Senior Mechanical Design Manager

Kier Group; Huntingdon; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Kier Group is seeking a Senior Mechanical Design Manager to join the KME team on a major healthcare project in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. The role focuses on delivering robust mechanical design solutions, leading multi-disciplinary teams, and driving value while minimising risk across the scheme.

You will collaborate with project teams, manage design activities, and contribute to tendering and project handover, ensuring high standards and effective communication with stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience as an MEP design manager for a main contractor or Tier 1 MEP contractor.
• Strong technical understanding of MEP/H services, systems and interfaces.
• Proven ability to lead teams and manage multiple objectives.
• Proactive problem solving with strong organisation and planning abilities.
• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills across all levels.

Responsibilities

• Manage design and working drawing activities within budgets and programmes.
• Lead design safety reviews and ensure CDM compliance.
• Oversee internal and external design teams, ensuring quality and suitable design solutions.
• Build effective relationships with clients, project teams and stakeholders through clear communication.
• Support tender activities and facilitate handover meetings through all project stages.

Skills

MEP design management

Team leadership

Project planning

Communication skills

Job description

We're looking for a Senior Mechanical Design Manager to join our KME team on a major project in the Healthcare sector.

Location: Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.
Hours: Full Time, Permanent. Flexible working arrangements available.

We are unable to offercertificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

KME are an internal MEPself-delivery business within the Kier group, supporting Kier construction across the UK on complex andchallenging projects. As a Senior Mechanical Design Manager, you'll play a key role in managing design solutions that meet and exceed customer requirements while minimising risk and maximising value. This is an opportunity to work collaboratively with project teams, bringing your expertise to deliver successful outcomes on medium to large complex schemes.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Design Manager, you'll be working within the KME team, supporting them in delivering mechanical design solutions across a major project in the healthcare sector. Your day to day will include:

• Managing design and working drawing activities within agreed budgets and programmes
• Leading design safety reviews and ensuring CDM requirements are incorporated
• Overseeing internal and external design teams, ensuring quality, compliance and appropriate design solutions
• Building effective relationships with clients, project teams and stakeholders through clear communication
• Supporting tender activities and facilitating handover meetings through all project stages

What are we looking for?

This role of Senior Design Manager is great for you if:

• You have demonstrable experience as an MEP design manager working for a main contractor or Tier 1 MEP contractor
• You possess a strong technical understanding of MEPH services, systems and package interfaces
• You have proven experience in managing and leading teams to achieve multiple objectives
• You're a proactive problem solver with excellent organisational and planning skills
• You have strong interpersonal and presentation skills with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier #LI-AS2

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