Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

3 days ago


Dartford, United Kingdom Owen Daniels Consultancy Full time

**Senior Mechanical Design Engineer - Dartford - £65,000**
**Purpose of the Job**
Reporting to the Operations Directors, this role is to be accountable for leading the Design Team and the Departments Workload, as well as managing and monitoring any external resource, whilst working closely with the Estimating and Operational teams. Theywill assist with evaluation and manage technical risk within the tender process, particularly with D&B Bids. Part of the role will be working with the estimating team to establish Value Engineering and supporting with the technical aspect of bids, as required.Enhance the current Design Department processes to create more efficiency, to maintain current Clientele base whilst creating further Client diversification and profitable workstreams, by introducing design solutions that focus on sustainability and Zero Carboninitiatives.
**Key Responsibilities:**:

- Working towards Managing a small team of Design Engineers and technicians / CAD engineers, being responsible for the quality and timeliness of work produced
- Interacts with the design team to co-ordinate the project and liaises with the Operational Team to ensure that all relevant considerations are incorporated
- Attend Site Scoping Surveys alone/with Operational Team and or the Estimating Team and where required assist with the production of Survey/Scope reports
- Prepares technical specifications and financial proposals for new work
- Assist with the Estimating Team with Tenders from a Design perspective
- Prepares and takes responsibility for concept and preliminary engineering solutions for detailed design within agreed budgets
- Manages ‘Risk’ within the design
- Production of detailed drawings, uploading to client’s portals with the required design information, plant schedules and registers
- Maintains thedesign register/tracker
- Plan internal resource and review external sub-contract designers as appropriate and manages these additional resources and ensure alignment with Process and Procedures.
- Ensure senior staff are kept informed of important and relevant service/design decisions and that the objectives of the client are achieved
- Develop further resilience within the Design Department.
- Always developing, supporting and enhancing their Brand.
- Key Stakeholder engagement.

**Skills and Behaviours**:

- Excellent Leadership skills and experience leading a Team
- Excellent client interfacing skills, able to attend site meetings and represent the company
- Excellent communication skills and ability to proactively interact with internal project management teams and staff.
- Commercially astute, able to anticipate issues that may affect the project and address them proactively
- Extremely strong technical attributes.
- The ability to manage out all elements of risk.
- ‘Can Do’ Attitude and a ‘want’ to Design within Budget and looking for alternative solutions and VE options for the Client
- Always looking at ESI’s and Sustainability
- An eye for detail and proven ability to work to tight deadlines
- Reliable and responsible, able to work competently on an independent basis
- Able to lead and mentor a small team independently
- Excellent presentational and communication skills.
- Strong intellect and desire to succeed. Focused on Quality and Profitability.
- Highly effective and inclusive management style who can get teams to collaborate.
- A capability to build good business relationships.
- An eye for detail and proven ability to work to tight deadlines.
- Proactive and persuasive with the skills to assess better systems of work in order to advise and assist clients on systems that will save time and money.

**Experience and Qualifications**:

- Preferably a member of CIBSE or equivalent, degree qualified, although significant relevant experience would be acceptable.
- Commercial, Residential and retail experience preferred
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience of building services design
- Fully proficient with all relevant design software
- Broad commercial knowledge and experience, preferably including fit-out, shell and core and infrastructure
- Mechanically biased, but experience of working on both mechanical and electrical projects would be beneficial
- Experience of working on at least one major prestigious project a distinct advantage.

**Personal Attributes**:

- Proven ability to work effectively, under pressure and always delivering a quality output with a broad range of stakeholders.
- To be able to act at a Senior Leadership level with all stakeholders.
- Desirable to be able to demonstrate a strong sense of corporate social responsibility,balancing the interests of stakeholders.



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