Senior 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
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Senior Electrical Design Manager
We're looking for a Senior Electrical Design Manager to join our KME team delivering a major project in the Healthcare sector.
Location: Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.
Hours: Full Time, Permanent - some flexibility on 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.
Join KME, an internal MEP self-delivery business within the Kier group, supporting Kier Construction across the UK on complex and challenging projects ranging from £5m to £150m+. As an Electrical Design Manager, you'll play a key role in managing design activities on multiple or large schemes, working collaboratively with project management teams to deliver successful outcomes that meet and exceed customer expectations.
What will you be responsible for?
As an Electrical Design Manager, you'll be working within the KME team, supporting them in delivering profitable projects safely, on time and to the required quality. Your day to day will include:
- Managing design and working drawing activities within agreed budgets and programmes, ensuring compliance with CDM requirements
- Leading and managing internal and external design teams, ensuring clear scopes and alignment with contract requirements
- Overseeing technical quality, compliance and appropriateness of design solutions, implementing agreed checking and QA processes
- Building effective relationships with clients and communicating project design status through clear, accurate reporting
- Supporting the implementation of BIM on projects and facilitating handover meetings through all stages from inception to construction
What are we looking for?
This role of Senior 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 proven experience in delivering multiple medium schemes or large complex schemes
- You have a strong technical understanding of MEPH services, components and system interfaces, particularly on the Electrical side.
- You have demonstrable experience of managing and leading teams to achieve multiple objectives and procure high risk packages
- You're a proactive problem solver with excellent interpersonal and presentational skills, proficient in Microsoft Office and able to communicate clearly both externally and internally
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: Huntingdon
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Vacancy ID: 13102
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Background check: None
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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.
