Associate level is where design careers usually stall. Not in this team.

Most associate mechanical engineer roles trade off scope against support. This one keeps both.

This is an Associate Mechanical Engineer position with a building services and engineering practice based in central London with the project diversity that location suggests. The day-to-day mix runs HVAC system design, plant strategy, compliance work across Part L and Part F, and the coordination needed to make a mechanical scheme deliverable inside a multi-disciplinary team. Tools you would expect: Revit, Hevacomp or IES, AutoCAD, Bluebeam for coordination.

You are operating at associate level, leading multi-disciplinary projects and managing engineers. You hold client relationships, shape the technical output of the team, and contribute to the commercial side of the practice as well as the design.

Associate is the level where many engineers discover their job has quietly become meetings about other people's work. The structure here resists that. You keep design involvement while leading the team, and the client relationships you hold are yours in practice rather than on an org chart. For an engineer who wants the next step without giving up the engineering, that distinction matters. The projects the practice is best known for are the ones that need that balance.

Salary: £75,000 to £90,000 depending on experience. Working pattern: on-site, full time, based in central London.

Send your CV to Alex Cole at Responsum for a 20-minute call this week.

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