Graduate Public Health Engineer London 2024

Start date

• September 2024 

Our Building Services teams at Cundall have a mission: they want to play a key role in making buildings more energy and water efficient, cost effective to run and, ultimately, more sustainable. To do this, we’re looking for graduates who have a desire and enthusiasm to make a difference: in our homes, our offices, our projects, our industry and our community.

Working across a variety of industry sectors, our Building Services engineers are a source of world leading expertise; producing innovative and award-winning sustainable engineering solutions throughout the lifecycle of any building project.

With offices in the UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Australia, we offer a pro-active and collaborative approach to skill development, professional excellence and knowledge sharing.

Our Building Services teams have accomplished amazing projects like an innovative office for Google and an energy efficient data centre for Facebook. As a graduate in the team, you could play a key part in our next big project.

The role you'll pplay

In this Graduate Public Health Engineer role, you’ll join a team who specialise in the design of some of the most exciting construction projects in the UK and worldwide.

Working closely with colleagues across our multi-disciplinary practice, you’ll provide specialist consultancy input on projects across a wide range of sectors including education, healthcare, workplace, retail and critical systems (data centres).

Under the guidance of our team of experienced engineers, we’ll equip you to undertake detailed public health building services engineering design and analysis, define and translate clients’ needs into designs for buildings, facilities and services (wholesome water, domestic hot water, reclaimed sustainable water systems, drainage building infrastructure, gaseous systems, fire suppression systems and more) - all with sustainability at the forefront of the design. 

Public Health Engineers are responsible for the provision of safe water supplies for drinking and sanitary use; as well as the collection, disposal, treatment and recycling of wastewater. 

Water is a precious resource and needs to be managed to reduce its use within buildings and controlled when disposed of in an environmentally responsible manner. Public Health Engineers deal with all types of sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS, black, grey and stormwater each with their own specific requirements). By sympathetically following the natural flow of the water cycle they can minimise the impact of buildings on the environment. Demands placed by a building on treated mains water can be minimised by designing for water efficiency. A building's water use can be augmented from alternative sources such as rainwater harvesting and greywater re-use. The Public Health Engineer’s philosophy is to minimise man's impact on the water environment.

You’ll have the opportunity over time to assume greater levels of responsibility and autonomy as your professional skills develop and with accredited professional development programmes from CIBSE and IMechE you’ll be fully supported towards achieving chartership.

The skills you'll bring

• On target to achieve at least a 2:2 degree
• Desirable if accredited with or on course achieve a MEng degree level (or equivalent) in Mechanical, Environmental or Building Services Engineering,
• You’re passionate about innovative and sustainable engineering for the built environment. Ideally, you’ll have furthered this interest by undertaking some form of relevant work experience or placement/internship.
• Digital engineering is a big focus at Cundall, so ideally, you’ll have an understanding of Parametric Modelling Techniques (Grasshopper or Dynamo), or at least one modern programming language (e.g. Python, C#, VB)
• Collaborative in nature, you’ll be able to empathise with your clients’ needs and utilise excellent communication skills, both in writing and verbally, with internal and external stakeholders. You’re used to using your initiative to overcome challenges and have a positive, can-do attitude

What’s in it for you?

We offer a competitive starting salary which grows as you develop, as well as many training and development opportunities to make sure you keep progressing.

Aside from this, those who successfully join our graduate scheme also enjoy:

• A one-off joining bonus of £1,500, payable during your first month of employment
• A £2,000 bonus on gaining chartered status with a relevant professional body
• 23 days' holiday per annum (plus statutory holidays)
• A flexible benefits package which enables you to select additional benefits to suit your personal circumstances