Job Description

ASSOCIATE SMART BUILDING / CITY CONSULTANT - high rise

London – UK

Hybrid Working

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 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 Futures 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.
• Engage in client meetings / workshops and articulate complex technical content to reach a level of client understanding to complex subjects and arrive at decisions.
• Play key role in the delivery of digital transformation and smart city/building projects across Ramboll’s projects.
• Develop analysis, engage client teams and stakeholders, and deliver high-quality work products.
• Provide technical and expert support in the design and preparation of actions and inclusive urban development/future city processes.
• 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.
• Identify traditional urban infrastructure assets (both physical and social) and enhance this with elements of future technology urban infrastructure assets including datasets, networks, connected devices, and sensors, for future smart services and applications.
• Work alongside Ramboll various engineering disciplines, 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 to support other disciplines and lead the integrated design of technology including production of design deliverables.
• Being part of the growth within the Smart Future team to help win new projects in this area and develop our capabilities.
• Contributing to the development of design tools & processes.
• Mentoring and supporting 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.
• Ideally have an understanding and experience of working as a Smart Buildings Consultant / Engineer within the UK.
• Familiar with Smart Cities/Buildings requirements in a Master Planning and Urban Design context and processes, with national or regional government entities and/or with property and infrastructure developers.
• Familiarity with the wider UK 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.
• Strong analytical skills, creativity, and communication skills to encourage clients to execute their digital roadmap.
• Strong Presentation skills.
• Expertise in relevant technologies (4G/5G communications, IoT, big data and analytics) and their impact on society, business, and economy.
• Excellent computer and IT skills, including office suite.

Core Behaviours

• Demonstrate drive, enthusiasm and commitment to projects while projecting a professional image.
• Effective relationship management skills, with the ability to develop solutions and proposals and engage with the customer to new secure business opportunities.
• 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.
• Consistently achieves high quality standards and requires limited direction and supervision.
• Shows flexibility in tasks and location and deals well with ambiguity.
• Excellent communication skills.
• 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.