Building Services Manager

Talk Recruitment; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction company seeks an M&E Coordinator/Manager in Birmingham to oversee technical installations across multiple sites. The role involves ensuring compliance with specifications, managing project designs, and maintaining health and safety standards. Ideal for someone transitioning from subcontracting or consultancy, offering competitive remuneration and benefits.

Benefits

Car Allowance

Pension

Bonus

Qualifications

• Experience in M&E Coordinator or Manager roles.
• Background in Commercial, Leisure, Mixed Use, Residential projects.
• Experience with Main Contractors is ideal but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and control M&E installations, ensuring compliance with specifications.
• Monitor the flow of design information for construction activities.
• Conduct cost checks on M&E design proposals.

Skills

Knowledge of Building Sector

Good communication skills

Education

Relevant industry qualification (Degree / HND / HNC)

Job description

M&E Coordinator / M&E Manager / Building Services Manager

*Previous Main Contractor or Sub Contractor or Consultancy experience all considered.*

Sector: Building / Construction

Role:

As part of agrowing M&E team you will split your time across visiting2-3 sites in the midlands, so predominately live works. Upcoming projects initally in Derbyshire / Nottinghamshire.

Company:

My client is an international building main contractor with a strong order book of local midlands projects across a range of sectors.

This company is renowned for working on a variety of projects and in particular a reputation for prestigious and bespoke multi million pound projects.

This employer is looking to recruit a permanent M&E Manager or Senior M&E Managerto work on general build sector projects.

This is an ideal opportunity for someone looking to transfer their M&E experience into a main contractor environment for example from a Sub contractor or Engineering Consultancyoran alreadyexperienced main contractor M&E Coordinator / Manager.

Requirements:

To be considered for this M&E Coordinator / Manager role you must meet the following criteria:

- Knowledge of Building Sector.
- Previous employment as a M&E Co-ordinator, Building Services Coordinator, M&E Manager, Building Services Manager or Mechanical Design Engineer, Mechanical Designer, Project Engineer, M&E Supervisor or M&E Project Manager.
- Previous experience / knowledge in building sector projects such as Commercial, Leisure, Mixed Use, Residential, Apartment Blocks, Student Accommodation, Hotels, Extra Care Housing, MOJ, Industrial, Education or Healthcare.
- Previous Main Contractor employment would be ideal but not essential, Engineering Consultancy and M&E Subcontractor backgrounds also considered.
- Good communication skills.
- Relevant industry qualification (Degree / HND / HNC etc).

Duties:

The responsibility of this role is to coordinate and control specialist engineering installations and ensure that the work is completed with accordance with the specification and completed programme.

Key Accountabilities:

-Adhering to the company H&S policy.
-Monitor, co-ordinate and control the flow of M&E design information to ensure the timely release of information for construction activities.
-Ensuring the M&E designers identify hazards and assess risks to health and safety when designing the works.
-Review M&E design information at tender stage and undertake a full design gap analysis to advise the bidding team of any design shortfalls.
-Ensure all required approvals (statutory, regulatory, client and company) are in place as and when required.
-Assist in ensuring that the M&E designers produce design development programmes which meet the needs of the contract programme, and review the programmes regularly as required.
-Assist, when required, in the selection and appointment of the M&E consultant designers and design and build sub contractors.
-Ensure M&E information released for construction has been reviewed by all interface designers and construction team and amended/approved prior to issue for construction and is in line with the specification/ contract.
-Ensure M&E designs and details produced are economic and do not exceed budgeted or estimated cost without good reason and are in conformance with the specified or detailed requirements for quality.
-Ensure the M&E design is validated on completion of the works.
-Keep appropriate cost and installation records including the witnessing of testing and commissioning as required.
-Carry out cost checks on M&E design proposals and report serious deviations to senior management immediately.
-Ensure risk assessments are carried out and all risks identified.
-Assist in the production of O & M manuals on completion of the project.
-Ensure that specialist mechanical and electrical sub-contractors work strictly within company Safety Management System and comply fully with all its requirements.
-Promote the use of off site manufacturing to ensure programme and quality requirements are achieved using modern methods.
-To ensure that production controls are in place for monitoring, reporting, benchmarking works and improving performance.

Remuneration:

The successful Mechanical & Electrical Manager / Building Services Manager will receive:

*CompetitiveBasic (Dependent on experience)
*Car Allowance
*Pension
*Bonus

To be considered for this vacancy or to find out more information please apply now.
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