Principal Engineer in Liverpool

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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 C, 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 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.

Location: Salford / 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 Major Projects Team Lead, you'll be working within the Building Services team, overseeing and coordinating the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) design for large, complex construction projects, acting as the central point for technical excellence, team leadership, client liaison, and ensuring sustainable, compliant, and cost-effective design delivery from concept through to construction, bridging client needs with engineering reality.
• Supporting the Head of Service (Building Services) in the management of the business, working together with the Electrical and Mechanical 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 service line agreed targets.
• Delivering quality output and developing the team, effectively managing team utilisation levels, identifying and implementing necessary steps in 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 and capability of the team.
• Maintaining 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, bringing new business to the service line, developing new clients and winning work opportunities.

What are we looking for?

• This role of Major Projects Team Lead is great for you if:
• Chartered Engineer and member of CIBSE or IET, with a degree in Mechanical Building Services or Electrical Engineering plus significant experience demonstrating the capability to fulfil the accountabilities of the role.
• Managing and driving a multi-discipline technical and engineering team with a proven track record of driving sustainable performance against challenging business targets.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts into more readily understood information suitable for a wider business audience, an understanding of 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.

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.

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.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.