M&E Manager

Mechanical & Electrical Technical Services ManagerMain Contractor | Regional Role | Excellent Salary & Package

Salary: Highly Competitive + Car Allowance + Benefits Location: Flexible / Regional Projects Immediate Opportunity

Are you an experienced M&E professional looking for a role where you can genuinely influence project outcomes, reduce risk and add value across an established construction business?

Our client is a successful and growing main contractor with an excellent reputation for delivering high-quality projects across multiple sectors. As part of their continued growth, they are looking to appoint a Mechanical & Electrical Technical Services Manager to provide technical leadership and oversight across both pre-construction and live projects.

This is a business-critical position that requires a commercially aware and technically strong M&E professional who can support project teams from tender stage through to final account, ensuring the highest standards of technical compliance, programme management and project delivery.

Reporting directly to the senior leadership team, you will be responsible for providing technical expertise across all mechanical and electrical aspects of the business.

You will work closely with estimating, commercial, design and operational teams, reviewing opportunities and risks during tender stages while supporting project delivery teams throughout construction.

The successful candidate will be viewed as the business''s M&E specialist, providing practical solutions, identifying potential issues before they arise and ensuring subcontractor performance meets the company''s expectations.

• Review tender documentation and identify M&E-related risks and opportunities
• Assess project requirements and advise on the most suitable supply chain partners
• Support estimating teams through the tender process
• Review subcontractor quotations to ensure compliance and identify omissions or risks
• Attend tender interviews on projects with significant M&E packages
• Ensure tender submissions are technically robust and fully coordinated from an M&E perspective
• Provide advice on buildability, procurement strategies and technical solutions

• Support commercial teams with M&E procurement and subcontract package reviews
• Ensure subcontractor appointments reflect tender allowances and scope requirements
• Provide technical support to Project Managers, Quantity Surveyors and site teams
• Attend design and coordination meetings where required
• Support Design Managers with technical reviews and specialist input
• Review technical submissions, RFIs, drawings and installation proposals
• Regularly visit projects to monitor progress and identify potential delivery issues
• Assist site teams with statutory utility and service coordination
• Monitor commissioning programmes and ensure adequate time is allocated within project schedules
• Identify programme risks and advise project teams on mitigation strategies
• Provide technical support on complex final account negotiations and commercial matters

• Minimum 10 years'' Mechanical & Electrical experience
• Ideally mechanically biased with experience gained through either a main contractor or specialist M&E subcontractor
• HNC or HND qualified in Building Services Engineering or a related discipline
• Strong technical understanding of both mechanical and electrical building services
• Experience supporting projects through both pre-construction and delivery phases
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Commercially aware with the ability to identify and mitigate contractual and operational risks
• Proactive, approachable and solutions-focused
• Comfortable influencing teams and driving best practice across multiple projects

• Competitive basic salary
• Car allowance
• Pension scheme
• Private healthcare
• Bonus opportunity
• Long-term career progression
• Key position within a growing and successful contractor
• Opportunity to shape M&E delivery standards across the business

This is an outstanding opportunity for an experienced M&E professional seeking a strategic role with genuine influence across a respected main contractor''s operations.

If you have the technical expertise, commercial awareness and proactive approach required to add real value, we''d love to hear from you.

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We act as an Employment Agency/Business with regards to this vacancy. As an Equal Opportunities employer we welcome applications regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, disability or age. All applicants are considered on the basis of their merits and abilities for the job.