Senior Project Manager - Building Services

Role Overview

You will integrate with multi-disciplinary project teams throughout the project lifecycle—from procurement and construction through to completion and close-out.

Key responsibilities:

This role is responsible for oversight and management of the Building Services function, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, compliant M&E systems across the business unit or region.

The Senior Building Services Manager manages and mentors the Building Services team, and ensures that all construction operations adhere to safety, quality, and regulatory requirements. They drive continuous improvement in commissioning and handover processes, coordinate with commercial teams to manage cost control, value engineering, and potential disputes related to M&E scope, and review all major subcontractor technical submissions, samples, and mock-ups before client presentation.

The role further includes managing and maintaining key relationships with both internal and external stakeholders, including the client, design team, and supply chain at a strategic level.

They attend and contribute to executive-level reporting processes (e.g., Project in Delivery, or PID), communicate lessons learned to the projects and the wider business to enhance future performance, and ensure that appropriate, talented resources are available by actively recruiting and managing talent within the Building Services discipline.

Essential Credentials:

• Appropriate CSCS card for the role
• Preferably qualified with a degree in building services, or
• mechanical or electrical engineering, will consider relevant HNC or HND qualifications.
• Professional memberships; CIOB, RICS, CIBSE or similar

Desirable Credentials:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent. Recognised disciplines include Civil Engineering, Architecture, Quantity Surveying or similar building related studies.

Essential Skills:

• Leadership in developing and implementing M&E strategy.
• Highly developed ability to influence internal and external stakeholders

Essential Knowledge:

• Knowledge of design principles and experience in project delivery.
• Commercial and financial understanding in the above context ability to contribute to value engineering as part of the design process.

Essential Experience:

• Background in design, construction & delivery process including design management experience with a main contractor on Building Services packages above £30m in value.
• Sound knowledge of Construction methodology, process and sequence.
• Experience of User group interface and stakeholder engagement.

Desirable Experience:

• Experience in delivering NABERS, SMART, BREEAM, OUTSTANDING commercial-spec office buildings

Essential Behaviours:

• Established skills and traits in managing people to get the best out of them.
• Leadership.
• Motivational and proactive.
• Skill in managing disputes and finding solutions.

Desirable Behaviours:

Mentoring of junior staff