Main 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.
The Role
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.
Key Responsibilities
Pre-Construction
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
Project Delivery
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
About You
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
What's on Offer?
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
Apply Now
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.
Mechanical & Electrical Technical Services Manager | MEP Manager | Building Services Manager | Technical Services Manager | Main Contractor | Construction Jobs
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
Salary description
£80000.00 - £100000.00 per year