Electrical Design Manager
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Adam Smith
Benefits
Life assurance
Private medical insurance
Additional holiday purchase opportunities
Matched pension scheme up to 7.5%
Enhanced family leave & policies
Share plan schemes
Free health & wellbeing services
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Green car scheme
Electrical Design Manager
We're looking for an Electrical Design Manager to join our KME team on a major project in the Life Sciences sector.
Location: London. Harlow based for project delivery.
Hours: Flexibility on working pattern and hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.
As an Electrical Design Manager, you'll play a pivotal role in managing the design process for the Electrical side of a major project, ensuring they meet and exceed customer requirements. You'll work collaboratively with project management teams across Kier to deliver successful outcomes whilst maximising gross profit and customer satisfaction. KME is an internal MEP self-delivery business within the Kier group with over 50 years of experience, supporting projects ranging from £5m to £150m+.
What will you be responsible for?
As an Electrical Design Manager, you'll be working within the KME team, supporting them in delivering a complex and challenging project to the highest standard. Your day to day will include:
- Managing the design and working drawing activities to budget and programme, ensuring deliverables meet project requirements
- Leading design safety reviews and ensuring CDM requirements are incorporated into the design
- Managing internal and external design teams, establishing clear scopes and responsibilities
- Implementing BIM on projects and ensuring the project BIM Execution Plan is delivered
- Building effective relationships with clients and representing KME in a proactive and ethical manner
What are we looking for?
This role of Electrical Design Manager is great for you if:
- You have significant experience as an MEP design manager working for a main or Tier 1 MEP contractor
- You have demonstrable experience in delivering multiple medium schemes or large complex schemes
- You possess a strong technical understanding of MEPH services and their associated interfaces
- You have proven experience of managing and leading teams to achieve multiple objectives
- You're a proactive problem solver with excellent communication and presentation skills
We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.
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. You can see more information of benefits here.
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. You can see our D&I action plan here. 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 #LI-AS2
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Location: London
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Vacancy ID: 13093
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Background check: BPSS Checks
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Closing date: 27 Nov 2026
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Contract type: Permanent
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Working hours: Full Time
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Flexible working: Yes
Flexible working could include part time, job share, condensed hours, or flexible start/end times.
