Building Services Manager (Preconstruction)
We have an exciting opportunity to recruit a Building Services Manager to join our high-performing Preconstruction team in the Midlands. Willmott Dixon is driven by quality and customer service and to this day we remain family owned and take pride in our core values. Having the right talent, coupled with the right culture and values, ensures that we have a sustained future, a trusted brand, and offer a career of a lifetime! The successful Building Services Manager will manage the preconstruction phase through the tender and design development period and ensure the production of high-quality information and accurate costs. You will work alongside our Preconstruction team and carry out technical reviews of tender documents, liaise with the estimating team and adjust designs accordingly. You will also coordinate the supply chain and oversee all service handovers between the preconstruction and delivery team to ensure a technically and contractually compliant services tender. This is an exciting role which will see you working across several projects simultaneously. You will be based out of our Birmingham or Nottingham office but we also know that work isn't the only important aspect of your life so we are happy to support working from home on a hybrid basis.
Duties & Responsibilities include:
· Manage the complete qualitative, technical and commercial appraisal of building services tenders across the team, in conjunction with other team members.
· Identify equal and approved services solutions for inclusion in tenders.
· Ensure technical appraisals of the services design to ensure compliance on all projects.
· Design gap analysis (Building Services).
· Supply Chain Coordination.
· Attend meetings such as tender launch meeting, mid tender reviews/interview and tender adjudications.
· Oversee all service handovers between the preconstruction and delivery team to ensure a technically and contractually compliant services tender.
· Constantly reinforce and deliver our customer first ethic.
Essential and Desirable Criteria
Essential Criteria:
Appropriate CSCS card.
Valid driving licence.
Appropriate managerial experience in the services sector.
Understanding of all relevant M&E and services legislation.
Commercial acumen.
Proficient use of and Microsoft suite of Office programmes; inc. Excel, Word, Outlook.
A variety of M&E projects in a wide range of sectors.
Desirable Criteria:
Minimum relevant level 4 qualification (HNC / NVQ4 etc).
Design / Estimating experience.
Working towards MCIOB / CIBSE.
Additional Information
In return we offer: We reward our people generously with a competitive package that gives you flexible benefits to fit your lifestyle and priorities. This includes but is not limited to, an enhanced pension scheme, discounted or full private medical, life assurance, incentive bonus and a car scheme which will make us a market leader in sustainable company travel. Applicable roles will benefit from a motoring expenditure allowance (MEA) and everyone can access a new generation of low carbon and electric cars via the Willmott Dixon run car leasing scheme.
Willmott Dixon embraces diversity in the workplace and will consider flexible and agile working.
We are a disability confident employer.
About Us
With 170 years of rich history, Willmott Dixon's purpose beyond profit is to deliver brilliant buildings, transform lives, strengthen communities, and enhance the environment so our world is fit for future generations. Ensuring that we add lasting value to the neighbourhoods we work in; our values, people, innovation, partnerships and focus on sustainability has allowed us to build a successful and trusted privately owned business where our people can thrive.
Construction is changing and we are at the forefront of that change. Pioneering new ways to build, innovating the way construction is viewed and establishing ourselves as one of the top employers in any industry. It truly is an amazing company in one of the most exciting industries with a vast array of professional career paths.
Willmott Dixon was awarded No 1 in the Best "Big" Companies (2022) to work for and already holds the Times Top 50 Employers for Women 2022 and 2024, and is the first major contractor and developer to win a King's Award for Enterprise in the category of sustainable development