Hilson Moran are interdisciplinary consultants, engineers and advisors, applying progressive design thinking to shape the environments we live in. We provide a full range of engineering services, exciting innovation and design solutions on a full range of projects from across our network of offices in the UK.
Housed in a building of our own design, Neo, and engineered to meet WELL™ Standards our Manchester office is testament to the quality of our work and the many repeat projects we carry out for loyal clients across Manchester and the North, including Sky, IBM and Bruntwood.
We are currently seeking an Principal Utilities Infrastructure Consultant to join our Infrastructure & Environment Team. Our existing team are a market leading provider of utilities and energy infrastructure on some of the UK’s largest and most visible construction/development projects. The role may also provide ad-hoc support to our water and transport planning teams.
Our ‘Infrastructure Services’ team provides technical, commercial and procurement advice to large and often prestigious commercial, residential and mixed-use developers. We tend to support large regeneration and masterplanning projects from early infrastructure planning through to installation and commissioning of multi-utility, foul/surface water/SuDs and mobility services, and uniquely we manage the alteration of existing utility networks in very constrained (often below ground) spaces to de-risk some of the UK’s most prestigious development projects.
We provide expertise in regard water, wastewater (and SuDS), district heating/cooling, electricity, telecommunication networks and mobility-based solutions.
Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Together with our Associate Directors and Directors meet with commercial and residential developers and/or landowners, and their supply chain including Architects, Planning Consultants and Project Managers, to understand development needs, both technical and commercial drivers, and develop proposals that meet their needs.
- Once appointed by a client then consult with the wider design team, but particularly utility undertakers and other utilities, energy, and data service providers to understand opportunities, risks and costs associated with our client’s development proposals and advise of these risks, costs and opportunities via meetings, sketches, presentations and reports.
- Maintain and enhance both client and design team relationships through regular reporting and communication. Develop utility designs directly and via third parties and coordinate (using our in-house Engineering and CAD Technicians as required), often to support a client’s groundworks tender, whereby tender and contract drawings will be developed.
- Procure the services of specialist utility and multi-utility contractors and undertakers by developing scopes and specifications as part of a wider Employers Requirement document using drawings and other documents as required. This might be new connections related work, early utility enabling works, or likely both.
- Manage the delivery of critical utility enabling and new connection works often alongside third-party Project Management and Cost Consultancy Practises.
- Report back to our client on progress and issue any relevant instructions to contractors.
- Lead utilities progress meetings as required to progress the works.
- Review as-constructed data and closeout or reconcile final costs.
- Using timesheets understand your impact on project costs and profitability.
- Take ownership of the delivery of all the above through an intimate understanding of client needs and an understanding of project costs and profitability.
- Occasionally you may be required to manage interdisciplinary projects including MEP, water resources and other related built environment disciplines.
- Mentor and develop more junior members of the team. Delegate simpler projects directly to junior members of staff and retain a watching brief so that they too begin to intimately understand client needs and expectations.
