Associate PDM - MEP

The role is to work within the practice on large multi-disciplinary projects in India. These projects will be projects of significant scale and value and will vary in nature including airports, commercial, residential, cultural, and sport. The position will be based in India but will involve travel within the country for site visits and meetings.

Your next role

- Project Delivery: Leading a project as a Project Leader. Working within an agreed budget, raising and/or resolving any budgetary concerns and ensuring profit targets are maintained.
- Drafting fee proposals, negotiating additional fees with the client, where appropriate.
- Autonomously representing Buro Happold and providing consultancy advice to clients, architects and collaborators.
- Attending and chairing meetings with architects, planners, contractors, government agencies etc. in a consultative capacity as part of a single and/or multi-disciplinary team.
- Be alert to commercial risks and opportunities and take immediate and necessary action to manage.
- Driving project performance, service delivery and technical and commercial outcomes and undertaking reviews, ensuring client delivery is above expectation.
- Ensure risks are proactively identified, assessed and managed to avoid adverse impacts on the project.
- Lead the design, analysis and consultancy on projects as guided by the PL/PD.
- Coach, mentor and support junior employees to ensure they can be as effective and successful as possible.
- Establish a strong internal and external network to contribute to work winning through bidding for projects and repeat work.
- Work in a multi-discipline environment interfacing with and delivering projects through the wider team (core disciplines, specialists, architects and client).
- Propose multiple creative solutions to challenges,



articulating and documenting the benefits/shortfalls of each to the client while taking into consideration other disciplines requirements.
- Produce reports, presentations, models and drawings as required.
- Understand and follow all of Buro Happold internal quality assurance procedures, ensuring they are rigorously applied across all projects; actively seek to improve processes and engage with the QA team to implement these.
- Ensure maintenance of ongoing learning and Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
- Continually look to enhance productivity through improved processes, procedures and systems.

Your skills and experience

- As an experienced Associate - PDM -MEP, we would expect that you will be able to demonstrate:

Required Skills:

- Embraces digital tools and computational engineering methods to improve design efficiency and quality
- Work winning through bidding for projects and repeat work
- Coaching and mentoring junior employees
- Lead the design, analysis and consultancy on projects
- Produces reports, presentations, models and drawings
- Internal quality assurance procedures
- Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
- Recruitment evaluation of candidates for technical and cultural fit
- Identifies project risks and opportunities and communicates them clearly

Desirable Skills:

- Supports financial success of projects through effective planning and resource management




- Proactively contributes to cost recovery efforts and helps improve project financial performance
- Assists in reporting on project and team performance to senior leadership
- Contributes to performance reviews and lessons learned across projects to support continuous improvement

Required Experience:

- Hands-on experience and track record of design delivery of minimum 2 Aviation projects in the region
- Experienced technical and project design delivery; track-record of exceptional delivery over a sustained period within the industry (typically 15+ years)
- Must have excellent command on business communication
- Preferably Chartered Engineer with international institutions
- Preferably have worked on international projects
- Must be proficient in a global matrix organisation

Desirable Experience:

- Multiple stints in international working environments
- Likely to have proven success across the region; capable of thinking outside of own patch to drive performance improvement for the benefit of the Region, and a broader group

Required Qualifications and Accreditations:

- Degree in Engineering in Mechanical / Electrical discipline
- Professional Accreditation of a recognised and relevant organisation
- Proven experience in a comparable role as a lead designer and/or project manager on large, complex, multi-discipline projects
- Strong facilitation and team leadership capability
- Effective communication capability
- Understanding of relevant policy and regulation
- Solid external network to support you in the role

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📌 Associate Engineer - PDM- MEP (Mumbai)
🏢 Buro Happold
📍 Mumbai