Building Services Manager - Yorkshire
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| Job Type | Permanent Full Time |
| Location | Leeds, West Yorkshire,United Kingdom,--Bradford, West Yorkshire |
| Area | Yorkshire and Humberside, England |
| Sector | ConstructionConstruction - Other construction roles |
| Salary | car allowance/benefits package |
| Start Date | ASAP |
| Advertiser | remoteapi |
| Job Ref | 895093_1658245836 |
| Job Views | 72 |
- Description
Building Services Manager
West Yorkshire
MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB:
The Role
This is a Building Services (M&E) Manager role, initially for West Yorkshire based projects. However, the business region covers Yorkshire and the East Midlands.
The Building Services Manager has a crucial role advising and directing project management and all members of the design team to ensure that there will be no adverse effect on the specific M&E requirements due to possible or actual delays within the main works or design. They will have full access to the company Construction Procurement and Construction Programmes and their status at all times, their influence will only be of benefit if they are able to identify risks, which will affect the M&E works, at the earliest stage and ensure that actions agreed are followed.
Duties:
Tender or Bid Period
Provide assistance to Estimating Departments and Bid Teams with.
- Agreeing the bid strategy for M&E services.
- Selection of suitable Sub contractors for enquiries.
- Selection of Designers where necessary.
- Review of M&E tender documents.
- Procure direct suppliers/equipment/specialist contractor quotes if required.
- Chair tender or bid interviews with sub contractors.
- Review subcontractor quotations.
- Selection of suitable quotations for tender return inclusion.
- Provide technical support and written submissions if required for tender returns.
Post Tender Submissions/Interviews
- Prepare detailed specific services statements for inclusion within our presentations.
- Assist Management/Bid teams with the specific requirements for presentations and interviews, this may include,
- Programme requirements
- Co-ordination reviews
- Installation method statements
- Value engineering proposals
- Quality control
- Progress and compliance monitoring
- Commissioning
- Hand over procedures and documentation
- Attend presentations and interviews as required. Demonstrate to the client that we have an in depth knowledge of the M&E works and that we have the required solutions. Get across the in house Building Services expertise that the business have and the benefits that this brings.
- Develop holistic solutions for the client's specific needs and ensure that there is added value to be gained by clients for selecting the business.
Pre Construction
- Assist management teams with the project procurement ensuring that suitable lead in times are allowed for, for the services package.
- Provide support and guidance with the selection of suitable service contractors,
- Review tender submissions
- Opportunity reviews
- Identify and manage risks
- Ensure proposed contractors are suitably qualified, experienced and have adequate resource to achieve the project requirements
- Ensure that selected bids are compliant
- Ensure that clarifications and qualifications have been purified.
- Attend contractors' interviews
- Review company construction and procurement programmes and provide comment, this may well be prior to the services contractors' appointment.
Design
- Establish what design release stages have been agreed and that a suitable benchmark, such as the RIBA format, has been adopted. Establish that the designers are working with an acceptable design checklist such as provided by CIBSE.
- Ensure that the design deliverable programme is produced at an early stage and that it identifies all drawings, specifications, schedules etc. required. Dates listed for information release should be in accordance with the required Procurement and Construction Programmes.
- Review the designs for suitability with the building structure
- Ensure that the service installations are fully co-ordinated, spatially with the building structure and service on service. Ensure also that services can be fully maintained and replaced without removal of other services or building finishes.
- Ensure Plantroom drawings clearly demonstrate that sufficient space is available for plant installation, commissioning, maintenance and withdrawal. Also that there is adequate ventilation and access to and from the plantroom.
- Chair service design progress meetings as required to ensure that the design release programme is on track and that project deliverables are being achieved.
- Attend design team meetings and ensure that all design team members are providing detailed designs in the timescales required for the services design progression, this would include items such as Drainage, Sanitaryware, IPS, Room Layouts, Reflected Ceiling Plans, Fire Strategy, Fixed Floor Plans, Warrant Submissions, Utilities etc.
- Chair compliance checking reviews with the services designer and or contractor.
- Ensure that non compliance and derogation documents are produced and accepted within the contract documentation
- Ensure that all Utilities have been designed and responsibilities defined and accepted.
- SBEM, BREEAM, EPC's etc. Do all parties have a clear understanding of what must be provided and the targets to be achieved?
Construction Phase
- Chair start up meeting with M&E Services contractors and produce written minute.
- Chair project team meeting to review the complete MEP services installation, this should be led by the services consultant and the services contractor
- Ensure as a minimum the following documents are in place, accurate and updated as agreed throughout the construction period,
- Construction Programme
- Procurement Schedule
- Time Scaled Drawing Register
- Deliverables Schedule
- Builderswork Drawings
- Progress Reports
- Commissioning Dossier and Programme
- Attend and Chair, if necessary, progress meetings utilising the agreed agenda format and produce a detailed minute with actions recorded and dated. The chairing of these meetings should be by the project manager however the BSM has to ensure that the meetings are achieving what is needed.
- Manage the co-ordination and design development
- Risk Management - This is possibly the most important role for the Building Services Manager. The early identification of issues and concerns along with the planning and implementation of resolutions is critical to the success of any project. The BSM must be able to highlight and manage issues of design, progress, programme, quality, compliance etc. which will potentially affect the project.
- Utilities - Ensure that there is a clear understanding of the responsibilities for providing all utilities. Produce a programme of actions and dates and chair meetings as required to ensure that utilities will be provided when required.
- Carry out Quality and Compliance checks during all stages of the project.
Commissionning
- Advise the RCG Commissioning Manager (CxM) at an appropriate time about the project and agree timescales for CxM involvement. Suggest that the appropriate time is when the Tender drawings and specifications are being issued to tendering contractors.
- Agree at the appropriate time the sub contractor's proposals for their in house management of commissioning. Due to the size or complexity of a project the management should perhaps be provided by a specialist Commissioning Management Company employed by the services sub-contractor. Contact the RCG CxM to discuss possible requirement for the contractors to consider using an external source.
- Ensure that the services contractor provides a detailed commissioning dossier which fully explains the testing and commissioning procedures for all systems. This should be specific to the project and revised and updated as required. The dossiers should contain specific commissioning method statements and draft commissioning test sheets which should be completed with all relevant design information such as flowrates, set or alarm points and description of operation as applicable.
- The commissioning programme must be provided at the agreed stage, the BSM must review and provide comment which will ensure that an accurate programme is in place. The commissioning programme should be logic linked with clear predecessors and successors so that it is dynamic and robust to show the path of commissioning and to allow risk identification should planned dates not be realised.
- The BSM should brief all Robertson Construction project staff on the requirements for commissioning and ensure that the projects staff fully understand their responsibilities for the commissioning programme to succeed. This will include ensuring that suitable access is available, associated required ceiling or floor finishes complete, relevant doors, windows installed to allow proper commissioning to take place.
- Chair commissioning meetings as required and produce a master sheet which allows the review of real time commissioning results. Provide regular updates to the CxM using the progress schedules provided. Produce meeting notes using the format supplied at the initial Commissioning meeting provided by the CxM.
- Implement changes/alterations as required to enable systems achievement of the required design figures.
Project Completion and Handover
- The BSM should establish the handover procedures for the project and produce a detailed plan for achieving
- The BSM should review all as-built drawings for accuracy and compliance. The operating and maintenance manuals format should be agreed at an early stage with the client and checked by the BSM prior to submission.
- One area where problems have arisen on many projects is the setting to work of systems, so often there is such a panic to complete works and commission at the same time, there is no time to prove that systems are fully operational and performing as they should be.
- The BSM must ensure that adequate time has been allowed for the setting to work and proving of systems and that the subcontractors are fully aware of their responsibilities. Proving of certain systems, such as heating can only be fully proven during a heating season, this must be incorporated in the subcontract order.
- The BSM should develop a working relationship with the client's representative to ensure that the handover phase goes as smoothly possible.
Qualifications/Experience Required:
Qualifications:
Essential - depending on background minimum of HNC/HND in a building services discipline.
Desirable - Building Services Discipline degree or HND
Experience:
Essential - Design and/or design and build background, strong project management skills, good list of successful projects. Strong mechanical knowledge with good electrical understanding
Desirable - Strong mechanical knowledge with good electrical understanding
If this sounds of interest and you would like to explore further, then apply or call for a confidential discussion.
