Lift Engineer

London, England, United Kingdom

12/18/2024

RPS are currently seeking an experienced Lift Engineer to join our progressive business and service our clients by providing consultancy services in North London.

The business is going from strength to strength, and this represents an exceptional opportunity to further your career through delivering quality engineering solutions and designs for projects which achieve and exceed our client’s expectations.

About The Design Business

RPS Design Division delivers projects across multiple, niche sectors from residential housing developments, logistics, retail, aviation, healthcare, education, advanced manufacturing, data centres, energy and more as we strive to achieve the right balance between form and function when faced with competing priorities around sustainability, materiality, cost and constructability. Digitalisation is at the core of our delivery model allowing our clients and their stakeholders to really experience our designs right from project concept stage and through drawing on expertise spanning decades, industries and disciplines, we assist clients to harmonise design drivers through inspired engineering, architecture and development services.

What You’ll Be Doing

This is an exciting role for an individual looking to progress their career within Lift Engineering within our industry leading team where we have an excellent reputation, offering a wealth of expertise in all sectors. We are offering a broad and varied role within a challenging and rewarding environment and you will be part of lift and escalator modernisation projects.

Duties Include

• Designing
• Reviewing of contractor’s proposals and drawings
• Reviewing and commenting on Risk Assessments and Method Statements
• Attend pre-start meetings.
• The management of projects – i.e. New Lift and Escalator Installation projects (new build or lift replacement)
• Account management and Lift Contract Management
• Accident Investigation
• Witness testing
• Health and Safety site audits, Lift Maintenance Audits, Lift dilapidation audits and EN81-80 audits
• Traffic analysis and calculations
• Specification
• FM, Maintenance and Compliance projects.
• Trouble shooting
• Occasional LOLER examinations
• Procurement exercises
• Regular reporting
  
  

Who We’re Looking For

To be successful in this role you will most likely have a NVQ3 or NVQ4 Lift Engineering. Previous experience within either Lift Engineering Consultancy or Project Management.

Additionally, You Will

• Be experienced in working on projects creating specifications that are required
• Have a good technical background on various manufacturers equipment
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Analytically experienced with strong attention to detail
• Have the ability to make decisions and be motivated
• Comfortable with autonomy with an appetite to drive innovation
• A team player
  
  

What’s in it for you?

We’re an accredited training provider – from entry level to master’s degree level professional qualifications in leadership & management and executive coaching & mentoring, we support learning and development for everyone.

A personal development plan and a transparent career pathway puts you in the driving seat of your career and you’ll be supported as far as you want to go.

We encourage and value different ideas, perspectives, and styles of thinking. We need a mix of experiences and skills to develop the most innovative ideas. We respect one another and recognise the potential and contribution of everyone. You’ll be joining a diverse community and a company that puts its people first and prioritises their wellbeing.

We understand the need to work flexibly, with agile offices and hybrid working offered as standard, we’re happy to talk about flexible working. This is a workplace that works for you.

A career here is far from ordinary. Here you’re not a number, you’re part of the solution.

What happens next?

If this opportunity suits your career journey, we’d love to hear from you. All applications will be considered, and we will try our best to respond to you within three working days.

If you’d like to discuss the role in more detail, please contact Parv Sandhu at RPS.

RPS, A Tetra Tech Company

Representing an exciting new chapter in our business, on 24 January 2023 RPS became a Tetra Tech company. With over 28,000 employees in more than 550 offices in more than 120 countries on seven continents, Tetra Tech is a leading, global provider of consulting and engineering services. As a Tetra Tech company, RPS is proud to offer our people market-leading development and project opportunities, helping to solve some of the world’s most complex problems.

We know we develop better solutions together. That’s why we’re committed to ensuring Fairness, Inclusivity, and Respect in all that we do. For us to live our purpose of creating shared value and to deliver on our promise to ‘make complex easy’ – for us and for our clients, we continue to build a culture where different working styles and experiences can thrive to achieve exceptional results.

We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and work in partnership with Inclusive Employers. We’re also proud to support reservists and their families, having signed the Armed Forces Covenant. An inclusive culture enables our people to do things differently, working in ways to suit them while delivering their best for RPS. That’s why we’ve created working groups as true inclusion is a journey that involves learning, collaboration, and engagement.

Please let us know if you require any adjustments during the interview process, we can then make reasonable changes to support you in performing to the best of your ability.

Recruitment Agencies We have a Preferred Supplier List of trusted partners to assist us when required and do not acknowledge any speculative CVs or unsolicited candidate introductions from agencies not on this list. Please refer to the careers page on our website if you require any further information.