Senior Technical Manager

As a Senior Technical manager you will be a senior person within the Technical Management team,
forming part of the wider technical community driving technical excellence in Dalkia Engineering Ltd,
underpinning our mission to become the UK’s number one technical solutions provider.
The technical community supports Dalkia UK Engineering and Dalkia UK Group businesses across all
sectors and parts of a project life cycle, providing a wealth of development and role opportunities.
Your role will see you collaboratively managing stakeholder relationships internally, such as bid teams,
commercial teams and operational teams along with external stakeholder relationships such as clients,
consultant partners, supply chain and manufacturers.
You are expected to follow corporate governance and process at all times and uphold the behaviours
and values expected within Dalkia Engineering.
As a Senior Technical manager you will oversee and manage the delivery of effective design and
technical management across projects. You will oversee the processes that enable the design and
engineering to be challenged and interrogated within a collaborative team framework.
This project based role focuses on setting up projects technically and derisking them in the
preconstruction phase to reduce onsite engineering and uncertainty in design and cost.
You will have a passion for complex engineering, design and collaboration and excellent communication
skills.

Main responsibilities and key outcomes
1. Has technical responsibility within their project(s) for the pre-construction phase design processes,
liaising with the client, the design team, the in-house bid team, supply chain and the Dalkia
operations team.
2. Responsible for setting up/managing and monitoring the technical strategy/ technical deliverables
plan for project(s). This includes setting up technical reviews internally and externally (as required)
and delivery of the pre-construction phase in accordance with Dalkia’s PDS.3. Ensures that design and technical risks on projects are identified, managed and mitigated to
conclusion
4. Ensures that the relevant internal and external specialists are introduced to the project team at the
appropriate time on bids and during preconstruction e.g. offsite MMC, sprinkler designers and
other CDP.
5. Ensures that designs are properly co-ordinated and communicated.
6. Understands, plans, manages and discharges Dalkia’s associated technical obligations under the
Building Safety Act and CDM
7. Ensures compliance with relevant Technical Standards, Regulations, Industry norms, good practice,
engineering system safety i.e. CDM, BSA, Approved documents etc
8. Manages/oversees the design development and integration of value engineering and change
9. Identifies the design needs of project, sets and manages consultant deliverables and fees to align
with Dalkia’s pricing, procurement, construction and DRM/BG6 deliverables
10. Liaises closely with consultant design teams, Dalkia UK Digital engineers, project managers and
project engineers.
Reports to:
Project : Bid lead/Project Director/Project Leader
Functional: Technical Leader/ Technical Director
Manages who:
Technical Managers, Intermediate/ Graduate Technical Manager
Desired qualifications and experience:
Qualifications: BEng or Meng/MSc in mechanical engineering, Electrical Engineering or related building
services degree
Professional Registration: Incorporated or Chartered status (or working towards) with CIBSE, IET,
IMechE or other related institution.
Experience: minimum 8 years in a design related engineering role
Sector Experience: Healthcare, commercial, leisure, MOD/MOJ preferable.
Project value: Comfortably able to manage projects with £5-50M MEP value