Senior Building Services Manager

Morgan Sindall Construction; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction company in the Northern Home Counties is seeking an experienced Senior Building Services Manager. This crucial role involves coordinating M&E subcontractors, ensuring project compliance, and delivering innovative engineering solutions. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in mechanical and electrical disciplines, with significant experience in managing multidisciplinary teams. If you're looking to advance your career in a progressive and supportive environment, apply today.

Benefits

Inclusive work culture

Support for career development

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• Significant experience in the main contracting market.
• Experience working on residential, educational, healthcare or leisure schemes.
• Understanding of detailed M&E procedures.

Responsibilities

• Provide advice on building services risk and opportunity.
• Manage design and delivery process of M&E elements.
• Champion process improvements in procurement and design.

Skills

Project management

M&E design and commissioning

Budget management

Process improvement

Client communication

Education

Qualified in mechanical and/or electrical disciplines

Tools

Breeam knowledge

Job description

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Senior Building Services Manager (Northern Home Counties Business)

Location: Welwyn Garden City Site Based, with flexibility for occasional remote working

We are looking for an experienced and talented Senior Building Services Manager to support the Technical Team and manage the various M&E related subcontractors through their CDP design development, site installation and commissioning, ensuring all works are fully coordinated and delivered in accordance with the contract programme on all contracts allocated within the Northern Home Counties Business unit. This position is project based, with flexibility for occasional remote working.

About Morgan Sindall

Morgan Sindall Construction is an Investors in People Platinum employer providing national construction services to private and public sector customers across a range of markets. Together, we create great results for our customers, partners and people. We are one of the UK’S most successful Tier 1 contractors. As a progressive and ambitious company, our employees benefit from a safe and rewarding working environment.

About the role

You will be working within our Construction London & Home Counties business, where you will:

• Provide comprehensive professional advice with regard to building services risk and opportunity, design and construction issues
• Interrogate and assess design and value engineering ensuring that the most cost effective and buildable solutions are achieved
• Provide support and advice for the on‑site teams to ensure the smooth running and delivery of the M&E elements of projects
• Champion process improvements to the bidding, procurement, design and construction procedures regarding services integration and procurement of statutory supplies
• Manage and coordinate safely the overall design and delivery process bringing innovation, continuous improvement benefits, sustainability and life cycle benefits to the project
• Assist the bid manager with the evaluation of the tender documentation including identification of risk and opportunity, coordination issues, and value and cost engineering
• Review all relevant pre‑qualification enquiry information and assist with any documents and presentations
• Identify any variance from the employer's requirements and include these within the tender contractors proposals
• Assist the bid team to establish provision of temporary services for construction
• Integrate the M&E design process with functional bid and operational team members (at appropriate stages) incorporating mentoring and training of functional and non‑functional team members and achieving/bettering commercial targets
• Ensure completion and compliance of building services procedures and integration of design management department procedures
• Ensure appropriate design resource, skill sets and structure
• Ensure sustainability drivers and leadership is fully included
• Act as a main point of contact for customers for building services and provide advice on engineering services issues, renewable technology solutions and sustainability matters
• Ensure customer information and key drivers are cascaded to the design team
• Advise the customer on design change implications
• Ensure designers delivering to Employer's Requirements and sustainability targets
• Provide interface with customer if appropriate as defined in the project structure
• Ensure 'added value' benefits are communicated to the customer and advise on alternative building engineering design solutions where appropriate
• Set‑up and agree design management regime with the building services design team
• Establish an agreed scope of services for designers, subcontractors and suppliers and ensure adherence to the design brief/scope of service and develop a comprehensive scope of service for key stages of project
• Programme and manage all design reviews and co‑ordination meetings. Ensure fully coordinated design strategy is in place and work closely with other discipline lead designers to deliver coordinated design solutions
• Ensure that fully coordinated design programmes are produced that integrate with the agreed project programme and that the programmes are regularly monitored for progress and updated as required in relation to specific building services requirements
• Prepare technical reports for presentation to regarding building services and associated activities
• Provide advice on statutory services and obtain firm quotations for new services into sites
• Attend customer presentations to cover all aspects of building services design options including cost benefit and best value analyses
• Provide general advice and improvement of building engineering services knowledge and Regulatory changes to senior managers
• Provide onsite coordination of service installation and design development with supply chain/consultants including chairing of M&E design team meetings
• Work closely with construction teams to integrate building services solutions with overall building design and advising potential implications/solutions
• Identify potential M&E consultant (if required) and building services subcontractors based on cost and experience of the project being tendered for
• Carry out appraisal of subcontractors' quotations and challenge where required
• Advise the project team and make recommendations for the selection and appointment of building services subcontractors
• Instigate improvements to service levels with supply chain companies to enhance our bids
• Monitor, manage and review supply chain partners and subcontractors service delivery and customer interface
• Agree quality plans with supply chains and undertaking quality inspections including reporting on installations and witness testing of completed installations
• Complete and own commissioning programmes and undertaking end user briefings and training
• Agree and review health and safety file documentation prior to customer submission
• Provide assistance to the planner in producing a full construction/services programme, showing long lead items, design and commissioning aspects of the project
• Attend the tender handover/review and commissioning meetings
• Assist in the collating of queries/RFIs and pursue resolution from the design team consultants
• Ensure that Morgan Sindall's Perfect Delivery philosophy is implemented throughout the project
• Verify and control and document the demonstration techniques from the subcontractors to the customer's representatives of the services installation

Ideally you will have

Significant experience in the main contracting market with experience of working on Residential, Educational, Healthcare or Leisure schemes between £10 and £100 million.

What are we looking for

Already experienced as a senior building services manager you will be qualified in mechanical and/or electrical disciplines. You will have a full understanding of detailed M&E procedures and will have a good level of technical and professional expertise. You will have the ability to produce M&E design, installation and commissioning programmes and you will have a good level of understanding of Breeam.

To thrive in our business, you should share our passion for the project at hand and enjoy working in an inclusive and hardworking team environment. At Morgan Sindall Construction our employees work collectively, encouraging and challenging each other to succeed. Across our business we treat everyone equally and have developed a community where voices are heard, and respected.

What can we offer you

Working in our Northern Home Counties business, you will be part of a growing and dynamic team of people who are passionate about what they do and enjoy the challenge and pace of work in a hardworking and fun construction environment. No day will be the same and we challenge each other to deliver what's right for our customers.

Our culture is so important to us and defines the way we go about our business. We are inclusive, supportive and team focused and take pride in the longstanding and committed relationships we have with our supply chain partners.

Our culture places a huge amount of trust in our team - we all know what is expected of us and we are committed to delivering as individuals and as a team.

If you are interested in furthering your career in an inclusive and supportive environment, apply to us today.

Equality Statement

Morgan Sindall Construction seeks to recruit the best person for each of our roles, based on merit alone and free from bias. We're committed to treating all our job applicants fairly and with respect, irrespective of their background, disability, or any other protected characteristic.

We recruit individuals who embody our core values of professionalism, expertise and trust which has given us a fantastic variety of people and cultures across our organisation.

Morgan Sindall Construction are committed to collaborating with skilled and dedicated people, we recognise that valuable experience is gained outside of the industry. We are welcoming and fully supportive of Veteran and Service Leaver applicants for all roles within the business.

We celebrate our diverse teams who make Morgan Sindall Construction the inclusive, collaborative and rewarding place it is to work. We hire the best in the industry, provide them the support to achieve their goals and challenge them to make a real impact on our business. If you want to join an organisation that truly sees and harnesses what makes you unique, apply to us today.

Diversity and Inclusion Statement

Our aim is to create a workplace built on acceptance, respect, and inclusion, where everyone feels that they belong and can make a meaningful contribution. We encourage applicants regardless of religion, ethnicity, nationality, disability status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family, or parental status. Morgan Sindall Construction is an equal opportunities employer and has been accredited with the Positive About Disabled People 'Two Ticks' accreditation. We are also an Investors in People company.

Morgan Sindall is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK. In the recruitment process all applicants are required to provide the necessary right to work information and documentation. Our recruitment process should be accessible to all. If you need any assistance or accommodation during the recruitment process, please email [email protected]