Senior Acoustic Consultant

Description:

Your day to day responsibilities will be extremely varied and diverse, however your primary focus areas will include the following:

Project Delivery
 

• Work within agreed budgets and profit targets, raising and/or resolving any concerns that arise.
• As part of the project team, provide input on design competitions and bids.
• Draft fee proposals for projects and additional work.
• Autonomously represent Buro Happold to clients, architects and collaborators.
• Ensure all work completed is reviewed appropriately. Review the work of others as assigned to you.
• Understanding the Client acoustic requirements and producing a Client brief.
  
   

Leadership
 

• Develop an internal and external profile through networking, in order to participate in bidding and work winning of projects.
• Deliver excellent performance in all areas of the role.
• Lead the design, analysis and consultancy on a wide variety of projects as guided by the relevant project leader.
• Mentor and support more junior team members, helping them develop their careers.
  
   

Collaboration
 

• Interface with other areas of the firm through project work.
• Work as part of a single or multi-disciplinary team attending and chairing meetings with architects, planners, contractors, government agencies etc. in an advisory capacity.
  
   

Technical competence
 

• Propose multiple solutions to challenges, being able to articulate the benefits and shortfalls of each to the client, taking into consideration other disciplines requirements within these solutions.
• Produce insightful reports, presentations, models and drawings as requested by the client to an excellent technical standard, high level of accuracy and in a timely manner.
• Be familiar and comply with all Buro Happold’s internal quality assurance procedures.
• Ensure maintenance of ongoing learning and Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
• Maintain market knowledge of industry-leading technologies
• Ongoing development of our design tools, including Revit, Rhino, Grasshopper and Dynamo
  
   

Your skills and experience:
 

• Degree level education
• Working toward Professional Accreditation of a recognised and relevant organisation
• Proven experience in a comparable role
• Strong team player capability, with potential to line manage more junior team members
• Effective communication capability
• Understanding of relevant policy and regulation