Senior Facade Engineer

We are seeking a Senior Facade Engineer to join our Design & Engineering team at Bovis Construction (Europe) Limited. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in driving effective project solutions, ensuring compliance, and managing technical risks. The Senior Façade Engineer will act as a specialist technical adviser on building envelope and façade matters, supporting projects from preconstruction and design through procurement, construction, testing, handover and, where required, post-completion investigation. The role will provide informed technical leadership and independent challenge to project teams, designers, specialist subcontractors and suppliers to help ensure façade solutions are safe, compliant, coordinated, buildable, durable and capable of achieving the required performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide specialist façade engineering advice to project, design, commercial, procurement and construction teams.
• Review façade design proposals, calculations, specifications, drawings and technical submissions and provide appropriate technical challenge.
• Assess the suitability of proposed façade systems, materials and interfaces against project performance requirements.
• Identify significant façade technical risks and support project teams in developing appropriate mitigation strategies.
• Provide façade engineering input during tender and preconstruction stages.
• Review Employer's Requirements, specifications, architectural and engineering information, and proposed façade strategies.
• Identify key façade risks, opportunities, constraints and technical qualifications.
• Assist in establishing appropriate façade performance requirements and scopes of work.
• Support the technical assessment of façade contractors, suppliers and proposed systems.
• Support project teams in coordinating façade design with architecture, structure, fire, building services, waterproofing and internal finishes.
• Support resolution of complex technical issues through evidence-based engineering judgement.
• Support project teams in understanding and demonstrating compliance with applicable Building Regulations, standards and project requirements relevant to façades.
• Contribute specialist knowledge to projects subject to the Building Safety Act and Building Safety Regulator processes where applicable.
• Promote appropriate design verification and maintenance of clear technical records and decision trails.
• Help ensure that material and system changes are properly assessed for their impact upon façade performance and compliance.
• Recognise the limits of personal competence and seek additional specialist advice where required.
• Provide technical support to site teams during façade testing, manufacture and installation.
• Support the development of inspection and test plans and project-specific quality controls.
• Review significant installation defects and non-conformances and advise on technically appropriate corrective actions.
• Advise on façade mock-ups, sampling, benchmarking and testing strategies.
• Witness or review relevant laboratory and site testing where appropriate including assisting in interpreting test failures and developing technically justified remedial proposals.
• Capture and communicate façade lessons learned across projects.
• Maintain awareness of developments in façade technology, regulation, standards and industry guidance.
• Coach and provide technical guidance to less experienced engineers and project staff.
• Maintain appropriate Continuing Professional Development.

Credentials

• Degree, higher education qualification or demonstrably equivalent competence in Façade Engineering, Structural Engineering, Civil Engineering, Architectural Engineering, Building Engineering, Architecture or another relevant built-environment discipline.

Essential Skills, Knowledge, Experience & Behaviours

Skills

• Ability to critically review complex façade designs and identify technical risks, omissions and interface issue to reach clear, evidence-based conclusions.

• Ability to communicate complex façade engineering issues clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Ability to prioritise technical risks across multiple projects.

• Ability to provide robust technical challenge while maintaining constructive working relationships.

• Ability to recognise the limits of own competence and identify when additional specialist expertise is required.

Knowledge

• Strong working knowledge appropriate to the role of:

• Curtain walling, windows, rainscreen cladding, masonry, precast concrete, stone and other common façade systems.

• Building-envelope and façade engineering principles.

• Relevant UK Building Regulations, British Standards, Eurocodes and industry guidance.

• Façade fire-safety principles and relevant regulatory requirements associated with external wall construction, including cavity barriers and fire stopping.

• Laboratory and site testing for building envelopes.

• Design coordination and management of critical façade interfaces.

Experience

• Significant professional experience in façade/building-envelope engineering.

• Practical experience of façade manufacture, installation, inspection and/or testing.

• Experience assessing façade defects, non-conformances or technical problems and developing appropriate solutions.

• Experience working collaboratively within multidisciplinary design and construction teams.

Behaviours

• Safety-led

  Places building and occupant safety ahead of programme, cost or convenience when making technical recommendations.

• Professionally accountable

  Takes ownership of advice and decisions and maintains an appropriate evidence trail.

• Constructively challenging

  Prepared to question proposals and escalate significant technical concerns, irrespective of project pressure.

• Collaborative

  Works constructively with project teams, designers and specialist contractors rather than operating as an isolated technical reviewer.

• Pragmatic

  Understands that solutions must be safe and compliant but also buildable, procurable and appropriate to the project.

• Curious

  Actively investigates the underlying cause of technical issues rather than treating symptoms.

• Integrity

  Provides impartial technical advice and does not allow commercial or programme pressure to compromise professional judgement.

• Self-aware

  Recognises personal limits of competence and seeks additional expertise where appropriate.

We will provide:

• Car allowance

• Flexible and hybrid work options

• Up to 10% employer pension contribution

• Private medical health benefit

• Life assurance

• 25 days annual leave with the option to buy or sell additional days

• 4 days wellbeing leave in addition to annual leave

• Health and wellbeing support and initiatives

• 24/7 confidential Employee Assistance Programme including direct access to Talking Therapies and Coaching services

• Discounted gym membership to over 2,500 gym’s nation wide

• Industry leading parental leave

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Bovis is committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer of choice by engaging, enabling and empowering our people. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. Inclusion sets us all up for success and we particularly encourage applications from currently under-represented groups in our industry including those who self-identify as women, black, Asian, minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/ or disabled.

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• Develop winning strategies and methodologies to drive effective project solutions.
• Identify and mitigate risks, and communicate opportunities during the bid and conversion stages.
• Support PCSA teams in facade design and specialist supply chain procurement.
• Optimize facade designs in collaboration with design consultants and the supply chain.
• Monitor project performance, compliance, and risks, and provide timely recommendations.
• Review tender returns and assist project teams in procurement decisions.
• Foster strong relationships with key stakeholders to facilitate decision-making and influence outcomes.

• Extensive experience in facade engineering, with a proven track record of successful project deliveries.
• In-depth knowledge of facade systems, products, materials, and supply chains.
• Familiarity with relevant regulations, standards, and guidance for facades.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills, with the ability to articulate technical risks.
• Understanding of facade design and procurement processes, as well as common construction contracts.
• Strong interpersonal skills to build and maintain relationships with stakeholders.
• Ability to work collaboratively as part of a bid team and project teams.
• Analytical mindset with a focus on problem-solving and risk management.
• Proficiency in relevant software and tools for facade engineering.
• Continuous learning mindset, staying updated with industry trends and advancements.