Finitas Professional Services (FPS) provides flexible engineering resource to consultancies, contractors and client organisations requiring additional capability, capacity or specialist support.

From short-term technical input and project support to embedded roles and longer-term secondments, FPS provides experienced engineering resource that can integrate with existing teams and support projects where it is needed most.

Flexible Professional Support

Not every resource requirement needs a permanent appointment or a traditional consultancy commission.

Projects change, workloads fluctuate and sometimes a team simply needs additional capability to deliver.

FPS provides a flexible route to professional engineering support, including:

• Short and long-term secondments
• Embedded project support
• Interim engineering resource
• Ad-hoc technical support
• Civil and structural design
• Technical review and assurance
• Design management
• Project and multidisciplinary coordination
• Technical leadership
• BIM and digital engineering support
• Workload and resource support

Appointments can be structured around the requirements of the client, from targeted technical input through to integration within an existing project or management team.

Current Capability

FPS is currently centred around the experience and capability of Finitas Engineering’s founder, Andrew Snowball.

Andrew Snowball CEng FICE

Chartered Civil Engineer | Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers

Andrew is a civil and structural engineer with experience spanning technical design, project delivery, design management and engineering leadership.

His experience covers civil and structural engineering across buildings and infrastructure, working within multidisciplinary consultancy and major project environments in the UK and internationally.

Technical Capability

• Civil and structural engineering design
• Structural steelwork, concrete, masonry and timber
• Building structures and existing buildings
• Drainage and development infrastructure
• Design coordination and multidisciplinary delivery
• Technical checking and engineering assurance
• Project Management
• Design management
• BIM and digital engineering
• Technical standards and quality management
• Team and resource leadership
• Client and stakeholder management

Sector Experience

Experience includes work across:

• Residential and housing
• Healthcare and care
• Education
• Commercial
• Public sector
• Renewable & Energy
• Wastewater
• Rail and infrastructure
• Major development
• Existing buildings and refurbishment

Digital & Technical Tools

Experience includes:

Tekla Structural Designer | MasterSeries | Revit | AutoCAD | Civil 3D | Tedds | Dynamo | Python

alongside the development and implementation of BIM, digital engineering and technical design processes.

Professional Leadership

Alongside technical engineering delivery, Andrew has held senior professional and industry roles contributing to engineering standards, professional development and the wider profession.

These include involvement with the Institution of Civil Engineers and Institution of Structural Engineers across professional review, training, technical, regional and national activities.

This experience allows FPS to provide support beyond individual design tasks where clients require technical leadership, assurance, mentoring or development of engineering capability within their teams.

From Individual Expertise to Additional Resource

FPS is designed to grow with Finitas Engineering.

While current assignments are primarily delivered through Andrew’s own experience and capability, FPS can also provide a framework for Finitas Engineering engineers and technical staff to support other organisations through secondment, embedded appointments and project-based resource.

This allows clients to access additional capability while retaining the technical standards, professional oversight and engineering approach associated with Finitas Engineering.

A Different Kind of Engineering Support

FPS is not intended to replace a client’s existing team. It is there to strengthen it.

Whether the requirement is additional design capacity, specialist technical input, experienced project leadership or an engineer embedded within a team for a defined period, FPS provides a flexible way to access engineering capability without losing sight of the project that capability exists to deliver.