with clients, project teams, lift and escalator suppliers and specialist subcontractors
• Liaise with lift and escalator manufacturers to ensure latest products and sizing are current

What you'll need

• Proven customer relationship skills and experience, preferably in a consultancy environment
• Qualified engineer with a proven, demonstrable track record in your core discipline and a working knowledge of complementary disciplines
• Ability to adapt your approach with clients to explain complex technical concepts
• First-rate attention to detail and pride in the work you produce
• Ability to motivate and inspire confidence in peers and clients

Nice to have

• Preferably a Mechanical Engineering degree as a minimum qualification
• Knowledge of CAD, BIM, Rhino and other design applications would be advantageous

Details

• Based at the Bangalore, India or Cairo, Egypt office, flexible to suit the successful candidate
• Flexible and hybrid work solutions; remote work opportunities outside the country
• Employee type: Regular