Technical Manager

Dalkia; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering company seeks a Technical Manager to oversee project design and delivery. You will manage stakeholder relationships while ensuring technical compliance and coordination in a fast-paced environment. Ideal candidates will have a background in mechanical or electrical engineering, with significant experience in high-value MEP projects.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years in a design-related engineering role.
• Experience in managing project technical risks and compliance standards.
• Familiarity with MEP values between £5-50M.

Responsibilities

• Management of project technical risk.
• Ensure compliance with relevant Technical Standards and Regulations.
• Manage consultant design deliverables and programme.

Skills

Complex Engineering

Design Management

Collaboration

Communication

Education

BEng or Meng/MSc in Mechanical Engineering

Professional Registration with CIBSE, IET, IMechE

Job description

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Dalkia’s mission is to Succeed by delivering a better experience. Join us and you’ll shape more than just your career. Through our fresh thinking and agile working, we help our customers, communities, and our people to flourish.

Our values inform everything we do, guiding how we show up for each other and our clients.

• People first – It starts with health, safety and wellbeing.
• Better together – A collaborative team.
• Trusted partners – Dedicated to our client’s success.
• Taking responsibility – Making a positive difference.

The technical community supports Dalkia UK Engineering and Dalkia UK Group businesses across all sectors and parts of a project life cycle, providing a wealth of development and role opportunities.

Your role will see you collaboratively managing stakeholder relationships internally, such as bid teams, commercial teams and operational teams along with external stakeholder relationships such as clients, consultant partners, supply chain and manufacturers.

You are expected to follow corporate governance and process at all times and uphold the behaviours and values expected within Dalkia Engineering.

As a Technical manager you will manage the delivery of effective design and technical management across projects. You will provide a focus for and lead the pre-construction phase design processes. You will oversee the processes that enable the design and engineering to be challenged and interrogated within a collaborative team framework.

The project based role focuses on setting up projects technically and derisking them in the preconstruction phase to reduce onsite engineering and uncertainty in design and cost. You will provide support to the project teams and be responsible for ensuring the design is coordinated and technically complete with any outstanding issues closed out, instructed change and value engineering incorporated.

You will have a passion for complex engineering, design and collaboration and excellent communication skills.

Main responsibilities and key outcomes:

• Management of project technical risk.
• Ensures that designs are properly co-ordinated and communicated.
• Ensures compliance with relevant Technical Standards, Regulations, Industry norms, good practice, engineering system safety i.e. CDM, BSA, Approved documents etc
• Manages the design development and integration of value engineering.
• Manages consultant design deliverables and programme to align with Dalkias pricing, procurement, construction and BG6 deliverables
• Seeks value engineering opportunities and ensures the integration of those selected.
• Liaises closely with consultant design teams, Dalkia UK Digital engineers, project managers and project engineers.

Desired qualifications and experience:

Qualifications: BEng or Meng/MSc in mechanical engineering, Electrical Engineering or related building services degree

Professional Registration: Incorporated or Chartered status (or working towards) with CIBSE, IET, IMechE or other related institution.

Experience: minimum 5 years in design related engineering role

Project value: Experience of working on projects with £5-50M MEP value