Graduate Building Performance Modeller Specialising in Energy and Thermal Modelling of Buildings – Manchester, Edinburgh, or Bristol

What if your first job empowered you to tackle climate change and shape the built environment’s future? Join us as a Graduate Building Performance Modeller and be part of a team that collaboratively develops innovative energy and thermal modelling solutions for beautifully integrated buildings that work for people and the planet.

This position is available for an immediate start. If you are interested in working with us, in addition to providing your CV, please apply with a conversational letter that tells us how your skills match the role criteria, and your interests align with our vision of a beautifully engineered net zero carbon world for a sustainable future. Also, please specify in the application form your availability to start and the location preferred. We are keen to hear from you.

About Max Fordham

Here, sustainability is not just a guiding fundament but an everyday practice, woven into the fabric of our projects and professional culture. As you expand your expertise, you’ll play a vital role in delivering technical solutions that advance both environmental responsibility and engineering quality, ensuring every project meaningfully contributes to the legacy of the built environment.

Max Fordham is an award-winning MEP engineering practice that is owned by the people who work here, and we are all committed to leading the industry in tackling the challenges posed by the climate and biodiversity crises.

We believe it is a shared responsibility to look after each other, care for our communities, and create a sustainable world. We pride ourselves on providing an open, inclusive and supportive environment for our employees and partners.

About the Role

An exceptional graduate opportunity is available to join our expanding Building Performance Modelling team, in either Manchester, Edinburgh, or Bristol office. As part of this team, you would work collaboratively with our wider building services teams to develop energy and thermal strategies that enable us to deliver world-class sustainable buildings.

This is an engineering position specialising in the use of Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES) Virtual Environmental (VE) modelling software. The role involves carrying out domestic and non-domestic modelling for:

• UK Building Regulations energy assessments

• Operational energy assessments

• Overheating assessments

• Natural ventilation modelling

• Daylight modelling

• BREEAM modelling

• NABERS modelling

The role involves engaging and collaborating with the wider design team to develop the modelling within the project constraints. This is in addition to supporting our project engineers, giving guidance on when modelling is required, the extent of modelling required, sensible approaches to issues, while having the confidence to interrogate the brief received from a project engineer.

Training and support of the extended group of engineers delivering modelling is planned to be delivered from the central Building Performance Modelling team and will form part of this role.

We welcome applications from graduate engineers who are keen to influence positive outcomes: meeting the needs of clients and our society; using design to proactively respond to the climate emergency; communicating clearly and collaborating effectively with our services engineers to deliver world-class sustainable buildings.

About you

We value people with the ability to think analytically and creatively, adopting a first principles approach to create elegant and innovative solutions to practical engineering problems. We recruit and train people who can rise to this challenge.

This role requires a motivated team player who is keen and willing to learn. As such, essential personal attributes for this role include a high sense of ownership for the work that you do. You must care about the presentation and detail of the design and have a great desire to achieve technical excellence and completeness.

Good communication skills are important for this role, both verbal and written, as articulating proposals and results in an engaging way is imperative to achieve a successful outcome. We are looking for an engineer with an attention to detail who has excellent time management and organisational skills as the nature of the work means they will potentially have several projects in progress at once.

To qualify for this role, you should be practically minded and have a background in maths, science or engineering. Ideally you would have a qualification in one of these areas; however, we are open to receiving a broad range of applicants. You should have a great desire to work in the building design industry.

If you have the skills we are looking for, we would love to hear from you.

What We Offer

• Excellent growth opportunities for your personal and career development in a knowledge driven environment

• Interesting and technically challenging projects

• An inclusive culture and cooperative environment

• Competitive pay and employee bonus

• Mentored support towards professional accreditation

• An annual professional institution subscription

• Opportunities for involvement in business-running activities

• Adaptable working arrangements

• Six weeks holiday (including Bank holidays)

• Max Fordham Pension Scheme

• Other benefits include generous paid parental leave, sick pay, and treatment pay, Employee Assistance Programme

• Future opportunities for Partnership

Closing date:

26th January 2026 at 22:00 (GMT)

How to apply

This position is available for an immediate start.

If you are interested in working with us, we are keen to hear from you. In addition to providing your CV, please note that it is essential to include a conversational letter with your application, that tells us how your skills match the role criteria, and your interests align with our vision of a beautifully engineered net zero carbon world for a sustainable future.

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