Senior Digital Buildings Consultant

Facility Performance Consulting Limited

About The Position

The Senior Digital Buildings Consultant leads teams and delivers consultancy and systems-engineering projects involving digital building technologies, applications, processes, and standards. As part of FPC Global’s Digital Building Services Group, the consultant delivers services in accordance with the agreed scope of work and relevant client requirements, policies, standards, and processes. The role represents FPC in client and industry-partner engagements and requires consistently high technical and professional standards, honesty, and integrity. The consultant serves as a technical lead and team leader, provides day-to-day mentoring and support to colleagues, and contributes to the development of the Digital Building Services team and the wider FPC business. The position combines client-facing project delivery, technical oversight, stakeholder management, team development, compliance, and business-development support.

Requirements

At least 10 years of experience in the Digital Building and IoT industry.
Proven track record in digital-building-related roles, such as consultant, subject-matter expert, or technical project manager.
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Controls, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
Strong communication, interpersonal, stakeholder-management, and program-management skills, including the ability to collaborate across geographies and cultures.
Experience developing coordinated designs, including gathering and documenting client requirements, creating or reviewing technical submittals, and developing scopes of work and specifications.
Strong technical expertise in digital building technologies, including some or all of: systems integration design and implementation; control strategies; system specifications and architectures; schematic drawings and wiring diagrams; descriptions of operations; point naming and addressing; BMS and automation systems; lighting controls; audiovisual systems; control protocols; asset management; and IoT devices.
Familiarity with cybersecurity best practices.
Understanding of IP networking, including IPv4, IPv6, switching, routing, DHCP, Wi-Fi, and structured cabling.
Experience with system audits and on-site surveys.
Competence using Google Suite and/or Microsoft Office applications.
Ability to attend project, client, and team meetings and prepare documentation and presentations.

Nice To Haves

Digital Building or IoT industry training and professional qualifications.
Knowledge of facility operations and digital building systems.
Experience or qualifications in the design, delivery, and operation of IoT systems.
Experience with cloud platforms such as Google, Microsoft, or Amazon and with data analytics.
Experience with AutoCAD, BIM, or Visio.
Knowledge of RIBA/AIA work stages or international equivalents.
Experience with construction projects and contracting.
Experience with systems testing and commissioning, FDD, and automated commissioning.

Responsibilities

Deliver consultancy and engineering projects in accordance with proposals, scopes of work, and engagement letters.
Define project scopes, objectives, and deliverables with clients and internal teams; coordinate priorities, resources, and execution.
Understand client requirements and business objectives, build stakeholder relationships, and communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences.
Provide technical leadership, oversight, guidance, and coaching to junior consultants; act as a subject-matter expert and lead end-to-end project execution.
Develop technical strategies, management approaches, and governance frameworks for digital solutions.
Build, mentor, and lead engineering teams, supporting innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.
Advise and collaborate on digital building systems integration, technologies, initiatives, processes, standards, and solutions.
Design and review digital building systems and architectures, identify issues, and recommend improvements.
Produce technical, service-delivery, and project reports, and maintain project documentation as agreed.
Develop and implement standards, best practices, and guidelines for digital building technologies.
Ensure client digital building solutions comply with OT/IT cybersecurity standards, regulatory requirements, and risk-management protocols.
Represent FPC professionally and support customer satisfaction, effective teamwork, and the development of the Digital Building Services team and FPC business.
Manage workload, report to the line manager, escalate issues, and comply with FPC employment, health and safety, and administrative policies and procedures.
Identify potential revenue opportunities and support business-development activity when required.
Identify, develop, deliver, and support continuous-improvement opportunities for FPC.