Senior Building Services Manager
Location: Bromsgrove
Full Details:
Our Midlands region is looking to appoint a Senior Building Services Manager to take responsibility for ensuring efficiency, quality and affordability across the design, installation, commissioning, and maintenance of all mechanical, electrical and public health systems, essential to the success of a project.
Managing the efforts of our subcontractors, you’ll ensure all works are fully coordinated and delivered in accordance with the contract programme and be able to demonstrate a previous proven track record of managing project risks, ensuring that appropriate measures are taken to mitigate those risks.
Key responsibilities include:
- Reviewing installation plans and specifications to ensure that they deliver what the building/client needs.
- Advising the design team on the co-ordination of services within the overall building design, for example, advice on how much space is needed above the ceilings to accommodate ventilation systems and other services.
- Close out design assumptions, design opportunities (VE), design risks (HSE/CDM) made during the early stages of the design and or tender process.
- Manage the submission and timely approval of all reviewable design data.
- Assist in the commercial and technical review of specialist subcontract tender returns, establish interfaces and review alternative design.
- Prepare technical submissions for alternative designs, system, component, product and or material proposals for client approval.
- Testing and checking installations.
- Making sure jobs meet building regulations and health and safety requirements.
- Attending meetings and presenting ideas and progress reports to managers and clients.
- Advising clients on how the building services will operate once the building is complete.
- Helping to protect the environment by keeping energy wastage to a minimum within the building services.
- Provide technical support to the onsite construction activities in order to maintain quality benchmarks.
- Assist the Design Manager in the discharge of the Design Managers Specific Tasks and responsibilities.
The person:
- Qualified in mechanical and/or electrical disciplines.
- Previous experience as a senior building services manager you have a full understanding of detailed M&E procedures with good level of technical and professional expertise.
- You will have the ability to understand and review M&E designs, installation, and commissioning programme.
- Experience of working on Healthcare, Educational, or leisure schemes between £10 and £50 million working as part of larger delivery teams.
- Strong communication, interpersonal and presentation skills with the ability to influence an audience.
- Proven building services management skills, ideally within a Tier 1 contractor environment or large M&E subcontractor.
- A good team player and communicator who is able to work with all levels of the organisation.
Essential and Desirable Criteria
You will need proven experience of:
- Exceptional leadership skills
- Excellent time management skills
- Communication skills
- A technical understanding of complex construction schemes
- Experience of delivering outstanding customer and stakeholder service and management
Desirable skills:
- A construction related degree
- CIBSE membership or equivalent building services related
- Experience of working on a variety of mid to large construction projects
We are VINCI Building
Operating from our network of offices throughout England and Wales, VINCI Building delivers new build, refurbishment and associated fitout works, with particular expertise in the education, healthcare, industrial, air, retail, commercial and mixed-use sectors.
We focus on technical excellence and experience to sustainably deliver best value for our clients. We understand and respond to the challenges of the modern built environment.
Our goal is always to build strong partnerships with our customers and stakeholders to ensure success by unlocking your strategic vision and turning it into a deliverable scheme. We are active in a wide range of sectors and value bands, allowing us to provide a regional service with national resources.
VINCI Building delivers complex projects and programmes, blending our corporate stability with the local knowledge our teams offer.
Sustainability is at the heart of our approach, and we are committed to respecting and protecting the environment in everything that we do. We take the time to understand and make a positive difference to each community that we work in to ensure that our projects leave a lasting legacy.
Fairness, Inclusion and Respect (FIR) at VINCI Building is about recognising and celebrating each other’s differences and what they bring to the team. Harnessing this diversity and applying the experiences, abilities and unique qualities of individuals will enhance our business; therefore, we commit to equity of opportunity and fair treatment of all current and potential employees and encourage job applications from all.
Should you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the application process, please contact us directly.
VINCI Building recognises the importance of helping our employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements across many of our roles which include working from home to enable employees to balance their working life with other priorities.