Building Services Manager, Welwyn Garden City

Location: Welwyn Garden City

Project Based/Office Based, with flexibility for occasional remote working.

We are looking for an experienced and talented Building Services Manager to manage the building services delivery projects in progress within the Northern Home Counties Business.

About Morgan Sindall:

Morgan Sindall Construction is an Investors in People Platinum employer providing national construction services to private and public sector customers across a range of markets. Together, we create great results for our customers, partners, and people. We are one of the UK’s most successful Tier 1 contractors. As a progressive and ambitious company, our employees benefit from a safe and rewarding working environment.

About the role:

• Establish, maintain, and manage effective relationships with Designers and consultants through the design process, working with the design manager to ensure the project is correctly scoped, managed, and priced.
• Provide a professional, comprehensive, and sustainable design service for the customer and key partners and suppliers in delivery stages.
• Manage and coordinate safely the MEP integration in the build.
• Ensure completion and compliance of departmental procedures during delivery stages.
• Involvement with ‘design strategy’ and approach.
• Review and professionally provide commentary to the expected technical excellence on design information, reports, calculations, and drawings.
• Ensure adherence to the design brief/scope of service and develop a comprehensive scope of service for key stages of the project.
• Be involved in all design reviews and coordination meetings.
• Ensure fully coordinated design strategy is in place and work closely with discipline lead designers to deliver coordinated design solutions.
• Monitor progress against programme, and report to the project team lead.
• Establish the need for and input into general design reviews.
• Ensure that design is developed in line with commercial and construction requirements and the cost plan budget allowances.
• Ensure that the design fully accords with the defined specifications as detailed within the work package control document or subcontract documents as appropriate.
• Coordinate the activities of the statutory bodies (for example local authority building control) in line with programme critical dates.
• Ensure the design process recognises compliancy issues, current legislation, standards, and codes of practice, advising change where applicable.
• Coordinate change control system and ensure changes are accounted for, authorised, and implemented, as necessary, with the project manager and customer.
• Assist Commercial team in reviewing Changes.

Ideally you will have:

• A full understanding of detailed M&E procedures and will have a good level of technical and professional expertise.
• Significant experience in the main contracting market with experience of working on Healthcare, Education, Leisure, New Build, and Refurbishment schemes between £10 million - £90 million.
• Good understanding of Design and Design process.
• Good understanding of Quality management and Commissioning.

What are we looking for?

As an experienced Building Services Manager, you will be ONC/HNC – Level 5-6 NVQ qualified and a member of an industry recognised professional institute for example IET/CIBSE. Involvement with design strategy and approach is essential. Experience on varying procurement routes, managing subcontractors, and quality management is required. To thrive in our business, you should share our passion for the project at hand and enjoy working in an inclusive and hardworking team environment.

At Morgan Sindall Construction our employees work collectively, encouraging and challenging each other to succeed.

What can we offer you?

Working in our Northern Home Counties, you will be part of a growing and dynamic team of people who are passionate about what they do and enjoy the challenge and pace of work in a hardworking and fun construction environment. No day will be the same and we challenge each other to deliver what’s right for our customers. Our culture is so important to us and defines the way we go about our business. We are inclusive, supportive, and team-focused and take pride in the longstanding and committed relationships we have with our supply chain partners. Our culture places a huge amount of trust in our team – we all know what is expected of us and we are committed to delivering as individuals and as a team.

Equality Statement:

Morgan Sindall Construction seeks to recruit the best person for each of our roles, based on merit alone and free from bias. We’re committed to treating all our job applicants fairly and with respect, irrespective of their background, disability, or any other protected characteristic. We recruit individuals who embody our core values of professionalism, expertise, and trust which has given us a fantastic variety of people and cultures across our organisation. Morgan Sindall Construction are committed to collaborating with skilled and dedicated people; we recognise that valuable experience is gained outside of the industry. We are welcoming and fully supportive of Veteran and Service Leaver applicants for all roles within the business. We celebrate our diverse teams who make Morgan Sindall Construction the inclusive, collaborative, and rewarding place it is to work.

Diversity and Inclusion Statement:

Our aim is to create a workplace built on acceptance, respect, and inclusion, where everyone feels that they belong and can make a meaningful contribution. We encourage applicants regardless of religion, ethnicity, nationality, disability status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family, or parental status. Morgan Sindall Construction is an equal opportunities employer and has been accredited with the Positive About Disabled People ‘Two Ticks’ accreditation. We are also an Investors in People company. Morgan Sindall is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK. In the recruitment process, all applicants are required to provide the necessary right to work information and documentation. Our recruitment process should be accessible to all. If you need any assistance or accommodation during the recruitment process, please email.