Senior Façade Consultant

This role is tailor-made for the seasoned facade practitioner who thrives on complex challenges and delivering innovative solutions. With a proven track record in facade design, engineering, or consulting, you'll have the opportunity to apply your extensive expertise to high-profile projects, influencing every stage from concept development to final implementation. At Fortis Facades, you'll collaborate with industry leaders and utilise state-of-the-art technologies while mentoring junior team members.

Skills

Don't worry if you feel you don't have all of these, we don't expect you to. We want to help you grow.

• The engineering of multiple materials such as stainless-steel, aluminium, titanium, weathering steel, zinc, lead, granite, marble, limestone, sandstone, clay ceramics, concrete, ultra-high performance and fibre reinforced concrete, glass, timber, bricks and any material of your choice.
• Multi-regional wind loading assessments to local codes and standards.
• Multi-regional thermal assessments to local codes and standards.
• Review of contractor details and supporting calculations.
• Engineering assessments of:
• Pressure equalised unitised curtain walling design
• Window walling
• Sheet material
• Bomb blast analysis (Not essential)
• Cable tension net
• Fatigue calculations
• Comprehensive understanding of U.K and European building codes.
• Review of manufacturing processes.
• Understanding of thermal principles in respect to façades.

Qualifications

• UK driving licence.

Day-to-day Responsibilities

• Report writing and professional presentation.
• Understanding of façade construction and typologies.
• Review of sub-contractors.
• Sound comprehension of façade materials.
• Ability to communicate façade design with clients and multiple trades.
• Enjoys international travel (not all the time).
• Technical Note writing.
• Specification writing.
• Attending meetings on behalf of the business.

From the Team

• Don't worry about updating your CV, you can tell us about it in person.
• We don't do time sheets, you'll be too busy.
• We're open to remote working.
• We enjoy trips away as a company (when there's no pandemic).

Please get in touch if only to make a new connection.
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