Senior Communications Engineer

Birmingham

Salary Details: £45.0 - £55.0 per hour + c£50 per hour (inside IR35)

Hays DT - Midlands
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Your new role
This opportunity requires candidates to be client-facing as well as being involved in the day-to-day design and management of projects. It is an exciting opportunity for an experienced communications engineer to further develop their career within a leading building design consultancy.
Hybrid 2 days per week in Birmingham.

What you'll need to succeed
- Experience of designing building systems including.
- Building Management Systems (BMS),
- Video Surveillance Systems (VSS),
- Access Control Systems (ACS)
- Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS),

Experience of designing Public Address Voice Alarm (PAVA) systems

Experience of designing structured cabling systems, including copper and fibre optic systems and the associated physical network infrastructure.

Good understanding of IP data networking, systems design, and the associated active and passive network infrastructure.

Some understanding of AV systems design. A background of working in engineering consultancy, including an understanding of RIBA/BSRIA design stages, working as part of a wider multi-disciplinary design team.

Experience of attending site and monitoring works, including familiarity with the installation and commissioning stages of the project for communications systems and their supporting ancillaries (such as containment, power).

Ability to manage packages of work, taking charge of their own deliverables and the deliverables of others to successfully meet project deadlines.

Excellent report writing ability, with experience of writing specifications of varying detail to align with the requirements of the RIBA stages.

Experience of working in a client-facing role, presenting their designs and leading discussions on behalf of the communications discipline.

Able to act on their own initiative, solving problems on projects and building relationships across the wider team and practice.

Experience of digital engineering technologies/Building Information Management (BIM), the ability to use key software packages such as Revit, Navisworks, AutoCAD would be
desirable.

This role required BPSS Security Clearance.

What you'll get in return
c£50 per hour (inside IR35)

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.

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Date Posted: 16 May 2025
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