Principal Engineer

Kier Group plc; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering consultancy is seeking an M&E Design Team Lead based in Gerrards Cross/Speke. This role involves managing engineers and overseeing the design and delivery of building services like HVAC, lighting, and power systems. The ideal candidate will be a Chartered Engineer with a degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, with experience in the road tunnel industry. The position offers substantial benefits including competitive holidays and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Matched pension scheme

Annual holiday entitlement

Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans

Qualifications

• Significant knowledge of the road tunnel industry.
• Experience with quality procedures and document control.
• Ability to meet BPSS requirements.

Responsibilities

• Manage engineers and oversee design delivery of building services.
• Develop client relationships and manage team performance.
• Set standards for quality of product delivery.
• Communicate effectively with management about progress and risks.
• Support business development through bid submissions and client meetings.

Skills

Chartered Engineer

Communication of technical concepts

Quality control in engineering design

Education

Degree in Mechanical Building Services or Electrical Engineering

Job description

We're looking for an M&E Design Team Lead to join our Design team based in Gerrards Cross / Speke. Kier Design are a top‑25 engineering consultancy, delivering a wide range of services across all sectors of the built environment, providing construction‑focused, innovative and sustainable solutions. We have preferential access to Kier's £11bn+ project pipeline, including mega projects like High Speed 2 and Hinkley Point ngoba, frameworks with national and local government and other public bodies, and a range of other interesting projects in every sector of the built environment.

We believe in building teams around our people, rather than squeezing people into our teams. We want to help you carve_pwm out a role in which you'll grow and thrive for many years to come. Offering market‑leading development opportunities, supporting our graduates through the early stages of their careers, enabling our people to become professionally qualified, providing management training and qualifications, and supporting ongoing technical development throughout our people's careers. Actively promoting, so you can keep pushing and stretching yourself. Within this role, you can enjoy competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy leave, a fantastic, matched pension scheme, a share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans and even more.

Location

Gerrards Cross / Speke

Hours

40 hours per week – some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

What will you be responsible for?

As M&E Design Team Lead, you'll be working within the Mechanical Electrical and Technology team, managing engineers, overseeing the design and delivery of building services like HVAC, lighting, and power systems, ensuring technical quality, compliance and coordination with architects and project managers for complex construction projects, combining leadership, technical expertise, and project oversight.

Your day‑to‑day will include:

• Supporting the Head of Service in the management of the business delivered through the team based in Liverpool, working together with the Electrical, Mechanical and Tunnels Team leaders coordinating solutions for all allocated works, including major and minor new builds, refurbishments and minor works.
• Developing and maintaining strategic and key client relationships with internal and external clients managing utilisation and achieving monthly and annual metrics for the teams within the service line agreed targets, delivering quality output and maintaining team development, effectively managing team utilisation levels, identifying facilmente implementing necessary steps, balancing team capabilities and resource levels with available workload.
• Setting, monitoring and maintaining standards for quality of product delivery, aligning all aspects of delivery to standard industry practices, overseeing designs and advice including feasibility, multi‑stage designs, and condition reports, liaising with other teams within Kier both within own discipline and other disciplines over all matters requiring coordination to achieve effective delivery.
• Maintaining programme of CPD events to retain up‑to‑date competence / capability of the team, championing effective and regular communication to management on all matters affecting output, progress, cost and risks.
• Playing an active part in business development, including production of fees and quality responses supporting bid submissions, preparation of presentation materials, attendance at interviews and client meetings.

What are we looking for?

• Chartered Engineer and member of CIBSE or IET, with a Degree in Mechanical Building Services or Electrical Engineering plus, significant knowledge of the road tunnel industry.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts into more readily understood information suitable for a wider business audience, experience in the application of quality procedures and document control in engineering design.
• Ability to pass the BPSS (Baseline Personnel Security Standard) requirements.

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.

We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier.

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