M&E Project Director

Location Bath
Discipline: M&E Operational Roles
Salary: £80,000 - £90,000 & benefits
Contact name: Mike Halliwell

Contact email: mike.halliwell@ravensearch.co.uk
Job ref: 3683310

​The Opportunity

Our client, an established M&E engineering specialist, is looking for a Project Director to take overall accountability for mechanical and electrical delivery on a major project in Bath.

Most project director roles on a single scheme are contracts. This one is permanent, because the business already has the work that follows it.

The role covers both disciplines, which is less common than it sounds. A good number of director-level M&E posts are a mechanical person with an electrical manager alongside them, or the reverse. Here the coordination between the two is the thing most likely to cost money on site, so it sits with one person, along with the commercial position: cost, forecast, change and margin.

The initial programme runs for twelve months, with the team expected to carry on to the projects that follow it in the region. This is a permanent role in Bath, £80,000 to £90,000 depending on experience, plus a full benefits package.

About the Business

Highly serviced facilities in regulated environments are a particular kind of delivery problem. The services are the reason the building exists rather than a layer inside it, the compliance regime applies all the way through construction instead of arriving at handover, and the client’s own operation usually carries on while the work happens. Programme slippage in that setting is not only a commercial matter.

Key client details
Business
M&E engineering specialist covering design, delivery and maintenance of highly serviced facilities
Reach
National, with the Bath project part of a wider regional programme
Where the work happens
Live, regulated and operationally sensitive environments, where compliance applies throughout rather than at handover
The Bath programme
An initial twelve-month project, with further work in the region already in the pipeline
Basis
Permanent appointments rather than contract, on the strength of that pipeline
Accreditations
ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001

The pipeline behind this project is what makes the appointment permanent, and it is the part worth weighing properly. Twelve months on its own is a contract. Twelve months with named work behind it in the same region is a career move. Worth asking about directly.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Taking overall accountability for M&E delivery, from mobilisation through commissioning and close-out

  • Leading the project management team across both mechanical and electrical disciplines

  • Owning the programme, the resourcing strategy and the delivery plan, and intervening on risk early rather than reporting it late

  • Holding the commercial position: cost control, forecasting, change management and margin protection

  • Acting as the senior point of contact for the client and main contractor, and representing the project at board level

  • Overseeing coordination between the mechanical and electrical scopes so gaps do not open up on site

  • Setting and maintaining health, safety and quality standards across the project

  • Overseeing procurement strategy for major plant and subcontract packages

  • Carrying the team on to the projects that follow in the region

What We're Looking For

  • A strong M&E project leadership background, at Director, Senior or Lead Project Manager level

  • Experience delivering large-value M&E projects from mobilisation through to handover

  • A mechanical or electrical background, with the confidence to lead both disciplines

  • Proven commercial awareness and cost management across a project of scale

  • The presence to hold senior relationships with clients and main contractors

  • Experience leading project teams and specialist subcontractors

  • SMSTS and CSCS, alongside relevant M&E qualifications

  • Full UK driving licence

Experience in industrial, process or otherwise operationally sensitive environments is an advantage, though not essential. Candidates based in or around Bath are preferred, though the business will support travel or relocation and funds on-site accommodation for anyone travelling in.

What it is

•Overall accountability for delivery, mobilisation through to close-out

•Leading the project management team across mechanical and electrical both

•The commercial position as well as the programme

•The senior face to the client, the main contractor and the project board

What it isn't

•A single-discipline director with the other side handled elsewhere

•Delivery oversight with the commercial numbers owned by somebody else

•Inheriting a team and a programme that are already running

•A role that ends when the first project does

What's on Offer

£80,000 – £90,000
Depending on experience
Accommodation funded
For travelling candidates
Full benefits
Company package

  • Real authority over a major project, rather than oversight of decisions made elsewhere

  • A stable base of work in the region, rather than one project and then a search

  • Design and maintenance capability in house, behind the delivery team

How to Apply

Apply using the button below, or contact Mike Halliwell directly for a discreet conversation.