Civic
Intermediate Mechanical Engineer

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Civic is a team of system thinkers in the built environment, creating positive impact for people, places and the planet.
We want our work to have a positive impact on the environment — helping people to live healthier, happier lives while respecting natural limits. We build without destroying, explore without exploiting, and seek to reuse rather than just consume. Above all, we listen, learn, and aim to create a lasting legacy.
Thriving together, today we have a team of over 200 members working across the UK, all united by our creative belief, bringing art and science together to solve problems. Our award-winning practice has studios in Manchester, London, Leeds, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dublin.
About the Role
As an Intermediate/Design Engineer, you will take an active role in the delivery of a variety of building projects across the UK, across a range of sectors including residential, education, commercial development, leisure, net zero/low carbon and regeneration. You will have the opportunity to work alongside industry experts with a variety of engineering and consultancy skills to provide integrated coordinated designs with high profile private and public-sector clients and collaborators within an award-winning practice.
Day-to-day task and expectations
- Provide engineering discipline design, analysis, calculation and drawing input
- From time to time supervising apprentices and graduates
- Identifying problems and opportunities, assessing and resolving problems using qualitative and quantitative measures
- Conduct feasibility studies, cost estimates, and risk assessments for proposed designs.
- Collaborate with project stakeholders, including architects, structural engineers, and contractors, to integrate mechanical systems seamlessly
- Inputting into the production of high-quality written reports on a range of projects
- Preparation, presentation of technical data, drawings and tenders under the supervision of others
- Use of industry standard analysis and calculation software
- Being part of internal reviews
- Self-checking and checking others’ work
- Compliance with the duties of Designer under the CDM Regulations 2015
- Compliance with the practice QMS, including self-checking
- Communicate clearly and openly internally and externally with peers and clients
- Manage your own project timelines, budgets, and resources effectively
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This is an opportunity to join a growing Building Services MEP team and contribute to the delivery of well-coordinated, sustainable and technically robust projects. We are looking for someone who is proactive, organised and keen to develop their Mechanical engineering capability within a collaborative engineering environment.
Is this you?
You’ll be an experienced mechanical engineer with a good understanding of Building Services MEP and a keen eye for technical detail. Collaborative, proactive and organised, you’ll enjoy working closely with engineers and wider design teams to produce accurate, coordinated and well-presented designs and models.
With a helpful and positive approach, you’ll thrive within an innovative practice that is committed to sustainable design and making a positive impact on the built environment.
Our commitment to DEI
Civic is made up of brilliant people. Each of us is unique, whether in terms of our background, personal characteristics, experience, skills or motivations. And we value our people for the differences they bring to the table. These differences - this diversity - is powerful.
Nurturing an inclusive culture helps each of us to benefit from a wider range of these different perspectives, experiences and skills. We believe that this creates a happier, more productive working environment for us all.
We encourage applications from individuals who bring diverse perspectives and are passionate about contributing to an equitable and respectful work environment.


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Benefits
- A fair and competitive salary, taking into consideration market rates and your experience level
- Flexibility. Our core hours are between 10:30am-4:30pm, with an early Friday finish!
- Hybrid working. Most of our full-time employees come into the studio 3 days a week
- Generous holidays! 26 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays (pro-rata for part time employees). An extra day when you reach 3 years’ service, and another at 5 years!
- Holiday options. Buy or sell a week of holiday each year, or create a sabbatical pot by banking a week’s holiday for 3 years to take a month off on year 4!
- Enhanced Family Leave. Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, shared parental and neonatal care leave pay, plus 2 days paid dependency leave and 1 weeks paid carers leave
- Wellbeing support. Mental health first aider support, mindfulness sessions and access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Health benefits. Life Assurance, Health Care Cash Plan, Gym discounts and free Eye tests
- Sick Pay. 4 weeks enhanced sick leave, plus 2 mental wellness days
- DEI network. An established Equity, Diversity and Inclusion network with regular team activities, plus 2 days of paid volunteering leave each year to support causes close to your heart
- Professional Development. Paid professional memberships, 2 days paid study leave (+ extra for exams), Chartership Preparation Courses, Chartership completion bonus, in-house ‘Civic Academy’ training, Management Development Programmes and a Mentorship programme for all employees
- Financial benefits. Access to our HMRC friendly Workplace Nursery scheme, plus enrolment to our workplace pension scheme
- Sustainable travel. Season Ticket Loans & National Rail Cards, plus two salary sacrifice cycle to work schemes and cycling facilities at all our studios (showers, bike racks etc)
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