Max Fordham Consulting Engineers are award-winning designers of energy efficient systems for building services and the wider environment. We design services for both individual buildings in a wide range of sectors and for urban masterplanning and infrastructure.

Royal Air Force Museum, Cosford. Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects. Photograph by Helen Binet

We work alongside architects, clients and other specialists to design systems which balance occupant comfort and enjoyment with the responsible use of resources.

We provide consultation and design of effective, innovative solutions to contemporary issues of energy-use in the built environment.

What we look for in a Graduate

The Practice was founded in 1966 by Max Fordham with the aim of devoting the same level of detail and attention to engineering a building’s comfort that an architect devotes to its design.  To maintain this ethos in the work the practice does, we look to recruit self-starting science, engineering or mathematics graduates, with a good understanding of physics and a genuine interest in design and resolving issues surrounding the servicing of a building.

We require a minimum grade of 2:1 or above, or the equivalent.

We consider applications for all three offices; London, Cambridge and Edinburgh.  Start dates are ongoing and salary expectations for the first year are between £20,000 and £24,000.  Partnership with profit-share maybe offered after 4 years.

What graduates are expected to do

Buildings are responsible for over half the carbon emissions produced by our society, we aim to minimise this impact on the environment by making use of passive design. Graduates will contribute to all areas of the wide ranging projects we undertake.  The work is varied, interesting and demanding. Engineers are encouraged to generate and develop their own ideas and to handle a wide range of technical issues.  They are expected to produce and communicate appropriate designs that match the aesthetic aspirations of the architect and then manage the building contracts to install their designs.

Training and Development

Engineers work in project teams and are trained by senior engineers on the job and through seminars to be proficient in all aspects of the design and contract work of the building programme. Each Graduate is assigned a mentor and Graduates are encouraged to work towards Chartered Engineer Status.

Opportunities are also offered in teaching, attending and speaking at conferences, and participation in the engineering community.  Over recent years the practice has help to design and shape some of the most significant building projects around the UK and in major European cities, members of the practice have also produced several successful books, see www.maxfordham.com for more details on our experience.

Practice Publications

Environmental Design: An introduction for architects and engineers (ISBN 0-415-36334-9)
Sustainable Urban Design: An environmental approach (ISBN 0-415-28123-7)
Photovoltaics and Architecture: Solar energy in buildings (ISBN 0-415-23182-5)

Projects

Visit our website for more information about recent projects, including MAXXI, Museum of Twenty First Century Arts, Rome (Zaha Hadid); Victoria House, London (Alsop Architects); LSO St Luke’s, London (Levitt Bernstein); Gagosian Gallery, London (Caruso St John); Royal Festival Hall, London (Allies + Morrison); Heelis, National Trust HQ, Swindon (Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects).

Application Details

Please send your CV and a chatty letter demonstrating high academic achievement, relevant experience, interests, your reasons for apply and indicating whether you have the right to work in the UK to Rachel Jackson, preferably by email to: jobs@maxfordham.com or by post to:

Max Fordham LLP,
42/43 Gloucester Crescent,
London, NW1 7PE. 
Tel: 020 7267 5161
Fax: 020 7482 0329

Max Fordham LLP is committed to the principle of equal opportunity in employment. We seek to ensure that no applicant, employee or member of the Partnership is discriminated against, either directly or indirectly, on the grounds of their religious beliefs, age, race, sex, sexual orientation or disability.