Design Manager - Mechanical, Electrical & Plumbing (MEP) - (ENG-L8.9) at Zutari

Role Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and mentorship to a team of digital designers (engineers, technicians, and modellers), across both mechanical and electrical disciplines.
• Oversee the design and coordination of all design disciplines for your projects.
• Ensure all design work is completed to a high standard and within the project timelines and budgets.
• Address and resolve any issues or discrepancies that arise during the design stages.
• Regularly review client SOW documentation, ensuring designs align with client needs and requirements, raising variance orders pro-actively.
• Analysing project requirements in the context of various codes and standard and develop conceptual designs through to a set of construction information.
• Act as the primary point of contact between the design team, the client, and other key stakeholders.
• Coordinate and attend design meetings, presenting updates, challenges, and solutions.
• Translate technical design details into layman terms for clients and other non-technical stakeholders.
• Identify and address potential design changes that could lead to cost overruns.
• Work with the quantity surveyors or cost estimators to ensure that designs are cost-effective.
• Assign tasks to design team members based on their skills and experience.
• Monitor and manage workload distribution to prevent bottlenecks and ensure timely completion.
• Mentor and support the design team, promoting continuous learning and professional growth.
• Implement and oversee quality control processes for design outputs.
• Ensure designs meet internal and agreed external standards and regulations.
• Ensure all contractual documentation (drawings, calculations, specifications, etc.) are correctly maintained throughout the lifecycle of projects.
• Identify potential design-related risks and work with the team to develop mitigation strategies.
• Stay updated with industry trends, technologies, and best practices.
• Provide guidance on the application of appropriate design software, methodologies, and tools. Identifies scripts and add-ins to automate repetitive design aspects and/or to check various design compliance aspects (using e.g., Dynamo, Python) and mobilizes the team to put these in place.
• Lead the coordination of the design and virtual construction of the relevant building services designs forming part of projects such as data centres, education and sports facilities, hospitals, commercial buildings, and transport facilities to ensure our deliverables meet required robust industry and legal standards.
• Maintain project records in accordance with internal quality system.

Minimum Requirements

• BSc, BEng or BTech within the building services related fields.
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant design management consulting experience in the built environment, as either a Mechanical, Electrical or Wet Services Engineer.
• Experience in leading a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience of projects in the Middle East and/or Data Centres is highly advantageous.
• Professionally Registered (Pr Eng or similar)
• International project experience (outside Africa)
• Strong proficiency with Office, Revit, and other related digital coordination tools
• Knowledge of various MEP simulation programs as well as proficiency in prime discipline programs
• Keen interest in BIM, inclusive of the metadata information associated with designs produced.
• Client facing with strong presentation skills.
• Commercial and financial awareness and management of projects and fees
• Ability to work autonomously, as part of a wider team, and leading a team
• A willingness to learn and improve our delivery systems.
• A strong interest in working on innovative and complex projects.
• A passion for coding
• A passion for mentoring and teaching others