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
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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