HVAC Design Engineering Manager

About the job

HVAC Design Engineering Manager

Location - Reading area

Package - £42,650 - £62,000 (depending on your suitability and level of experience)

AWE (one of the best 25 big companies to work for in the UK) offers an attractive array of benefits which include:

• Market leading contributory pension scheme

• Generous holiday entitlement (270 hours a year, including Bank Holidays, plus every other Friday off)

• Flexible working hours

• Salary sacrifice scheme

• Consideration for either full time or part time hours. Just let us know on your application if you wish to work part time

• Relocation package available (terms and conditions apply)

What will you be responsible for?

• Managing engineering solutions which fully comply with all AWE and UK legal requirements together with AWE business case needs

• Establishing, maintaining and communicating the engineering design programme, budget and work breakdown structure

• Agree with the Compliance Group the extent of processes required for the specification and verification of projects

• Identifying and agreeing with HOD's and others as appropriate a comprehensive resource requirement for the engineering design of the project to budgetary targets

• Establish and maintain (and deliver designs in accordance with) the Design Control Plans for projects

• Ensuring project personnel undertaking engineering design duties meet the requirement to be Suitably Qualified and Experienced Persons

• Monitoring the co-ordination of engineering design activities of all design houses and other suppliers of engineering design contributing to the projects

• Monitoring Project Changes as they affect Engineering Design Delivery and the effect of these changes against the initial budget and programme

• Contribute to integrated safety when reviewing engineering designs and ensure that all technical and design risks are identified and appropriately managed to meet project requirements and the letter and intent of the CDM Regulations, including discharging the designers role

What will you need to be considered?

• HVAC background with experience of designing complex HVAC systems in hazardous or critical environments such as:

  • Explosive atmospheres

  • Close environmental control

  • Chemical atmospheres

  • Clean rooms and laboratories

  • Nuclear

  • Business critical

• Good technical and management skills including problem solving and decision making

• Good oral, written and presentational skills with a particular aptitude for report, documentation and letter writing

• Good interpersonal and communication skills to ensure effective communication to all levels to both internal and external personnel

• Familiarity with standard office software including word processors, spreadsheets, e-mail, presentations and databases

• Minimum a degree in engineering or Chartered Membership of an engineering institution

Candidates must be willing and able to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role.