At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead MEP design projects and ensure top-notch quality and safety.
- Company: Join Bouygues UK, a global leader in innovative construction solutions.
- Benefits: Enjoy 26-30 days annual leave, private medical insurance, and a generous share scheme.
- Other info: Be part of a supportive culture that values respect, commitment, and innovation.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on diverse, challenging projects across the UK and beyond.
- Qualifications: Experience in MEP design and strong people management skills required.
The predicted salary is between 50000 - 65000 £ per year.
Location: Crawley, London, United Kingdom.
Contract: Permanent. Full-time, On-site.
About the Role
At Bouygues UK, we seek a MEP Design Manager to support our MEP Unbundled strategy. This approach reduces reliance on the external market supply, ensuring better quality, safety, and control over project timelines. Projects are based in London and the South East (Sussex). You will provide overall design and engineering leadership/management for the business region(s), with responsibility for the delivery of design information. Our MEP project values typically range from £5M to £130M, from prequalification to completion, with an emphasis on work‑winning and preconstruction.
Skills Profile
- Substantial experience collaborating with a main contractor or large subcontractor.
- Degrees in a relevant subject are preferable, but we also consider people qualified by experience.
- Substantial experience in MEP Design.
- Proven in‑depth technical knowledge of MEP/Building Services.
- Proven people‑management (including mentoring) experience of managing/developing teams.
- An effective analytical person.
- Initiative‑taking, with proven organisational ability and drive to meet deadlines.
- Client‑driven with effective communication skills.
- Advocate for Health and Safety.
- Commercially astute.
Main Accountabilities
- Member of the MEP Unbundled Strategy Core Team, contributing to strategic planning, business decisions, and overall performance of the business region.
- Ownership of key customer/consultant relationships, ensuring mutually positive outcomes where possible.
- Ownership and implementation of key activities and accountabilities for self and Engineering Management Team.
- Design & Engineering Management.
- Resource Management.
- Customer Management.
- Designers.
- Work Winning/Bid Management.
- Safety/Environment.
- Drive Zero Harm and exemplary health, safety, wellbeing, and environmental performance.
- Promote BYUK policies and Key Values and function as a role model in demonstrating behaviours.
- Regional Responsibility.
Why Bouygues
Our teams deploy technically innovative solutions for a diverse range of challenging projects throughout the UK, Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia. Day in day our teams deliver some of the most technically innovative and challenging projects across the UK and the world. With a strong corporate culture, our values reflect how we operate with Respect, Commitment, Pioneering, and Sharing. Bouygues UK is part of Bouygues Group, a diverse global business operating in construction, engineering, energy, media, and telecommunications markets. Operating in 80 countries, the group’s financial strength is a key differentiator.
Benefits
- 26 days annual leave, increasing to 30 days.
- 2 paid volunteering days a year.
- Pension scheme.
- Life insurance.
- Private medical insurance.
- Generous share scheme.
- BY Extra – opt into lifestyle benefits.
Equal Opportunity
We are an equal‑opportunity employer and encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of gender, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds, particularly those from under‑represented communities, to apply. Join us and bring your full self to the workplace.
MEP Design Manager in Crawley employer: Bouygues Construction SA
At Bouygues UK, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment in Crawley that fosters innovation and collaboration. Our commitment to employee growth is evident through extensive training opportunities and a strong emphasis on health and safety, ensuring that our team members thrive both personally and professionally. With generous benefits including up to 30 days of annual leave and a supportive corporate culture rooted in respect and commitment, we invite you to join us in delivering technically challenging projects across the UK and beyond.
