Principal IT/AV (ELV) Consultant

The Team

We are an award winning global consultancy and have been named Building’s Engineering Consultant of the Year in 2024, 2022 and 2021. We are at the forefront of the industry, priding ourselves on our exemplary track record of designing innovative and sustainable projects.

Sustainability runs through everything we do at Cundall, and our people are empowered to drive change and decarbonise the built environment. By the end of this decade, we have set ourselves an ambitious goal to only work on projects that meet our zero carbon design criteria, a commitment we have called our Zero Carbon Design 2030 goal. We need engineers who share this passion for sustainability and thrive in designing energy efficient buildings and communities.

Our ELV Consultancy play a key role in digitally enabling the built environment to provide a technologically enhanced environment commensurate with our clients’ needs.  We pride ourselves on being a market leader in our field, working globally with high profile clients in fin tech, HQ offices, smart campuses, and smart buildings. Our reputation has led to us advising on global technology benchmarking and technological certification of buildings.

We – both in Poland and globally – work across a range of market sectors including workspace and residential, mission critical and academia, work that has seen us feed into the new technical approach for UK schools and assessing smart systems for the technical evolution of Muscat in Oman.

The Role

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced ELV Consultant with the ability to engage and interact with stakeholders at different levels, joining our Poland Warsaw team to play a leading role in ensuring the successful delivery of innovative design solutions, whilst providing technical and team leadership.

You will collaborate within the wider Cundall team and external partners, working closely with colleagues of various disciplines to help manage the delivery of technically excellent and successful projects.

The role will include managing engineers to deliver designs, technical reviews, stakeholder engagement, and monitoring fee and programme for projects. You will be involved in QA processes, establishing deliverables, mentoring and work winning activities.  Using your expertise and determination you can manage, motivate, and inspire less experienced engineers.

You will also support, and be supported by, senior management staff within the team, embracing the collaborative and supportive behaviours Cundall exhibit.

The Skills

Working towards, or already be, a Chartered Engineer as well as hold licence for design of telecommunication installations and systems, educated to degree level in Electrical or Telecommunication Engineering, you will ideally have gained significant experience in an ELV consultancy and / or engineering role within the ELV design field.

Ideally, you will have experience in the ELV design field including an understanding the principals of fire alarm, voice alarm, access control, CCTV, intruder alarm, and IT services design and delivery.  However, we are willing to work with the right driven and technically strong individual to develop these skills. In your most recent position, you have consistently demonstrated your ability to manage small to medium-scale projects and less senior engineers to deliver to, and exceed, client expectations.

You have proven ability in producing schematic diagrams, preparing specifications and project reports, carrying out site inspections and surveys, detail design development as well as lead project meetings.  Knowledge of WiredScore or other technical benchmarking for buildings is a positive, bringing your own opinions on how we can support clients through technical journeys. Through this experience, you can support your project teams to design and develop detailed and accurate designs.

Essential traits for the successful candidate include:

• Ability to take ownership for tasks and deliverables
• IT and ELV experience of passive IT infrastructure, fire alarm, voice alarm, intruder alarm, CCTV and access control systems
• Capacity to think around problems and help guide the team and client towards solutions
• Experience of working with a wider team including architects, MEP and installation teams
• Organised and confident communicator with excellent client facing skills
• CNBOP, NODEX, TECHOM, PISA certificates will be an advantage

You will need to communicate both orally and written in Polish and English therefore a minimum level of B2 in both languages is a mandatory requirement. 

What’s in it for you?

We offer a competitive starting salary, as well as many training and development opportunities to make sure you keep progressing, and:

• A full-time position
• Stable work in an international environment
• A flexible benefits package which enables you to select additional benefits to suit your personal circumstances such as medical insurance, co-financing for sports package (e.g., multisport card)
• Employee Capital Plans (PPK)
• A bonus for referring a friend into the company

Job Description

Your career at Cundall

We know that to be the best at what we do we need a diverse workforce underpinned by an inclusive culture. Creating environments where everyone can find joy doing their best work is also great for everyone. That is why we positively welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and identities, and encourage, support, and celebrate the diverse voices of our people. 

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