Principal Engineer (Liverpool)

M&E Design Team Leader – Liverpool

Role Summary

Job Title: M&E Design Team Leader

Location: Liverpool

Salary: Starting from £70,000 per annum

Hours: 40 hours per week – some flexibly, just ask us

Sector: M&E and Tunnels

This role can be permanent or on a fixed term contract basis.

Are you…

• A Chartered Engineer and member of CIBSE or IET?
• A Design Team Leader with strong M&E experience?
• A Design Team Leader looking to take the next step with a Main Contractor?
• Passionate about working for a collaborative, trusted, and delivery‑focused organisation?

Do you…

• Hold a Degree in Mechanical Building Services or Electrical Engineering?
• Have significant knowledge of the road tunnel industry?
• Bring experience of working across both public and private sector projects?
• Want to work for a highly regarded Main Contractor, recognised as a Top 30 employer on Glassdoor?

About the Role

This position is suited to a Chartered Engineer and member of CIBSE or IET, with experience leading design teams in the M&E sector. The successful candidate will be keen to work with a main contractor that values collaboration, trust, and a focused approach.

Key Requirements

• Degree-qualified in relevant field
• Experienced within the road tunnel industry
• Senior engineering experience and proven project delivery
• Leadership of multi-disciplinary teams and strong communication skills.
• Quality assurance and document control expertise
• BPSS clearance required

Main Responsibilities

• Support the Head of Service in leading and managing the Liverpool‑based M&E team, working closely with Electrical, Mechanical, and Tunnels leads to deliver coordinated multi‑disciplinary design solutions
• Lead the delivery of high‑quality M&E designs across new build, refurbishment, and minor works projects, ensuring outputs meet programme, budget, quality, and safety standards
• Manage team performance, utilisation, and development, ensuring capability aligns with workload and business targets
• Oversee technical delivery including feasibility studies, multi‑stage designs, specifications, condition reports, and technical advice
• Maintain and apply engineering standards, QA procedures, document control, and Health & Safety policies
• Build and maintain strong client relationships across public and private sector projects, ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction
• Contribute to business development, including fee proposals, quality submissions, bids, presentations, and winning new work
• Promote continuous improvement, innovation, and best practice across the M&E service.
• Represent Kier within the Road Tunnel industry, contributing to forums, working groups, and industry engagement

About Kier Design

Kier Design are a top-25 engineering consultancy, delivering a wide range of services across all sectors of the built environment, providing construction-focused, innovative and sustainable solutions. We have preferential access to Kier's £11bn+ project pipeline, including mega projects like High Speed 2 and Hinkley Point C, frameworks with national and local government and other public bodies, and a range of other interesting projects in every sector of the built environment.

We believe in building teams around our people, rather than squeezing people into our teams, we want to help you carve out a role in which you'll grow and thrive for many years to come. Offering market-leading development opportunities, supporting our graduates through the early stages of their careers, enabling our people to become professionally qualified, providing management training and qualifications, and supporting ongoing technical development throughout our people's careers. Actively promoting, so you can keep pushing and stretching yourself.

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here .

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here . As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.