M&E Design Manager in Hatfield, Hertfordshire

£70,000-£95,000 + Team Performance Bonus
Full-Time | 7:30am-4:30pm

We're recruiting an ambitious Design Principal for a growing engineering business delivering technical design solutions for building services projects.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Building Services Design Engineer or Design Manager looking to take the next step into departmental leadership.

You'll take responsibility for coordinating the design department, managing project workloads and ensuring high-quality design packages are delivered on time and within budget.

This is a development opportunity for someone ready to step into leadership, rather than an established senior director.

• Lead and coordinate the day-to-day activities of the design department

• Manage the delivery of accurate, high-quality engineering design packages

• Work closely with Project Consultants to establish client requirements, budgets and project constraints

• Agree design scopes and allocate tasks across the team

• Ensure design deliverables meet project programmes and deadlines

• Carry out engineering calculations and technical design work

• Consider the commercial implications of engineering design decisions

• Coordinate with CAD technicians and other technical specialists

• Monitor workloads, priorities and departmental performance

• Report progress and KPIs to the Design Director

• Support the development of design processes and team capabilities

• Take on increasing people management responsibilities as the department grows

• Experience in building services or engineering design

• Strong technical understanding and confidence completing engineering calculations

• Experience coordinating projects, design activities or technical workloads

• Good understanding of project budgets and commercial considerations

• Strong organisational and communication skills

• Confident allocating tasks and managing competing deadlines

• Proactive, energetic and comfortable taking responsibility

• Adaptable within a growing and changing business

• Interested in developing leadership and people management skills

• Keen to build a long-term career within engineering design

Applications are encouraged from Senior Design Engineers, Lead Design Engineers, Design Managers and technically strong engineers ready for their first departmental leadership role.

• £70,000-£95,000 basic salary, depending on experience

• Team KPI performance bonus

• 25 days' annual leave plus bank holidays

• Personal development and management training

• Support for further professional training

• Opportunity to lead and develop a growing design team

• Direct reporting line to the Design Director

• Long-term career progression

This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious engineering design professional looking to combine hands-on technical design with team leadership and operational responsibility.

You'll have the opportunity to shape how the design department operates, develop your management skills and take increasing ownership of project delivery as the business expands.

The company is particularly interested in candidates who have a solid technical foundation, strong commercial awareness and the ambition to develop into a senior design leadership position.

Senior Design Engineer → Design Principal → Senior Design Leadership

WR HVAC | M&E are the #1 recruitment partner for HVAC and M&E vacancies across the UK, Europe, and the USA. We work with manufacturers, distributors, contractors, and service providers across the heating, ventilation, air conditioning, refrigeration, and building services sectors, recruiting for sales, management, engineering, and technical roles.

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