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Design Manager

Skilled Careers 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom

$70,000 - $95,000 Full-time Manager

Manage and coordinate mechanical and electrical design packages across a large, multi-phase development, ensuring designs meet the brief, comply with regulations, and stay on programme. Review technical information, coordinate project stakeholders, resolve design risks, support value engineering, and provide technical oversight through procurement, construction, and handover.

Responsibilities

  • Manage and coordinate mechanical and electrical design packages across a large, multi-phase development, ensuring designs meet the brief, comply with regulations, and stay on programme. Review technical information, coordinate project stakeholders, resolve design risks, support value engineering, and provide technical oversight through procurement, construction, and handover.

Requirements

  • Candidates should have experience in a building services consultancy or contracting environment and a proven record delivering both mechanical and electrical packages, ideally on residential or mixed-use developments. Strong design-team and stakeholder coordination, communication, and problem-solving skills are required; a relevant building services engineering degree or equivalent is desirable, as is a full UK driving licence.

Benefits

  • Car Allowance
  • Long-Term Career Progression

Key Skills

Design leadership Mechanical design Electrical design Building services engineering Project coordination Regulatory compliance Stakeholder management Risk resolution Value engineering Technical oversight Procurement coordination Construction handover AutoCAD Revit SolidWorks Problem solving Communication Team coordination Leadership Organisational skills Driving licence (UK) Consultancy processes Client liaison Technical documentation Design review

About Skilled Careers

Placing People First. Skilled Careers is a specialist recruitment and workforce solutions partner for the construction, engineering and property sectors across the UK and UAE. We help employers find exceptional talent through permanent recruitment, contract & freelance staffing, executive search, project mobilisation, RPO and managed services. At the same time, we connect skilled professionals with leading employers and career-defining opportunities. Our expertise spans Construction, Engineering, Property, Trades & Labour, Facilities Management and Gas. Built on trust, accountability, collaboration and excellence, we're committed to helping businesses grow, careers thrive and communities prosper through the power of great people. Building careers. Strengthening communities. Shaping the future of the built environment.

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