Electrical MEP Preconstruction Lead - Life Sciences

unispacelifesciences; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Unispace Life Sciences is seeking an MEP Pre-Construction Manager - Electrical to lead the electrical discipline from bid through handover, ensuring buildable, compliant, and commercially robust solutions for life sciences facilities.

You'll collaborate with Technical Commercial Managers, estimators, designers, and contractors across the UK, review designs and specifications, identify risks, and drive tender qualification and strategy.

Qualifications

• Strong electrical building services background with life-science project experience preferred.
• Ability to read, challenge and mark up drawings, specifications, employer requirements, contractor proposals, calculations, schedules and technical submittals.
• Commercial awareness and ability to translate technical risk into scope, pricing, assumptions, exclusions and tender qualifications.
• Strong working knowledge of UK building regulations, statutory compliance, industry standards and discipline-specific best practice.
• Confident communicator with consultants, subcontractors, clients, estimators, quantity surveyors, preconstruction and construction teams.
• High standard of written technical communication, document control, version management and audit trail discipline.
• Competent user of Microsoft 365 and SharePoint. Autodesk Forma training will be provided. Power BI or structured reporting experience beneficial but not required.
• Full, clean UK driving licence and own vehicle.

Responsibilities

• Provide discipline-specific leadership across electrical MEP packages while maintaining awareness of the full coordinated MEP strategy.
• Review designs, drawings, schedules, specifications and employer requirements for technical correctness, statutory compliance and buildability.
• Identify technical risks, scope gaps, assumptions and exclusions early enough to influence tender, pricing and contractual position.
• Lead the review and development of the MEP strategy during bid, feasibility, design development and contractor engagement stages.
• Identify electrical design gaps, utility constraints, earthing and bonding issues, compliance risks and contractor scope splits.
• Support electrical contractor tender reviews, technical clarifications and compliance matrices.

Skills

Electrical building services

Drawings & specs review

Commercial awareness

UK building regs

Stakeholder communication

Document control

MS 365 & SharePoint

Autodesk Forma

Power BI (adv)

Driving licence

Tools

Autodesk Forma

Power BI

SharePoint

Job description

Unispace Life Sciences is seeking an MEP Pre-Construction Manager - Electrical to lead the electrical discipline from bid through handover, ensuring buildable, compliant, and commercially robust solutions for life sciences facilities.

You'll collaborate with Technical Commercial Managers, estimators, designers, and contractors across the UK, review designs and specifications, identify risks, and drive tender qualification and strategy.