Building and Services Design Lead

At Mace, our purpose is to redefine the boundaries of ambition. We believe in creating places that are responsible, bringing transformative impact to our people, communities, and societies across the globe. To learn more about our purpose, culture and priorities, visit our strategy site.

Within our consult business, we harness our unique combination of leading-edge practical expertise and project delivery consultancy to unlock the potential in every project.

Our values shape the way we consult and define the people we want to join us on our journey, they are:
Safety first - Going home safe and well:

- You will be a leading advocate of Mace's value of safety first, and be accountable for leading and maintaining exceptional safety, quality, cost, programme, sustainability and project compliance standards.
- You will possess advanced technical expertise in local health and safety rules and regulations relevant to project portfolio.
- You will champion a diverse and inclusive working environment, and understand the importance of the wellbeing of the people you manage.

Client focus - Deliver on our promise:

- You will ensure the successful delivery of key assignments and defined business areas, providing strategic direction and monitoring delivery aligned with overall vision and objectives.
- You will be responsible for implementing appropriate programme delivery environments, including people, organisation, process, information and technology
- You will promote and influence quality and service excellence in all conversations and programme interactions.
- Responsible for driving proactive performance management of building and services (B&S) design delivery and maturation based on partner supplied data.
- Ensure detailed cost/schedule variance analysis is provided by the B&S partner together with recovery plans/mitigation and/or escalations where necessary.
- Review design delivery at regular progress reviews; capturing quantitative performance issues and summary escalations to inform IPPR.
- Working within the programme level reporting drumbeat develop a revised project drumbeat, to drive enhanced focus on schedule adherence at a control account level and embed active risk management and mitigations.
- Develop a bottom-up driven reporting system that captures necessary achievements, escalations, issues etc. at a control account level that subsequently supports the onward integrated project weekly report, IPPR & PMO.
- Continually facilitate engagement, communication and commitment across the partnership to establish a fully integrated design delivery team.
- Provide constructive challenge, where appropriate, on design outputs to ensure they meet project schedule and cost requirements.
- Ensure client interfaces support the overall design delivery, particularly ensuring client project engineering manager engagement and alignment as required.
- Identify and escalate any issue reported through escalation from the technical governance that threatens schedule and cost requirements.
- Collectively drive change to establish schedule stability/adherence and delivery to schedule.

Integrity - Always do the right thing:

- You will be responsible for project budgets and ensure operations are fiscally and ethically viable, and meet organisational and legislative compliance obligations.
- You will support the Operations Director and other senior stakeholders to directly influence long term development of strategy for a function or Business Unit (BU), creating a sustainable business future.
- You will commit to making a positive impact for our people, our clients, and our planet, and take ownership for holding others to account who do not uphold the Mace values.

Create opportunity - For our people to excel:

- You will lead your team effectively and develop others to reach their full potential.
- You will actively network, innovate, and seek understanding of best practice, utilising the full depth of knowledge of Mace group, the centres of excellence, Mace way control centre and knowledge hub.
- You will collaborate with multiple internal and external stakeholders, up to C-Suite, to implement and manage our programmes.

You’ll need to have:

- Time served Apprenticeship in a Mechanical or Electrical discipline.
- ONC/HNC in Building Services and/or Electrical or Mechanical Services
- Qualified to a degree level or equivalent and membership of appropriate professional body.
- Have excellent communication skills (including presentation skills) in English, both written and verbal, management, and organisational skills.
- Ability to plan ahead, manage the work time frames and report to Project level.
- A good working knowledge of the Health and Safety regulations and other relevant legislation.
- Excellent organisation and people management/ team building skills.
- Have a working understanding of NEC form of contract.
- Previously SQEP assessed for nuclear engineering/design/PM roles is desirable.
- Experience in nuclear