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Head of Design - MEP Building Services
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Head of Design | Building Services
📍 Birmingham
🏡 Hybrid Working
💰 Excellent Executive Salary + Executive Package
Most senior engineering roles focus on managing projects.
This one gives you the opportunity to shape an entire design function.
We're supporting a growing engineering business looking to appoint an exceptional technical leader to shape the future of its Building Services design capability.
This isn't simply another Head of Design position. It's an opportunity to influence technical direction, develop engineering talent, raise standards and ensure every solution delivered is innovative, practical and commercially successful.
If you've reached the point in your career where making an impact matters more than simply adding another job title to your CV, keep reading.
Why This Opportunity Is Different
This isn't a traditional Building Services consultancy.
It's an engineering business that designs, manufactures, installs and supports its own solutions, giving its engineering teams genuine influence across the entire project lifecycle.
Rather than handing designs over for somebody else to deliver, you'll work alongside manufacturing, commercial and operational teams to ensure every solution is technically robust, commercially viable and genuinely buildable.
With more than two decades of sustained growth, a significant presence across the UK and Ireland and continued investment in innovation and modern methods of construction, the business has established itself as a recognised leader in low-carbon engineering and offsite MEP solutions.
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The Opportunity
This is a role for someone who enjoys leading through technical credibility.
You'll provide the direction that allows others to succeed.
You'll challenge ideas.
Raise standards.
Develop people.
And ensure engineering excellence remains at the heart of every project.
You'll have the opportunity to:
- Lead and develop a multidisciplinary Mechanical, Electrical and BIM design function.
- Provide technical leadership across complex Building Services and decarbonisation projects.
- Review engineering solutions, challenge design decisions and ensure technical excellence throughout the project lifecycle.
- Establish engineering standards, governance and best practice across the business.
- Work closely with commercial, manufacturing and operational teams to ensure every solution is practical, buildable and commercially successful.
- Mentor and develop the next generation of engineering leaders.
You'll have the autonomy to make decisions.
The trust to influence strategy.
And the support to build a design function recognised for technical excellence.
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Who We're Looking For
This opportunity is likely to appeal to someone currently operating as a:
- Head of Design
- Technical Director
- Associate Director
- Building Services Director
- MEP Design Manager
Or perhaps someone who's ready to step into their first strategic leadership position.
Your background is likely to be within Mechanical Building Services, supported by strong multidisciplinary MEP design experience and the technical credibility to lead senior engineering teams.
More importantly, you'll enjoy developing people, challenging convention and creating an environment where great engineers can produce exceptional work.
Why Join?
This is a business that continues to invest in innovation, engineering excellence and long-term sustainable growth.
You'll be joining an organisation where technical leadership is genuinely valued, where collaboration sits at the heart of project delivery and where you'll have the opportunity to influence not only today's projects but the future direction of the business itself.
Some opportunities change jobs... Others define careers.
If you're looking for another management position...
This probably isn't it.
If you're looking for the opportunity to influence technical strategy, develop outstanding engineering teams and leave a lasting legacy within a growing business...
I'd love to have a confidential conversation.
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