Associate Director - CFD London, England
Job description
About Us
At HDR, we specialise in engineering, architecture, environmental and construction services. While we are most well-known for adding beauty and structure to communities through high-performance buildings and smart infrastructure, we provide much more than that. We create an unshakable foundation for progress because our multidisciplinary teams also include scientists, economists, builders, analysts and artists. That's why we believe diversity is our greatest strength. HDR is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer.
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We believe that the way we work can add meaning and value to the world. That ideas inspire positive change. That colouring outside the lines can illuminate fresh perspectives. And that small details yield important realizations. Above all, we believe that collaboration is the best way forward.
The job exists to provide sustainability consultancy and project level management in the HDR sustainability division. Working across the division and services to perform a support and delivery function. Assisting the leadership team in ensuring the services meet the needs of our Clients and are delivered successfully against internal requirements.
Effectively deliver and lead delivery of sustainability tasks with appropriate supervision: co-ordinating with internal divisions and project teams, other project disciplines and the client.
Support and advise internal and external project teams in targeting and achieving specific sustainability strategies and solutions. Proactively mentor and direct junior colleagues to ensure their professional development and task delivery is successful.
Responsibilities
At all times and / or with an appropriate member of the division’s leadership team or designated person:
- Understand the technical quality audit system. Undertake technical quality audits on your own work and of others as required.
- Professionally, proactively and successfully assist and support all aspects of your specialist division’s activities and services.
- Ensure successful assistance and support in the management and delivery of sustainability services to our clients in a timely, integrated, and technically proficient manner.
- Proactively participate in team development activities, transfer of knowledge, and mentor junior colleagues to support the achievement of objectives: individual; team; performance; and development.
- Maintain and nurture good working relationships with colleagues and project team members.
- Proactively seek input from within your division, or the project teams, to enable successful completion of your responsibilities.
- Maintain professional accreditation(s), awareness and understanding (e.g. CPDs) of relevant industry standards, regulations, legislation and policies appropriate to the services of the division.
- Understand the relationship and process of task delivery in relation to fee, resources and allocation of hours to ensure a timely delivery, meeting the objectives.
- Accurately maintain a wide range of manual and computerised records /management information, media and quality systems, providing guidance to junior colleagues to meet the required business standards.
- Handle a wide range of tasks, projects and queries, for all activities to meet service standards, and when assigned be the point of contact.
- Assist in gathering, monitoring and reporting of data and financial information related to project tasks to support the successful production of final deliverables, and management reporting of service performance.
- Effectively work independently or as part of a team to meet business requirements, as required both within the office, remote working environment and during site visits.
- Maintain appropriate level of courtesy and professionalism in dealing with other people, both internally and externally, with the ability to ask questions and exchange information using tact and diplomacy to achieve a satisfactory outcome.
- Assist in completion of administrative tasks relating to any part of the business as required, for example: timecards, marketing, HR and procurement.
- Carry out any other duties which fall within the broad spirit, scope and purpose of this job description and which are commensurate with the grade of the post.
- An Engineering / Energy / Physics / Mathematics / Building Services related Bachelor's degree, or equivalent in a relevant subject and desirable to have a CFD / Engineering / Physics / Mathematics / Energy related Master's degree, or equivalent in a relevant subject.
- Membership of and working towards Practitioner / Chartered (or equivalent) member of an appropriate industry association e.g. IMechE / IoP / IMA.
- Desirable to have formal training / certificate of completion from CFD vendor training courses, ideally in ANSYS software(s).
- Appropriate amount of people management experience, with the ability to demonstrate successful development of others.
- Successfully delivered and produced reports in four or more of the following CFD modelling;
- Data Centre cooling & optimisation,
- Indoor Temperature / Thermal Comfort Studies,
- Atria Thermal Studies,
- Auditoria thermal and airflow comfort,
- Industrial / process factory / clean room performance studies,
- Outdoor Thermal Comfort / UTCI studies,
- Natural Ventilation / Mixed Mode Ventilated Façade,
- Car Park Ventilation,
- Mass and Form studies,
- Outdoor Air Intake / Exhaust Separation studies.
- Desirable to have successful delivered and produced reports in any of the following;
- Pedestrian Comfort Study,
- Particulate Study,
- Tunnel Ventilation Study,
- Tunnel Fire/Smoke Study,
- Atmospheric Dispersion Study,
- Water Pollution Study,
- Rotating / Moving Mesh reliant studies,
- Snow and Snow Drift Studies,
- Rain modelling.
- Successful delivery in each of the following sectors; Data Centres, Office in addition to delivery in two or more of the following sectors; Education, Science and Technology, Hospitality, Industrial, Retail, Sports / Leisure.
- Desirable to have delivery in two of the following sectors; Museum, Pharma / biotech, Transport (Airports, Rail, Bus), Energy (oil/ gas, solar, hydroelectric, etc), Water, Media (TV/Radio/Film), Government (courts/police/prisons etc), Healthcare.
- Must be proactive in improving processes and driving projects.
- Knowledge and experience of independent reports / data to successfully review and complete a Modelling Study:
- HVAC Equipment Manufacturer Product Performance Datasheets.
- HVAC equipment controls specifications
- Air Tightness Test Reports
- Glazing Datasheets
- Luminaire Datasheets
- BMS / BEMS Controls
- Knowledge and ability to read Architectural, Civil/Structural, MEP and specialist drawings and specifications.
- Working with line manager develop thought leadership in relation to where CFD can also be applied in the built environment.
- Working in a consultancy service within a busy office environment.
- Experience of setting up and managing varied content across both internet and intranet platforms.
- Health & Safety responsibilities.
- Excellent knowledge of fluid mechanics and thermodynamics enabling understanding of the appropriate application of CFD modelling in relation to transient vs steady state, turbulence model complexity, radiation modelling, modelling of particulates / scalar transport amongst other considerations.
- Excellent verbal and written communication, presentation and team working skills.
- Personable self-starter with the ability to project a positive ‘can do’ professional attitude at all times.
- Ability to cope with frequent and varied tasks and prioritise workload according to the needs of the Service, maintaining good working relationships at all times.
- Developing skills in project management. Skilled in supervision.
- Competency in MS Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and SharePoint.
- Skilled in using Rhino or similar for geometry creation and simplification.
- Skilled in using Ansys Fluent and / or CFX software.
- Proficiency in at least one computer programming language such as C, C++, Python, and / or FORTRAN.
- Desirable to be competent in using at least one of the following; AutoCAD, Revit
- Desirable to be skilled in 6 SigmaRoom CFD software.
- Desirable to have skill in using proprietary meshing software such as hypermesh.
- Able to establish excellent rapport and good working relationships within the Sustainability team(s), company, project teams and with Clients.
- Good organisational ability and attention to detail.
- Ability to undertake Quality Assurance of modelling works and associated reports.
- Ability to work under pressure, handle a varied workload and keep to tight deadlines.
- Awareness / understanding of equal opportunities and other people’s behavioural, physical, social and welfare needs.
- Understanding of corporate equality standards and diversity issues and impact in immediate work and service area.
Why HDR
At HDR, we know work isn't only about who you work for; it's also about what you do and how you do it. Led by the strength of our values and a culture shaped by employee ownership, we network with each other, build on each other's contributions, and collaborate together to make great things possible. When you join HDR, we give you license to do the same. We help you take charge of your career, giving you multiple growth opportunities along the way.
