Senior MEP Design Manager (Hiring Immediately)

We're looking for a Senior MEP Design Manager to join our KME Design Management Team.
Flexible on location.
Hours: Full Time. Flexible working available
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.
As a Senior Design Manager, you'll be working within the KME team, supporting them in delivering complex MEP design solutions across major projects. 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
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're a proactive problem solver with excellent organisational and planning skills
You're proficient in Microsoft Office and have excellent communication and presentation skills
So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.
Diversity and inclusion
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. 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.