Job Description
Project Engineer / Senior Project Engineer (MEP / Building Services) – HS2 Programme
📍 Birmingham (BBV Office) | Hybrid (Min. 3 days office/site)
🕒 Full-time | 40 hours per week
📅 Contract to March 2027
💷 60-85ph (Inside IR35)
🚆 Major UK Infrastructure – HS2
We’re looking for experienced Project Engineers and Senior Project Engineers (MEP / Building Services) to join a major HS2 Integrated Project Team (BBV IPT) supporting the delivery of tunnel portal buildings and pumping station infrastructure.
This is a client-side assurance role, focused on overseeing contractor delivery rather than hands-on design. You’ll play a key part in ensuring complex building services systems are fully integrated, compliant, and delivered to programme.
What you’ll be doing:
- Acting as a client-side Project Engineer within the HS2 BBV IPT team
- Overseeing contractor design assurance for building services packages
- Supporting delivery across tunnel portals and pumping station assets
- Reviewing integration of key systems:
- Electrical power distribution
- Lighting systems
- HVAC
- Mechanical systems
- Fire and life safety systems
- Ensuring contractor self-assurance processes are robust and compliant
- Monitoring design maturity and system integration across disciplines
- Working closely with contractors, designers, and project stakeholders
- Supporting coordination meetings and site visits
- Helping ensure smooth transition from design into construction and delivery
What we’re looking for:
- Background in MEP / Building Services (electrical or mechanical bias)
- Experience in project engineering, assurance, or client-side roles
- Strong understanding of integrated building services systems
- Experience working on large infrastructure or complex building projects
- Confident reviewing technical documentation and contractor deliverables
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Comfortable working in a multi-disciplinary, fast-paced environment
Why this role?
- Work on one of the UK’s most significant infrastructure programmes (HS2)
- Long-term contract through to 2027
- Client-side role with real influence over delivery quality and integration
- Exposure to complex tunnel and pumping station infrastructure
- Collaborative multidisciplinary engineering environment
If you’re an experienced MEP / Building Services Project Engineer looking for a long-term, high-profile infrastructure role with real responsibility for delivery assurance, feel free to get in touch or apply.