Modular Prefabrication Engineer

  • Michael Taylor Search & Selection
  • City, London
  • 24/08/2026
Full time Construction

Job Description

The DfMA Engineer is an integral member of the DfMA team, providing technical support across both bid stage activities and live project delivery. The role contributes throughout the project lifecycle by developing, assessing and optimising modular MEP solutions that drive efficiency, value, buildability and sustainability.

Working on multiple projects at any one time, the successful candidate will maintain clear, consistent and pro-active communication with all project stakeholders to ensure alignment at every stage of the process.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Provide technical support to the wider pre-construction and bid teams

Review project information, drawings, reports and specifications to identify optimal modular opportunities

Prepare and raise RFIs to clarify project requirements and remove ambiguity

Develop and strategize modular solutions aligned with project constraints and client objectives

Produce costings for DfMA strategies in collaboration with estimating and bid-support teams.

Challenge conventional thinking and propose creative, value driven modular concepts

Review and feed into structural, architectural and MEP consultant designs to enable efficient and optimal modular installations.

Review, comment on and provide guidance for modular framework designs

Produce technical submissions that support project approvals and compliance requirements

Prepare structural analysis information packs to support design validation

Review structural analysis outputs and provide comment

Maintain an awareness of steelwork sizing, material availability and cost implications

Review turnkey package designs to ensure alignment with DfMA strategies and project principles

Ensure clear communication and information flow between all parties involved in module design, manufacture and installation

Raise lessons learned

Review module installations inline with structural verification reports to ensure compliance

Interface management throughout entire process