M&E Design Manager

Raven Search; Greater London; Sur place; GBP 70 000 - 80 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Full company benefits package

Résumé du poste

Raven Search is seeking a Design Manager to lead the in-house M&E design function in Wigan. You will oversee the mechanical and electrical design team, drive standards, and ensure high-quality output across live and bid projects for education, healthcare and public sector clients.

The role offers career scope, with a strong emphasis on governance, BIM/CAD standards, and collaboration with pre-construction, estimating and delivery teams. A competitive package is on offer.

Qualifications

• Strong mechanical or electrical design background with building services experience.
• Experience leading a design team and managing multiple projects.
• Chartered status or working towards it is welcomed, though not essential.

Responsabilités

• Lead the mechanical and electrical design team and set design standards.
• Manage design resource and workload across live projects.
• Ensure design output is technically accurate and buildable.
• Be senior design point of contact for clients and main contractors.

Connaissances

Mechanical design

Electrical design

Team leadership

Client engagement

Quality control

Formation

Degree/HCN-HND in Mechanical or Electrical Building Services Engineering

Outils

Revit

AutoCAD

BIM coordination

Description du poste

The Opportunity

Our client, an established M&E engineering specialist based in Wigan, is looking for a Design Manager to lead their design function.This is not what M&E design usually means. Education, healthcare and public sector work, rather than the industrial and process schemes most designers spend a career on.You would lead the mechanical and electrical design team, taking responsibility for design quality, standards and output across live projects, managing workload and resource, and acting as the senior design point of contact for clients and main contractors. It is a role with real scope to shape how the design function operates, working closely with pre-construction, estimating and delivery rather than in isolation.This is a permanent role in Wigan, £70,000 to £80,000 depending on experience, plus a full benefits package.

About the Business

Public sector and framework work changes what a design function is for. When the same clients come back, the standards, templates and details the team sets get used again rather than rebuilt from scratch, so the value of getting them right compounds. That is a large part of why this role exists, and why it carries the BIM and CAD standards alongside the projects.Our client is an M&E engineering specialist covering mechanical, electrical, HVAC, in-house design and maintenance under one roof, working nationally from a strong North-West base. Projects range from smaller, fast-turnaround schemes through to multi-million-pound work, for long-term public sector clients with a high proportion of repeat and framework business across education, healthcare, local authority, transport and the wider public sector. Design sits in house, working alongside pre-construction, estimating and delivery rather than separately, and the business holds ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001.That range of scale is the part most people underestimate. It means holding quality across two very different tempos at once, with the same team and the same standards, and it is why the role is as much about resource and priorities as it is about engineering.

What You'll Be Doing

Leading the mechanical and electrical design team, setting standards and ensuring consistent quality across all design outputManaging design resource and workload across live projects, balancing priorities as the pipeline changesTaking design deliverables from concept through to construction, ensuring technical accuracy and buildabilityActing as the senior design point of contact for clients, main contractors and consultantsReviewing and approving design output before issue, maintaining rigorous quality controlSupporting the pre-construction and estimating teams with design input at bid stageMaintaining and developing BIM and CAD standards, templates and workflows across the design teamMentoring and developing design engineers, supporting their technical growth and progressionWorking closely with delivery teams to resolve design queries and support constructability throughout installation.

What We're Looking For

A strong mechanical or electrical design background within building services, with experience managing or leading a design teamComfortable taking ownership of design quality and output across multiple concurrent projectsConfident engaging directly with clients and main contractors on technical and design mattersStrong working knowledge of Revit, AutoCAD and BIM coordination processesComfortable mentoring and developing less experienced design engineersDegree, HNC/HND or equivalent in Mechanical or Electrical Building Services EngineeringFull UK driving licenceExperience of education, healthcare or wider public sector design work is a strong advantage, and chartership or working towards it is welcomed, though neither is essential.

What's on Offer

£70,000 - £80,000 depending on experienceDesign leadership (The function is yours to shape)Full company benefits packagePublic sector and framework work, distinct from standard commercial or industrial designVariety of scale, from fast-turnaround schemes through to multi-million-pound projectsIn-house delivery and estimating capability supporting the design team.