Aaron Hazzard

Astute’s Nuclear Team is partnering with an international design consultancy who are looking to recruit a Senior Bridge Engineer to join their busy established team in the heart of London. The strategically important Senior Bridge Engineer role comes with a salary of up to £55,000, a competitive company pension, flexible working, the opportunity to work abroad and a market leading bonus scheme. If you’re a Bridge Engineer looking to step up, or a Senior Bridge Engineer looking for your next challenge, where you can work for a business that prides themselves on their high standards of delivery, then submit your CV to apply today.   Responsibilities and duties of the Senior Bridge Engineer role   Reporting to the Team Leader you will:  

• Lead and run design-based projects both in the UK and Internationally, which includes Canada and the Middle East
• Complete site visits as and when is needed
• Guide and mentor junior engineers during projects and through chartership, if needed
• Communicate with clients when required
• Aid senior management team with securing new business for the team

Professional qualifications   We are looking for someone with the following:  

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience as a Bridge Engineer
• Experience designing either Highway or Rail Bridges
• Chartered with the ICE or IStructE
• Exposure to large scale UK Infrastructure

Personal skills   The Senior Bridge Engineer role would suit someone who is:  

• An established leader, or keen to grow into the role
• A team player but also able to work independently to time constraints
• Adaptable to change
• Keen to learn other sectors as and when needed (possibility of secondment to other discipline sectors)

Salary and benefits of the Senior Structural Engineer role  

• Up to £55,000 dependant on experience
• Flexible, hybrid working
• Company matched pension
• Performance bonus, based on the business and individual performance
• Ability to work remotely from abroad

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Astute’s Nuclear Team is partnering with a growing Engineering Consultancy to recruit an MEP Compliance & Commissioning Engineer based in Milton Keynes.

This MEP Compliance & Commissioning Engineer role offers a salary of up to £55,000, alongside a strong benefits package and the opportunity to work within a well-established consultancy delivering complex engineering solutions.

If you’re a capable engineer with a solid understanding of mechanical design processes within Building Engineering Services and are looking to grow alongside a developing consultancy, then submit your CV to apply today.

Responsibilities and duties of the MEP Compliance & Commissioning Engineer role

Within the role you will:

• Lead and carry out design reviews, including final Stage 3/4 reviews and contractor submissions
• Monitor installation works on site, ensuring compliance with design specifications and standards
• Liaise with clients and project stakeholders, providing updates and technical support
• Produce site reports and manage ongoing snagging through to final completion
• Develop and oversee Commissioning & Testing programmes and attend key sessions
• Track project changes, manage scope creep, and contribute to lessons learned and continuous improvement processes

  Professional qualifications

We are looking for someone with the following:

• Strong foundations in Mechanical Engineering or Building Services Engineering
• Knowledge of key health and safety legislation and best practices
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, etc.)
• Experience using AutoCAD
• Awareness of current British and industry standards
• Up-to-date knowledge of IT systems, technical methodologies, and information sources

  Personal skills

The MEP Compliance & Commissioning Engineer role would suit someone who is:

• Detail-oriented with a strong focus on quality and compliance
• Organised and able to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Confident in both office and site-based environments
• A strong communicator with client-facing experience
• Proactive in identifying issues and implementing solutions
• Collaborative, with the ability to work effectively within a team

  Salary and benefits of the MEP Compliance & Commissioning Engineer role

• Salary up to £55,000
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Private healthcare
• Income protection
• Life cover
• Opportunity to work on innovative projects including automated warehousing and e-commerce distribution
• Clear career progression within a growing consultancy

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Astute’s Nuclear Team is partnering with a growing Engineering Consultancy to recruit a Senior Mechanical Engineer based in Milton Keynes.

This Senior Mechanical Engineer role offers a salary of up to £60,000, alongside a strong benefits package and the opportunity to work within a well-established consultancy delivering complex engineering solutions.

If you’re an experienced Mechanical Engineer with a strong background in Building Services design and are looking to step into a senior, client-facing position with real project ownership, then submit your CV to apply today.

  Responsibilities and duties of the Senior Mechanical Engineer role

Within the role you will:

• Lead and manage mechanical design projects from concept through to completion
• Act as a key client interface, building and maintaining strong working relationships
• Develop design briefs, project-specific criteria, and cost-effective engineering solutions
• Oversee tender processes, budgets, and commercial aspects of project delivery
• Coordinate with multidisciplinary teams while ensuring quality of design and installation
• Support and mentor junior engineers while contributing to continuous improvement and technical excellence

Professional qualifications

We are looking for someone with the following:

• Strong experience in mechanical design within the Building Services sector
• Proven ability to manage projects and lead design delivery
• Knowledge of current British Standards and industry regulations
• Proficiency in AutoCAD and Microsoft Office applications
• Ability to produce and review technical calculations, drawings, and specifications
• Strong understanding of multidisciplinary coordination within construction projects

Personal skills

The Senior Mechanical Engineer role would suit someone who is:

• A confident professional with strong client-facing experience
• Commercially aware with the ability to manage budgets and scope
• Highly organised and capable of handling multiple projects
• A clear communicator across technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Detail-focused with a commitment to quality delivery
• Proactive and comfortable working with autonomy

  Salary and benefits of the Senior Mechanical Engineer role

• Salary of £50,000–£60,000
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Private healthcare
• Income protection
• Life cover
• Opportunity to work across diverse and complex projects
• Clear progression within a growing consultancy

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Astute’s Nuclear team is partnering with a leading fabrication company to recruit a Graduate Quality Engineer based in Oxfordshire to support their growing project book.

This Graduate Quality Engineer role comes with a structured development pathway, funded training, mentoring from experienced engineers, and exposure to high-integrity projects across nuclear, fusion, defence, healthcare and energy sectors.

If you’re a graduate engineer with a curiosity for how things are made, why they fail, and how quality prevents that, and you’re looking to build a long-term career in a regulated fabrication environment, then submit your CV to apply today.

 

Responsibilities and duties of the Graduate Quality Engineer role

Within the role you will:

• Support the implementation and maintenance of quality procedures, inspection plans and project quality requirements

• Translate engineering drawings, specifications and standards into effective shop floor controls • Verify product conformity through inspection and documentation review across fabrication and welding processes • Identify, report and support investigation of non-conformances, contributing to root cause analysis and corrective actions • Maintain accurate quality documentation, including traceability records and certification packs • Assist with internal, customer and third-party audits • Collaborate with engineering and production teams to ensure compliance and resolve quality issues • Support continuous improvement initiatives to reduce defects and improve process control

 

Professional qualifications

We are looking for someone with the following:

• Degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Materials, Welding, Aerospace or related engineering discipline (or equivalent)

• Ability or willingness to read and interpret engineering drawings and specifications • Structured, evidence-based problem-solving approach • Strong communication skills, both written and verbal • High level of personal ownership and integrity • Eligibility to work in the UK and obtain security clearance if required  

Personal skills

The Graduate Quality Engineer role would suit someone who is:

• Curious about engineering and manufacturing processes

• Willing to spend time learning on the shop floor • Detail-oriented with a strong focus on quality and accuracy • A proactive problem-solver • Able to communicate effectively with a range of stakeholders • Eager to learn and develop within a structured graduate programme

Benefits of the Graduate Quality Engineer role

• Competitive salary

• Private healthcare • Generous pension scheme • Life assurance cover • 25 days annual leave plus bank holiday • Full graduate progression and mentoring scheme  

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Astute’s Nuclear team is partnering with a growing project management consultancy to recruit Quantity Surveyors at Assistant and Project levels across multiple UK locations.

This Quantity Surveyor role offers a competitive salary, clear progression opportunities, exposure to diverse sectors, and the chance to play a key role in a business with a strong and expanding project pipeline.

If you’re a Quantity Surveyor with experience across the project lifecycle and are looking to develop your career within a supportive and ambitious consultancy, then submit your CV to apply today.

Responsibilities and duties of the Quantity Surveyor role

Within the role you will:

• Support the delivery of cost management services across the full project lifecycle
• Prepare feasibility estimates, cost plans, and tender documentation
• Manage procurement processes and contract administration (JCT/NEC)
• Provide cost reporting, value engineering, and commercial advice to clients and design teams
• Support post-contract activities including valuations, variations and final accounts
• Mentor and support graduates, trainees and apprentices
• Primarily work on industrial and warehouse projects initially, with opportunities to diversify as the business grows

Professional qualifications

We are looking for someone with the following:

• Degree in Quantity Surveying or similar (preferred)
• 2+ years’ experience in a quantity surveying environment
• Experience delivering full lifecycle cost management services
• Background across sectors such as residential, commercial, industrial or similar preferred (no strict restriction)

Personal skills

The Quantity Surveyor role would suit someone who is:

• Ambitious and motivated to progress their career
• A strong team player with a collaborative mindset
• Keen to mentor and support junior team members
• Commercially aware with strong analytical skills
• Confident communicator with the ability to manage stakeholders
• Proactive and capable of working independently when required

Salary and benefits of the Project Manager role

• Competitive salary dependent on experience
• Bonus scheme reviewed annually, up to 10%
• Structured competency matrix to support career development and progression
• Matched 5% pension scheme
• Electric vehicle scheme
• Private healthcare (Vitality)
• Hybrid working: 1 day per week from home (site visits excluded)
• Group incentive days and team events

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Astute’s Nuclear Team is partnering with a leading building services consultancy to recruit a Senior Mechanical Engineer to join their multi-discipline team.

This Senior Mechanical Engineer role offers a salary of up to £65,000 plus a car allowance and an excellent benefits package.

If you have strong building services experience and enjoy working across surveys, reports, and technical consultancy, then submit your CV to apply today.

Responsibilities and duties of the Senior Mechanical Engineer role

Within this role, you will:

• Work in a senior role within a multi-discipline mechanical and electrical building services team, providing design, technical advice, and consultancy services

• Deliver professional consulting services including site surveys, meetings, feasibility studies, due diligence, technical reports, and specifications

• Manage multiple projects in a co-ordinated manner, ensuring delivery to agreed deadlines and cost requirements

• Work on your own initiative with minimal supervision on all technical aspects of mechanical discipline elements

• Take a mechanical discipline lead role on projects where required

• Coordinate effectively with internal and external design team members across all project stages

• Provide excellent client care and reporting throughout the full project lifecycle

• Assist in seeking opportunities for additional business and contribute to fee proposals and technical bids

  Professional qualifications

We are looking for someone with the following:

• Degree qualified in Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline

• Strong experience in building services engineering

• Good understanding of mechanical design principles (practical or theoretical) to support consultancy work

• Experience delivering surveys, reports, and technical advisory services

• Knowledge of sustainability standards such as BREEAM or LEED (desirable)

• Chartered Engineer status (or working towards) desirable but not essential

Personal skills

The Senior Mechanical Engineer role would suit someone who is:

• Mechanically biased with strong technical and analytical skills

• Comfortable working independently and managing multiple projects

• A strong communicator with excellent report writing ability

• Client-focused with a professional and proactive approach

• Organised with strong time management skills

• Ambitious, with an interest in developing further into design or broader engineering responsibilities

Salary and benefits

• Up to £65,000 salary

• £4,000 car allowance

• 4x salary life assurance

• Income protection

• Hybrid working

• 37.5-hour working week

• Full flexible benefits portal

 

Astute’s Nuclear Team is partnering with an international design consultancy who are looking to recruit a Senior Structural Engineer to join their busy established team in the heart of Birmingham, in a newly refurbished office. The strategically important Senior Structural Engineer role comes with a salary of up to £55,000, a competitive company pension, flexible working, the opportunity to work abroad and a market leading bonus scheme. If you’re an experienced, chartered Structural Engineer, that has a proven background working on complex building structures, which could be Nuclear, Train Stations or Hospitals etc, and you are looking for a change, hit apply with your most up to date CV today.   Responsibilities and duties of the Senior Structural Engineer role   Reporting to the Team Leader you will:  

• Perform design duties on national and international design schemes
• Oversee junior members of staff as and when is needed
• Complete site visits as and when is needed
• Keep track of the project and be able to report back to management as to how things are progressing
• Report into management of future business leads

  Professional qualifications   We are looking for someone with the following:  

• Ideally between 5-8 years’ experience as a Structural Engineer
• Experience designing complex structures, which could be nuclear, rail infrastructure, buildings  
• Chartership with the ICE or IStructE or other recognised organisation is required
• Design experience with both Reinforced Concrete and Steel

  Personal skills   The Senior Structural Engineer role would suit someone who is:  

• An established leader, or keen to grow into the role
• A team player but also able to work independently to time constraints
• Adaptable to change
• Keen to learn other sectors as and when needed (possibility of secondment to other discipline sectors)

  Salary and benefits of the Senior Structural Engineer role  

• Up to £55,000 dependant on experience
• Flexible, hybrid working
• Company matched pension
• Performance bonus, based on the business and individual performance
• Ability to work remotely from abroad

 INDNUC  

Astute’s Nuclear Team is partnering with a leading building services consultancy to recruit a Senior Electrical Engineer to join their multi-discipline team.

This Senior Electrical Engineer role offers a salary of up to £65,000 plus a car allowance and an excellent benefits package.

If you have strong building services experience and enjoy working across surveys, reports, and technical consultancy, then submit your CV to apply today.

Responsibilities and duties of the Senior Electrical Engineer role

Within this role, you will:

• Work in a senior role within a multi-discipline mechanical and electrical building services team, providing design, technical advice, and consultancy services

• Deliver professional consulting services including site surveys, meetings, feasibility studies, due diligence, technical reports, and specifications

• Manage multiple projects in a co-ordinated manner, ensuring delivery to agreed deadlines and cost requirements

• Work on your own initiative with minimal supervision on all technical aspects of electrical discipline elements

• Take a electrical discipline lead role on projects where required

• Coordinate effectively with internal and external design team members across all project stages

• Provide excellent client care and reporting throughout the full project lifecycle

• Assist in seeking opportunities for additional business and contribute to fee proposals and technical bids

  Professional qualifications

We are looking for someone with the following:

• Degree qualified in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline

• Strong experience in building services engineering

• Good understanding of electrical design principles (practical or theoretical) to support consultancy work

• Experience delivering surveys, reports, and technical advisory services

• Chartered Engineer status (or working towards) desirable but not essential

Personal skills

The Senior Electrical Engineer role would suit someone who is:

• Electrically biased with strong technical and analytical skills

• Comfortable working independently and managing multiple projects

• A strong communicator with excellent report writing ability

• Client-focused with a professional and proactive approach

• Organised with strong time management skills

• Ambitious, with an interest in developing further into design or broader engineering responsibilities

Salary and benefits

• Up to £65,000 salary

• £4,000 car allowance

• 4x salary life assurance

• Income protection

• Hybrid working

• 37.5-hour working week

• Full flexible benefits portal