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Design Manager - Building Services

Hays 🇬🇧 Leigh, Dorset, England, United Kingdom

Onsite $70,000 - $90,000 Full-time Senior

Lead and coordinate building services design from tender and pre-construction through installation, commissioning, and handover, ensuring designs are compliant, safe, coordinated, buildable, and aligned with cost and programme requirements. Manage design information, risks, reviews, changes, stakeholder coordination, technical queries, commissioning requirements, and progress reporting.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and coordinate building services design from tender and pre-construction through installation, commissioning, and handover, ensuring designs are compliant, safe, coordinated, buildable, and aligned with cost and programme requirements. Manage design information, risks, reviews, changes, stakeholder coordination, technical queries, commissioning requirements, and progress reporting.

Requirements

  • Candidates should have experience as a Design Manager or M&E/Building Services Design Manager, with a strong mechanical and electrical building services background and experience managing design through commissioning and handover. They should be skilled in design coordination, compliance, buildability, change control, clash detection, document control, reporting, and communicating with consultants, subcontractors, clients, and project teams.

Benefits

  • 25 Days' Annual Leave
  • Bank Holidays
  • Birthday Off
  • Company Pension Scheme
  • Performance-Related Bonus
  • Private Healthcare
  • Career Development and Progression Opportunities

Key Skills

Building services design management Mechanical engineering Electrical engineering Design coordination Compliance and safety standards Buildability assessment Cost and programme alignment Risk management Change control Clash detection Document control Stakeholder communication Commissioning processes Progress reporting Cross‑functional collaboration

About Hays

At Hays, we believe that the right job can transform a person's life - and the right person can transform a business. From career‑defining opportunities to complex workforce strategies, we connect ambition with opportunity - helping people and organisations reimagine what’s possible. Every year we place over 200,000 professionals into new roles. Whether it’s a permanent role or a temporary contract, our specialist consultants provide tailored advice and market intelligence to accelerate careers, from emerging talent to executive leadership. For organisations, our expert teams build recruitment and workforce solutions shaped by real-time market insights, local expertise and the scale of a world leading specialist in white collar hiring. With operations in 30 countries, over 200 offices and 9,500 colleagues worldwide, we fill around 1,000 roles every working day. The future of work isn’t something we’re waiting for.  We’re creating it every day.

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