This Mechanical Design Manager role is a LOCAL role based in Nottingham with excellent perks and benefits.

The role will cover Nottingham and surrounding areas, ensuring you are always working within a manageable distance from your home.

This is ideal for someone looking to avoid extensive travel and long commutes, making it perfect if you want to maximize your work-life balance.

You will be joining a well-established nationwide M&E contractor with additional FM and Fire and Security divisions. The company's work primarily involves Design & Build projects, focusing on logistics facilities, with expertise also in education, leisure, office facilities, and manufacturing.

On site, you will be responsible for overseeing the mechanical design process, from pre-tender to post-tender stages. This includes liaising with clients, developing tender opportunities, managing the tender process, and ensuring the delivery of efficient and effective design solutions.

Pre-Tender Period:

• Liaise with Commercial Director and other directors/managers about future tender opportunities.
• Develop tender opportunities with existing and new clients.
• Assist clients with budget costs and high-level schemes, advising on different options.
• Develop design briefs/specifications with clients.
• Assess the suitability of tender opportunities based on various factors, including project type, client, value, and location.

Tender/Post-Tender Period:

• Manage the tender process and deliverables with the Commercial Director and estimators.
• Assess tender information and manage RFIs, including client liaison.
• Develop principal design elements/systems for D&B tenders.
• Produce 2-stage tender reports and submissions, ensuring quality and timely delivery.
• Liaise with the Contracts Director for input on programming.
• Prepare for and attend mid-tender interviews as required.
• Adjudicate final tender design and costings with the estimator and Contracts Director.
• Manage the post-tender process, including queries, addendums, and technical appraisals.

Design Delivery:

• Ensure an efficient and effective handover between estimating and design.
• Set up the contract design process, deliverables, and management with design engineers.
• Develop any beneficial value engineering (VE).
• Liaise and coordinate with electrical designers.
• Monitor design progress and oversee design and drawing production.
• Attend design team meetings with the client team.
• Ensure necessary builder's work details are provided on time.
• Lead services coordination with the building fabric and other services.
• Ensure compliance with statutory requirements, including Part L and EPC.
• Monitor estimation design against actual design.
• Manage design variations instigated by the client team and advise on cost and effect.
• Ensure an efficient and effective handover between design and contracting departments.

Other Associated Duties:

• Survey existing sites and systems, developing upgrade schemes and reports.
• Solve any client design and pricing issues pre or post-contract.
• Approve any changes to design drawings proposed by the contracting team.
• Assist in design changes during the contract period due to client changes.
• Agree on subcontract design order content prior to placing orders and sign off subcontract design and estimation invoices.

Benefits:

• Annual company bonus up to 10% of salary, paid every September
• Company vehicle or car allowance
• Long-term client relationships and negotiated contracts

The salary for this role is up to £60,000, with additional benefits, including a company vehicle or car allowance. This role is perfect for someone looking to join a dynamic team with manageable workloads and opportunities for career growth.

For more information, please call or send an email/CV, and we will contact you with more details.