Building Services Manager

Building Services Manager

Location: Catterick Garrison
Contract: 12 months
Employment: PAYE only

We are currently recruiting for an experienced Building Services Manager to join a major construction project at Catterick Garrison on an initial 12-month contract.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced MEP professional to take a lead role in the delivery of building services across a complex project, with responsibility spanning pre-construction, design, procurement, installation, testing, commissioning and handover.

The Role

As Building Services Manager, you will take ownership of the building-services delivery strategy and work closely with project, design, commercial and supply-chain teams to ensure MEP works are delivered safely, efficiently and to the required quality, programme and compliance standards.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Reviewing tender and project information to identify MEP risks, opportunities, capability and resource requirements.
• Leading building-services inputs into project strategy, including design deliverables, procurement, programme and commissioning.
• Coordinating mechanical and electrical design, procurement, installation, testing and commissioning activities.
• Managing building-services programmes and mitigating the impact of resequencing, acceleration and late information.
• Working closely with design and commercial teams to align scopes, fees, design responsibilities and risk allowances.
• Reviewing buildability and driving value engineering and effective risk mitigation.
• Coordinating multidisciplinary teams, specialist subcontractors and supply-chain partners.
• Supporting Principal Contractor duties and ensuring relevant duty holders understand their responsibilities.
• Ensuring appropriate mechanical and electrical safe systems of work, energisation readiness and live-working controls are in place.
• Implementing and monitoring QMP, ITP, RAMS and Testing & Commissioning Plan requirements.
• Ensuring inspections, witnessing, certification, commissioning records, as-builts and snagging are completed ahead of handover.
• Supporting delivery of O&M manuals, end-user training, seasonal commissioning and aftercare requirements.
• Providing clear progress reporting and maintaining strong communication with project stakeholders.
• Challenging unsafe practices and unresolved technical or compliance risks.
• Driving right-first-time delivery, continuous improvement and successful project outcomes.

About You

We are looking for an experienced Building Services Manager with a proven track record of delivering medium-sized or moderately complex projects from pre-construction through to completion and handover.

You will ideally have:

• Strong experience in building services / MEP project delivery.
• A background managing both mechanical and electrical building-services packages.
• Experience working through the full project lifecycle.
• Strong understanding of design management, procurement, installation, commissioning and handover.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary teams and specialist supply-chain partners.
• Good knowledge of construction health & safety, CDM and duty-holder responsibilities.
• Strong understanding of quality assurance, inspection and testing and commissioning requirements.
• Excellent programme, coordination and project-control skills.
• The ability to engage confidently with clients, consultants, subcontractors and internal project teams.
• Strong commercial and risk awareness with the ability to identify opportunities as well as mitigate risk.
• Excellent communication, leadership and problem-solving skills.

This role would suit a Building Services Manager who is already operating at a strong project level and is looking to take on a significant delivery challenge, or someone demonstrating readiness to progress towards Senior Building Services Manager responsibilities.

Additional Information

• 12-month contract
• Catterick Garrison
• PAYE engagement only
• No security clearance required prior to starting
• Candidates will be required to complete BPSS once on site, including a DBS check

If you are an experienced Building Services Manager with the relevant MEP project-delivery background and are interested in a 12-month opportunity at Catterick Garrison, please apply with your latest CV for consideration.