Locations: Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or York (50/50 office/home)   Our client has an opening for a qualified Acoustician who enjoys working on and applying their skills to rail infrastructure and highways framework projects. Working alongside the N&V team lead and with colleagues from the wider 100+ strong Environmental team – you will focus on the delivery of high speed rail infrastructure projects both in the UK and overseas (including high speed trains in Saudi Arabia and further afield). Although direct rail noise & vibration experience would be advantageous, training will be provided to candidates wishing to work in this area – who already have 2+ years’ experience working in consultancy on environmental / highways / industrial / construction noise assessments. The role offers hybrid working of 3 days in the office / 2 days from home – and candidates should reside in the Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or York regions.

Principal Noise Consultant (leading a small team) Midlands region up to £50,000 This role is perfect for a consultant currently in a Senior role who would like to progress their career to lead a small team within a forward thinking, independent company. You will lead a small Acoustics team within a multi-disc civil engineering consultancy (around 40 staff in total) on a range of projects including environmental noise assessments for road / rail / infrastructure development / residential schemes. The role offers hybrid working, with flexibility to work from home and travel to the Midlands office 1-2 days per week. Candidates should ideally reside in the Derby / Notts / Leics / Birmingham / Warwickshire regions. Other requirements: Excellent attention to detail - An Acoustics related qualification – Corporate membership (ideally) with the Institute of Acoustics - A full UK driving licence.

Acoustic Consultant (Graduate – Senior) Kent / East London regions (hybrid working: office / home) up to £38,000 + Benefits   Our client is a multi-discipline environmental practice providing consultancy services to a range of clients across industry, construction and property development. Due to expansion, they are seeking to recruit a talented consultant to join their Acoustics team in the South East of England. Supporting the Acoustics Principal, you will be involved in a range of land and construction based projects. As well as a degree in Acoustics, you should ideally possess membership of the IOA (be that Technician membership, or full Corporate membership) and a full UK driving licence is a must. Good writing skills and ideally some experience using Sound Level Meters (for Graduates) will be required. Exposure to noise modelling software such as SoundPLAN or CadnaA would be beneficial. The position is open to Graduates right through to Senior level candidates – the role can be tailored to suit your level of experience.

Acoustics Engineers (from Consultant to Principal level) Working arrangement: (approx. 3 days from home / 2 in office or on site) Regions: Birmingham / Oxford / London up to £50,000 + Benefits package   Our client is a well established (almost 50 years) practice of consulting engineers. They have long term relationships with some of the biggest architects, contractors and institutions within the UK and have grown considerably over the last 5 years. This is an opportunity to be part of the next phase of the company’s growth and to join a forward thinking, dynamic acoustic team whose core values are centred on staff, clients, quality and sustainability. Applicants should have between 3 to 8 years’ experience in acoustic consulting and require experience in the following:

• Architectural building acoustics in schools, healthcare and residential developments
• noise surveys and on-site testing in buildings
• Report writing, preparing calculations and processing noise survey data
• Acoustic modelling with modern software packages
• The planning process and preparation of reports for Applications and to address Conditions - Guidance documents such as BS 8233, BS4142, PropPG, HTM 08-01, BB93, AVO guidance, amongst others

The successful applicant should be AMIOA / MIOA and appropriately qualified holding an acoustics or science based degree. Other formal qualifications such as the The Institute of Acoustics Diploma would be acceptable. You would be expected to work independently with support from more senior members of the acoustic team. You would be expected to deliver project work from inception to completion for small to medium sized projects and proactively liaise with other parts of the wider business and external clients.  

Acoustic Consultant | HOME-BASED (Home Counties / London areas) Our client is a well-established and successful independent Acoustic Consultancy who provide great career prospects with no glass ceiling to ambitious self-starters. They currently have an opening for an Acoustician with between 3-6 years consultancy experience, who can demonstrate an aptitude to working independently – whilst operating collaboratively on projects with colleagues based around the UK. This role will include submission of Planning Noise Impact Assessments to regulatory bodies, liaising with local authorities in relation to multiple noise sources on residential and commercial sites, writing high quality technical reports (and critiquing the work of junior colleagues), and noise modelling using SoundPLAN. Candidates will ideally possess between 3 and 6 years’ experience in consultancy, hold MIOA membership (or about to progress from AMIOA) and live in the South East of England.

• Lead Acoustics Consultant
• Central Birmingham office
• up to £45,000 with unlimited scope for growth

We have an excellent opportunity to lead the Central Birmingham office of this leading independent Acoustic Consultancy. You will be supported from the company head office in the north of England to help drive the development of the Birmingham office, where the company have established key relationships with well known Architects and are working on regeneration projects across Birmingham. You must be a motivated and enthusiastic Acoustic consultant - this role would ideally suit a candidate who is operating at high Consultant - Senior level, but perhaps feels further promotion opportunities may be limited. It is key that you are a confident communicator and can represent the business in a professional manner at client meetings. The role will be Central Birmingham based, with flexibility for 2 days per week working from home. You will possess a degree in Acoustics (or related subject) and hold MIOA status. This is a fantastic opening for the right individual to lead and grow the Birmingham office – there is unlimited potential for long term prospects and financial rewards based on performance and results.

Our client is a well-established and successful independent Environmental Consultancy with offices across Scotland, operating across a broad range of sectors including energy networks, renewables, minerals, commercial, residential and ports & harbours. They have a brilliant opportunity for an experienced Acoustic consultant to lead a small team of Noise specialists all located within Scotland. You will deliver noise impact projects working alongside colleagues from other teams such as Ecology, Hydrology and Land regeneration. Candidates will ideally possess around 7+ years’ experience in consultancy, hold MIOA membership and be proficient in using CADNA modelling software.

Your role will support the delivery of hydro-acoustic tasks that will likely include elements of experimental measurement and numerical prediction undertaken using test facilities within the UK and Europe and a high performance computing cluster.

You will work with the domain lead, task leads and project managers throughout the lifecycle of projects, from capturing customer requirements, through planning, task conduct, data analysis to delivering results by written reports and oral presentations. Throughout the life-cycle you will ensure that yours and the work of those working with you meets quality requirements, is delivered on schedule and to budget.

Specific Responsibilities and Challenges:

• Ability to recognise and resolve non-standard, challenging occurrences and problems with work assignments.
• Provide technical expertise in a customer facing and delivery focused environment.
• Perform engineering/technical assignments requiring the integration of a wide range of engineering/technical disciplines.
• Prepare written documentation on whole or segments of overall project.
• Exercise considerable discretion on a variety of complex assignments.
• Ability to work as an individual or part of a team and deliver whole or parts of projects.
• Remain proactive in new techniques and communicate these to colleagues.
• Interaction with project management and technical staff to align outputs.
• Identifying innovative solutions within time and budget constraints.
• Contribute to innovative solutions to customers’ problems.
• Carry out technical trials and contribute to their design and reporting.
• Production and delivery of tasks within time and budget constraints.
• Provision of responses to customers’ technical requirements within agreed timeframes.
• Continuing professional development of self.

Essential Education, Qualifications and Training

• BEng/BSc (1 or 2:1) in relevant technical applied science/engineering subject appropriately aligned with acoustical/optical/fluid measurements/modelling
• In lieu of degree qualification, relevant technical experience working in a science or engineering role.
• Membership of, or suitability to join, an aligned professional institution, e.g. IOA, IOP, IMechE, IET.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required

Essential

• Mix of practical and numerical skills and willingness to undertake desk and laboratory work.
• Mathematical ability necessary to undertake turbulence, acoustic and vibration calculations/predictions/data manipulation in MatLab and Excel.
• Good analytical skills and evaluative judgement based on the analysis of factual and qualitative information in complicated or novel situations.
• Contributing as a team member to complex scientific/engineering tasks in acoustics.
• Drafting technical documents, e.g. reports, technical specifications and project plans.
• Familiarity with technical risk and appropriate mitigation.
• Willingness to take responsibility for sub-tasks within technical projects.
• Awareness of relevant health and safety measures and processes.

Desirable

Ideally 1 or more years’ experience of 2 or more of the following:

• Experience of model-scale testing, design, preparation use of models, preferably in hydrodynamic/acoustic testing
• Experience, ideally experience of, noise, vibration and flow measurement techniques. Experience of optical/laser-based vibration and flow measurement methods.
• Understanding of engineering mechanical design processes, assurance calculations and low-volume manufacture.
• Familiarity with the UK Military and/or Commercial Marine industry.

Essential Personal Qualities and Behavioural Requirements:

• Strong communication and diplomacy skills are required to guide, influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas/departments and external customers/agencies.
• Able to think conceptually and translate into viable practical technical solutions.
• Make reliable and consistent judgments under minimal supervision.
• Sound planning and organisation skills.
• Flexibility in relation to work and deployment.
• Excellent team working skills.
• Clear thinking and adaptable.
• Ability to apply basic principles to solve complex problems.
• Ability to take responsibility for situations and work tasks.
• Ability to delegate work to others and motivate team to achieve a task.
• Must be sole UK National and have appropriate security clearance or be prepared to undergo vetting process.

We have a brilliant opportunity to work for a prestigious firm of Acoustical Engineers. You will be based in their Central London offices 2 days per week, with 3 days working from home. They are working on a plethora of amazing projects - virtual reality studios in Eastern Europe, theatres, office fit outs for technology clients, high end residential apartments, offices across Europe. Candidates will have significant experience of managing Building / Architectural Acoustics projects. The company offer a competitive basic salary, plus shares scheme and a range of flexible benefits.

Senior Building Acoustics Consultant: Surrey, Brighton or Edinburgh areas (hybrid working) Working arrangement: (approx. 3 days from home / 2 in office or on site) Regions: Surrey / Brighton / Edinburgh up to £50,000 + Benefits package   We have an outstanding opportunity to work for a dedicated firm of acoustic engineers. Working alongside a small team of Acousticians, you will have the opportunity to work on an array of brilliant projects including broadcasting studios, cinemas, hotels, universities, hotels, office fit outs, residential developments and motorsports teams! This opening would suit a consultant with around 4-5 years post-graduate experience who is looking for their next move and the opportunity to work on a diverse and interesting range of buildings and architectural acoustics projects. The role will encompass a healthy mix of work in the office, on site and from home. You will receive ongoing support and development to become a great all round consultant. Candidates must possess a degree in Acoustics (and ideally IOA Diploma), full membershop of the Institute of Acoustics (MIOA) and a full UK driving licence.

A unique opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Underwater Acoustician to join a small but expanding business in Southampton. The successful candidate will have proven underwater acoustics experience and should be able to manage multiple tasks, ranging from research and development of new and existing products, to working with Engineers and clients to specify, evaluate and support systems after they are installed in the UK and overseas. The ideal candidate will have at least 5 five years’ experience of underwater acoustics, including R&D of acoustic systems. You will be proficient in undertaking underwater acoustic measurements and acoustic modelling and have some experience of impact of underwater sound on marine life. Knowledge of micro-electronics and circuitry, programming languages (such as Embedded, LabVIEW), communication frameworks (such as Modbus over RS485) would be an advantage. A degree in Acoustics is essential for this role, as are excellent presentation and communications skills. You will have prior experience of successfully working in a commercial organisation.

We are seeking a Project Scientist / Field Engineer to join the UK operation of an international group of companies specialising in the design and manufacture of acoustic instrumentation, conduct of large scale and complex acoustic recording projects and numerical acoustic modelling of underwater noise. This role offers an excellent opportunity for a motivated and committed candidate to join this highly respected specialist underwater acoustics consultancy. The group employs some of the world’s leading acoustic and bioacoustic scientists and candidates will need to demonstrate an exceptional level of academic capability and a high standard of written English to be successful. The role principally involves advanced numerical acoustic modelling for a range of industrial activities, preparation of reports and presentation of results. A number of coding languages are used in the businesses modelling methodologies and there will be a steep learning curve requiring a diligent, proactive and thorough approach. Coding skills are essential as is an ability to work logically to manipulate large volumes of data in a variety of software applications. The work is also highly collaborative, and a typical project involves input from experts in a number of different offices around the world - therefore good communication skills are vital. The principle field role will involve preparation, deployment and retrieval of a variety of underwater acoustic instrumentation packages in coastal and offshore environments. There will be a requirement at times for a significant amount of world travel in addition to technical training overseas and candidates must be able to travel away from home for periods of up to one month, at short notice, without any domestic impediments. Candidates will require both a strong academic background (PhD) in either acoustics, physics, applied oceanography, engineering or maths as well as a willingness and practical ability to work effectively at sea and cope with the physical aspects of handling occasionally large and complex acoustic equipment in sometimes challenging settings. The role offers a significant amount of responsibility at an early stage and the successful candidate must demonstrate a considerable degree of self-reliance, initiative, attention to detail and an ability to work methodically, unsupervised. The challenges that accompany this position offer a high level of job satisfaction and intellectual fulfilment within the framework of this flexible, exceptionally friendly, international rapidly growing business. Candidates will need to be eligible to work in the UK, hold a full driving licence and, on joining, pass a UKOOA offshore medical and complete formal HSE (BOSIET) training to qualify for offshore work. Candidates must be able to achieve Developed Vetting Security Clearance to be considered for this post. A full UK driving licence is essential.

• Senior Energy Noise Consultant - up to €55,000 + Excellent Benefits Package Dublin based (3 days office / 2 from home)

Our client is seeking to appoint an experienced Environmental Noise specialist with strong technical acoustics skills in the areas of renewable energy and power infrastructure. This role represents an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of shaping the Acoustics offering across Ireland. Key experience / skills for this role -:

• Strong background in technical consulting with experience of windfarms, battery storage, electrical infrastructure and hydrogen
• Excellent project management and organisational skills within a consultancy firm
• Experienced in the use of CADNA noise modelling software
• Member of the Institute of Acoustics (MIOA)
• Full EU/Irish Driving License

Our client provides technology, solutions and consultancy services to national Defence departments. They currently have opportunities for Noise & Vibration Analysts. You will be working on a diverse range of projects and field trials performing a variety of tasks, including vibration monitoring analysis, acoustic prediction, machinery health diagnosis, large-scale instrumentation installation, data acquisition and analysis. The work will be a good mix of field trails on board vessels, and office based analysis and report writing. Applications are sought from candidates who possess a Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Physics or a related subject with experience in the field of Acoustics. Experience in using LMS, MATLAB, Python, LabView and Excel is sought. Candidates wishing to apply must be British Citizens permanently resident in the UK for the last 10 years consecutively, and be able to secure DV security clearance.