Senior Mep Design Manager

Kier Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Kier Group's KME Design Management Team seeks a Senior MEP Design Manager to lead complex design work across major projects from tender to completion in London. You will manage internal and external design teams, ensure contracts and budgets, and drive CDM compliance, reporting monthly to stakeholders.

This is a flexible location, full-time role with a diverse portfolio across education, health, defence and commercial sectors.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an MEP design manager on large schemes.
• Experience delivering multiple medium/large complex schemes.
• Strong organisational and planning skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation abilities.
• Proactive problem solver and collaborative leader.

Responsibilities

• Manage internal and external design teams with clear scopes and contract alignment.
• Oversee design activities within budgets, programmes and quality.
• Lead design safety reviews and CDM compliance.
• Build relationships with clients and stakeholders with monthly reporting.
• Support tender activities and manage design changes with value engineering.

Skills

MEP design management

Team leadership

Communication skills

Microsoft Office

Project planning

Tools

MS Office

Job description

We're looking for a Senior MEP Design Manager to join our KME Design Management Team.

Location: London. Flexible on location.
Hours: Full Time. Flexible working available

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

As a Senior Design Manager, you'll play a pivotal role in supporting the delivery of profitable projects from tender through to completion. Working within our KME business, you'll manage design activities across multiple or large-scale schemes, ensuring solutions meet and exceed customer requirements. This is an exciting opportunity to work on complex projects ranging from £5m to £150m+ across various sectors including education, health, defence, and commercial. You'll be part of a supportive team that values collaboration, innovation, and professional development.

What will you be responsible for?

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

• Managing internal and external design teams, ensuring clear scopes and alignment with contract requirements
• Overseeing design activities to agreed budgets, programmes and quality standards
• Leading design safety reviews and ensuring CDM requirements are incorporated throughout
• Building effective relationships with clients, project teams and stakeholders, providing clear communication and monthly reporting
• Supporting tender activities, managing design change processes, and identifying opportunities for value engineering

What are we looking for?

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

• You're an experienced MEP design manager who has worked for a main or Tier 1 MEP contractor
• You have a strong technical understanding of MEPH services and experience delivering multiple medium or large complex schemes
• You're a proactive problem solver with excellent organisational and planning skills
• You have experience managing and leading teams to achieve multiple objectives in a collaborative way
• You're proficient in Microsoft Office and have excellent communication and presentation skills

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.