Lead DFMA Engineer

Are you a Lead DfMA Engineer with mechanical, electrical, and plumbing sector knowledge? Are you passionate about making improvements? Can you solve problems and embrace change through innovation? If the answer is yes, then the opportunity below is for you!

The opportunity:

Laing O'Rourke's 2025 Mission is to become the recognised leader for innovation and excellence in the construction industry, driven by innovation and with technical excellence in design, manufacturing, and construction at its core.

Crown House Technologies is the specialist MEP delivery unit of Laing O'Rourke and is currently recruiting a Lead MEP DfMA Engineer to join the team.

Through DfMA, we are installing building services quicker, safer, and more sustainably. Using manufacturing systems in a controlled environment, we produce components of consistently high quality to a predictable schedule, leading to dependable financial control, as well as ensuring a safer, more productive site with less congestion between trades.

The use of a factory-controlled environment brings significant quality benefits to the finished services, allows pre-commissioning, and provides a safer, more productive environment for our staff.

What will the role look like?

• Ideally, you'll have experience managing a team, with the ability to lead, support, and drive performance.
• Manage works associated with the integration and deployment of building services DfMA solutions on projects, from product development through to subcontractor management.
• Implement DfMA Solutions to consultant designs and drawings to produce technically compliant DfMA Strategies, interrogating designs and manufacturing drawings to ensure efficient information flow to our Manufacturing Facility.
• Integrate the design and understand the key design phases on a project and how they fit into the overall project programme while envisaging the multi-disciplinary nature of design and what this means for the DfMA works.
• Actively contribute to the RDC (Request for Design Change) procedure for change of design information of the properties of commonly used DfMA materials and where these materials are best suited for use on engineering and construction projects.
• Support the work winning function in producing collaborative DfMA strategies and building DfMA Cost Plans.
• Ensure DfMA Solutions are designed and delivered safely, with value add and efficiently.
• Interpret the principles of design, installation, and commissioning of various building services systems and apply that knowledge in a DfMA setting.
• Review and approve manufacturing drawings in line with exemplars and project-specific engineering, ensuring incorporation of comments as necessary and applying manufacturing principles in DfMA product design.
• Review Digital Engineering modelling for project construction/logistics purposes (e.g., temporary works, sequence animation, and site induction).
• Inform the DfMA team of changes. Mark up drawings with changes referencing documentation that verifies change.
• Help develop and influence site logistics plans for the delivery of the DfMA products for the project.

What skills & experience are we looking for?

• Passion and interest in DfMA.
• HNC/HND/Degree in a relevant engineering field, or equivalent skills and knowledge to demonstrate experience.
• Capability of using: BlueBeam, Microsoft Office Suite, Navisworks.
• 2+ years as a DfMA Engineer (or equivalent industry role), with a minimum of 5+ years relevant technical and practical experience within an engineering role.
• Knowledgeable in construction methods, practices, and innovation improvement.