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Principal Building Services Engineer

Location: Cambridge
Location Cambridge
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This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

What’s the opportunity?

We are looking for an experienced Principal Building Services Engineer to join Ridge’s growing Building Services Engineering team in our Cambridge office.

As a Principal Engineer, you will play a key role in leading the delivery of complex building services projects, providing technical direction, and mentoring engineers across the team. You will work closely with clients, architects, and other design disciplines, helping to shape innovative, high-quality, and sustainable engineering solutions.

Ridge works across a wide variety of sectors including education, commercial, life sciences, residential, industrial, leisure, and mixed-use developments. This role offers the opportunity to be involved from early concept stages through to completion on some truly diverse and challenging projects.

About the role

Building services engineers design, install and maintain the systems that allow buildings to function effectively and efficiently. These systems include heating, cooling, ventilation, lighting, power, public health, life safety, sustainability, and energy systems.

As a Principal Building Services Engineer, you will take responsibility for the technical leadership of projects, support business development activity, and contribute to the ongoing growth and development of the Cambridge engineering team.

Key responsibilities

  • Providing technical leadership across multiple building services projects
  • Leading mechanical and building services design from feasibility through to completion
  • Producing and reviewing high-quality engineering reports, drawings, and specifications in line with RIBA stages
  • Managing project delivery, resources, and programme to ensure successful outcomes
  • Mentoring, supporting, and developing junior and senior engineers within the team
  • Liaising closely with clients, architects, structural engineers, contractors, and other project stakeholders
  • Attending and leading design team meetings, client meetings, and technical workshops
  • Undertaking and overseeing design calculations using industry-standard software
  • Using CAD and BIM tools (including Revit and IES) to deliver coordinated designs
  • Providing construction-stage support, including technical reviews and site inspections
  • Contributing to bids, work-winning, and client relationship development
  • Ensuring compliance with current legislation, standards, and health & safety requirements

What you’ll need to succeed

  • A degree (or equivalent) in Building Services Engineering or a related engineering discipline
  • Significant experience in a senior or principal-level building services engineering role
  • Chartered status (CEng) or working towards chartership with a relevant institution (e.g. CIBSE, IMechE)
  • Strong technical design capability across a range of building services systems
  • Proven experience leading projects and managing design teams
  • Excellent communication skills and the confidence to engage directly with clients
  • A collaborative approach and the ability to work effectively within multi-disciplinary teams
  • A passion for quality, sustainability, and innovative engineering solutions

We are Ridge, a Built Environment Consultancy. We help our clients transform the quality and sustainability of the built environment.

Our 1,400+ people bring a vast range of skills, delivering a professional mindset, gritty discipline and a genuine passion to every one of the thousands of projects they undertake each year. They’re the foundation of our success - they drive our vision, embody our values and separate us from the competition.

Come and join us if you’re hungry to be part of an exceptional team - if you put quality first - if you’re motivated by ingenuity and if you’re always aspiring to be the very best.

  • Quality
  • THE CORNERSTONE OF OUR BUSINESS.

From concept to execution, our work is driven by passion, technical expertise and an uncompromising commitment to excellence - delivering solutions that stand the test of time. We don’t need - or want - to be the biggest. Just the best.

  • Ingenuity
  • AS STANDARD.

We question assumptions and look beyond the obvious - applying technical depth and creativity to solve problems that matter. We find better ways today, then improve on them tomorrow.

  • Partnership
  • BUILT ON TRUST. GROWN OVER TIME.

Since 1946, strong relationships have shaped everything we do. We listen, challenge with care, and stay with you for the long haul - turning shared goals into lasting impact.

  • Aspiration
  • THE FIRE IN OUR BELLY.

We start with a vision - then push the boundaries of what’s possible. With bold ideas and a clear view of the future, we turn ambitions into meaningful outcomes.

The benefits package we have put together for you supports every aspect of your life.

Annual
leave

A healthy holiday allowance that starts at 25 days pa, plus the option to buy, carry over or sell.

Community
spirit

You can take three volunteering days each year to spend time on causes close to your heart.

Mental
health

Mental Health First Aiders are here to support you, backed up by Unum’s Help@hand app.

Financial benefits

A path to peace of mind: life assurance, pension scheme and income protection.

Physical
wellbeing

Your health is a priority for us too, so we offer medical insurance, private GP access and discounted gym membership.

Flexible
working

Our flexible approach to hybrid working is there to suit you, your family and your team.

Career development

A pathway at Ridge that’s focused on your professional, personal or educational aspirations.

Extra
benefits

Performance bonus, car allowance and more based on your role - and progression.

We believe that everyone performs their best when they feel like they belong and can be their true selves at work. As an equal opportunities’ employer, we will support you to ensure you have everything you need to be successful and achieve your best in your career at Ridge. If you’d like to discuss accessibility, accommodations or adjustments during your application and selection process, please contact us at workwithus@ridge.co.uk and we will work with you to ensure you feel included and supported.

A polite note to Recruitment Agencies
We enjoy great relationships with our agency partners within our framework, and fully believe in the value of a blended approach to finding the best talent. However, we are recruiting for this role directly and aren’t seeking support from agency partners at this time – any unsolicited CV introductions won’t be honoured, and we won’t grant candidate ownerships on any introduction that you make for roles that haven’t been briefed and released to you by our Talent Acquisition team.

We are committed to nurturing strong partnerships within our agency framework, but there are occasions where we looking to enlist the help of others. If you would be interested in working with us in the future, please send a message to workwithus@ridge.co.uk, and we’ll reach out to you should there be an opportunity.

A polite note to recruitment agencies

We are recruiting for this role directly and aren’t seeking support from our agency partners. Any unsolicited CV introductions won’t be honoured, and we won’t grant candidate ownership on any introductions you make for roles that haven’t been briefed and released to you by our Talent Acquisition team.
If you are a recruitment agency who doesn’t currently work with Ridge but would like to, please send a message to workwithus@ridge.co.uk, and we’ll reach out to you should there be an opportunity.

We are recruiting for this role directly and aren’t seeking support from our agency partners. Any unsolicited CV introductions won’t be honoured, and we won’t grant candidate ownership on any introductions you make for roles that haven’t been briefed and released to you by our Talent Acquisition team.

If you are a recruitment agency who doesn’t currently work with Ridge but would like to, please send a message to workwithus@ridge.co.uk, and we’ll reach out to you should there be an opportunity.

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