SMART Building Lead - High Rise

Inviting bright minds
Do you want to push the boundaries of your profession and develop your excellence in an open, collaborative, and empowering culture? You will join a global company that has been growing successfully since its founding in 1945. We work to create a sustainable future, and our inspiring projects and innovative solutions aim to set the standard among our peers. Together, we lead and leave a positive impact on societies, companies, and people around the world.

You will join our UK High Rise & Complex Buildings Team
At Ramboll, we invite you to bring your expertise and innovation as you contribute to delivering highly complex SMART engineering solutions for buildings and cities to our clients. With unique opportunities and exceptional career experience, we empower talents like you to impact and deliver a future sustainable society. Operating in 35 countries, with over 300 offices, Ramboll offers you unrivalled opportunities to realise your full potential. We are always looking for people with the relentless energy to push themselves further and find new avenues and unique ways to reach our shared goals.

Your role is based in the UK, where you will work within our rapidly expanding global SMART Building team. In this fast-paced environment, you will be working with our international teams on ongoing projects in the UK and worldwide. You will be tasked with conceptualising and designing these future landmarks while ensuring that the building solutions that will stay viable and relevant over the asset's life. In this role, you will be directly client-facing in developing technology solutions to integrate the built environment and building technology. Creatively working with the multi-disciplinary design teams, you will conceptualise and carry out the technical design to deliver SMART building strategies and holistic solutions.

Your duties will entail design and project delivery of SMART design related services for our clients, including:

• Consulting directly with clients, advising on a broad range of technology that will enable them to meet their operational and efficiency goals, and leading the development of technical deliverables from brief through to specification, tender support, and soft landings.
• Play key role in the delivery of digital transformation and smart city/building projects across Ramboll’s projects.
• Offer innovative approaches to future city actions by developing Smart City Masterplans and processes, based on global trends but considering local contexts, demands and place-sourced opportunities.
• Work alongside various Ramboll engineering disciplines (including UK and internationally), to identify a portfolio of smart city solutions with potential to improve the quality of life and address dimensions such as Smart Economy, Smart Environment, Net Zero Agenda, Smart Living, Smart Mobility, Smart People and Smart Governance.
• Establish relationships with client personnel at appropriate levels to cultivate and manage business development opportunities and to be able to develop the appropriate Business Case and next steps to Project realisation.
• Working on a broad range of projects across various sectors to support other disciplines and lead the integrated design of technology including production of design deliverables.
• Being part of the growth within the Smart Building team to help win new projects in this area, develop our capabilities and grow the team.
• Line management and technical support of junior staff in the team, fostering a culture of innovation, foresight, and collegiality within the team.

Your starting point for constant growth
From the moment you join Ramboll, we will support your personal and professional development to grow. For this role, we believe your starting point is:

• Bachelor's degree in technology engineering discipline or a related field.
• Relevant experience in a technology consulting role or a relevant position with transferable skills. Proven experience of working as a Smart Buildings Consultant / Engineer. This includes design of ICT / Telecommunications / ELV / SMART Technology systems which can be applied to buildings and infrastructure across various building sectors (e.g. office, residential, retail, hotel, healthcare).
• Experience in the delivery of communications systems including Structured Cabling Systems, Networks (LAN, Wi-Fi), Building Management System, CCTV, Access Control and Intrusion Detection, Audio-Visual and Multi-media systems.
• Preparation of tender documents and technical specifications.
• Conduct technical feasibility study, life cycle study and planning for ICT systems, preparation of study reports, design reports and technical notes.
• Maintain close contact with key personnel within the providers of systems with respect to opportunity, delivery, and relationship development.
• Assisting senior management in identifying and developing opportunities and submission of proposals for new work opportunities.
• Familiarity with the wider industry markets, and trends in technology adoption.
• Proven ability to work in a customer facing/consulting environment.
• Experience delivering projects through all phases of the lifecycle.
• Ideally have an understanding in Sustainability and the relationship between Smart and Sustainable Cities.
• Knowledge of relevant technologies (4G/5G communications, IoT, big data and analytics) and their impact on society, business, and economy.
• Relevant qualifications, ideally accompanied by evidence of progress towards professional registration with a relevant body (e.g., BICSI RCDD, DCDC certification, CWNP, CCNA, or similar industry accreditations).

Core Behaviours

• Demonstrate drive, enthusiasm and commitment to projects while projecting a professional image.
• Excellent planning and organisation skills.
• Able to make decisions, act on own initiative and operate in a proactive manner with a positive attitude.
• Function confidently and competently within client environment and has a positive impact on clients’ perception of Ramboll. Effective client relationship management and communication skills, with the ability to develop solutions and proposals, to be able to engage with the customer to secure new business opportunities.
• Consistently achieves high-quality standards requiring limited direction and supervision.
• Self-motivated to identify tasks and more effective/efficient ways of delivering value to our clients.

Welcome to our Buildings division
As one of the top 10 building designers in the world, Ramboll works on more than 10,000 building projects each year. 4,000 experts across the world specialise in creating more innovative, sustainable, and liveable buildings. We place particular emphasis on our liveable buildings concept where we balance the cultural, social, and physical values of buildings, to improve the quality of life for building users.

Ramboll in the United Kingdom
Ramboll is ranked a Top 10 consultant in the UK and has 1,500 bright minds working across 17 offices to apply their passion to deliver innovative solutions across Buildings, Transport, Environment & Health, and Energy. We love seeing our talents develop and succeed and you will have opportunities to work on challenging and inspiring projects within an environment that is friendly, open, and supportive.

How to apply
Apply online. Attach your CV, cover letter and relevant documents showcasing why you are the right fit for the role, and when you are available to start. We look forward to receiving your application.

Deadline: 20.08.2024