Elv Associate

The Team:
Our dedicated ELV Consultancy play a key role in digitally enabling the built environment to provide a technologically enhanced environment commensurate with our clients’ needs. We pride ourselves on being a market leader in our field, working globally with high profile clients in HQ offices, residential, hospitality, entertainment venues, and smart buildings. Our reputation has led to us advising on global technology benchmarking and technological certification of buildings.

We work across a range of market sectors including workspace / offices, mission critical / data centres and luxury hotels, with a number of our projects being recognized locally and globally for awards and recognition. As global leaders our work is of the highest standard, and this quality driven approach has seen a sharp uplift in workload cemented by a team driven by excellence and technical challenges.

Operating globally our Team is based in Dubai close to Dubai Marina, Central London right next to St Paul’s Cathedral, in the heart of Singapore near Orchard Central, and in Bengaluru close to the High Court of Karnataka.

The Role:
The role will be based in our Riyadh office which has a highly active ELV workload, liaising with the office leadership to tender and deliver work, collaborating and working in partnership with our Dubai and London teams to plan resourcing and delivery. You will be quality driven, understanding the importance of quality deliverables and leadership to maintain and grow our reputation.

Under the direction of the Director, the Associate will take responsibility for the operational delivery of ELV within projects, local workload and pipeline management for ELV, the management of project teams, the management of client relationships and the line management of staff. You will collaborate with our MEP teams, working work closely with colleagues of various disciplines to help manage the delivery of technically excellent and profitable projects.

The role will include managing engineers to deliver designs, track deliverables, provide Discipline Leadership and QA, monitor fee and spend for your deliverables, deliver against programme, and communicate with the wider Project / Client Team through Stakeholder engagement, presentations and Design Team Meetings. You will be expected to work closely within the design process and oversee design deliverables, managing junior and senior members of the Team.

You will use your expertise and determination to manage, motivate and inspire less experienced engineers through mentorship, coaching and ad hoc guidance. You will also support, and be supported by, Senior Management within the Team.

The Skills:
You will be a Chartered Engineer, ideally educated to degree level in Electronics Engineering, IT or Computer Sciences (MEng, BEng or BSc), you will have gained significant experience in an ELV Consultancy, ELV Design and / or Engineering role within ELV Design and Delivery.

Experience working in the Middle East is essential, you ideally will have delivered Middle East projects, stakeholder engagement and management experience, and have experienced site surveys and inspections of construction / installation works.

Your experience can include IT, Audio Visual, Electronic Security Systems and Smart Buildings, with the ability to demonstrate a level of knowledge and experience commensurate with an Associate level. WiredScore or SmartScore experience or qualifications is desirable but not essential.

In your most recent position, you will have consistently demonstrated your ability to manage small to medium-scale projects and managing Senior Engineers to deliver to, and exceed, client expectations.

You have proven ability in producing schematic diagrams, preparing specifications and project reports, carrying out site inspections and surveys, detail design development as well as lead project meetings. Through this experience, you can support your project teams to design and develop detailed and accurate designs through leadership and experience.

You will have experience tendering for work, producing proposals, fee resources and tender interviews, demonstrating how you transition from tender to project delivery.- The ability to take ownership for tasks, leading by example through technical leadership and excellence in delivery.
- Take responsibility for the technical control of projects with respect to ELV, following project management and QA procedures, whilst also ensuring that direct reports do so.
- Lead / participate in regular team meetings to ensure that direct reports and /or project team members are informed of key deliverables, deadlines, progress, issues and changes.
- Monitor direct reports’ progress and development throughout the year, providing regular, focused performance feedback, and ongoing support and guidance as required.
- Manage budgets, resourcing forecasts and workload to ensure deliverables are achieved within budget and programme cons