Pre-Construction Designer

Location: UK
Salary: £58,000

About the Role

Are you an experienced Pre-Construction Designer looking for your next opportunity?

Technical Resources is partnering with a leading systems integrator specialising in fire, security and ICT infrastructure solutions to hire a Pre-Construction Designer. In this role, you will be responsible for driving the technical design process from tender stage through to construction issue, ensuring accurate, compliant, and fully coordinated design outputs across complex, multi-discipline projects.

This is an ideal opportunity to join an established organisation with a strong reputation for delivering high-quality fire, security and critical infrastructure solutions across UK and European projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Tender Support & Design Input: Collaborate with the estimating team during the bid stage by developing system architectures, validating device quantities and responding to technical clarifications, ensuring the design basis is clearly defined ahead of project award.
• Multi-Discipline Technical Design: Produce detailed design deliverables across fire (device layouts, schematics, cause and effect documentation, battery and voltage drop calculations, ASD pipe network calculations), security (CCTV coverage designs and access control schedules), and ICT infrastructure (containment and cabling layouts, rack and cabinet elevations, cable and patching schedules).
• BIM & Model-Based Coordination: Collaborate with the dedicated BIM team to produce model-based deliverables using Revit and Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC), supporting coordination across all disciplines.
• Stakeholder & Design Management: Coordinate with main contractors, MEP consultants and architects, managing design submissions, RFIs, technical queries and comments through to approval.
• Design Handover & Record Control: Maintain a complete and controlled design record throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring a thorough and accurate handover to the project delivery team.
• Quality & Compliance: Ensure all design outputs adhere to relevant industry standards, including BS 5839-1, BS 5839-8, EN 54, BS EN 62676, BS EN 60839-11, BS EN 50131, BS EN 50173, BS EN 50174 and BS 6701, as applicable to each discipline.

Experience & Qualifications Required

Essential:

• Experience: Demonstrable system design experience in at least one discipline — fire detection and alarm, electronic security, or ICT infrastructure — gained within a systems integrator, building services consultancy or manufacturer's design support team.
• Technical Skills: Working knowledge of relevant industry standards across fire, security and/or ICT disciplines, including BS 5839-1, EN 54, BS EN 62676, BS EN 50131, BS EN 50173 or BS 6701, as appropriate to background.
• Project/Operational Scope: Proven track record managing design submissions, RFIs and technical queries with main contractors and clients on complex construction projects.
• Soft Skills: Strong written and verbal communication, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple design workstreams concurrently.
• Mobility & Eligibility: Right to Work in the UK at the time of application.

Desirable:

• Multi-Discipline Design: Experience producing design deliverables across more than one of the three core disciplines — fire, security and ICT infrastructure.
• Software Proficiency: AutoCAD experience; familiarity with Revit, ACC or wider BIM workflows.
• Specialist Technical Knowledge: Experience with ASD design and pipe network calculations; data centre ICT infrastructure knowledge including EN 50600 or TIA-942.
• Sector Background: Prior experience on data centre, mission-critical or large-scale commercial projects; exposure to European standards and national equivalents.
• Certifications: Relevant industry qualifications such as FIA Designer (fire), BICSI RCDD or CNet accreditation (ICT), or equivalent.

What We Offer

• Competitive Base Salary: £58,000
• Benefits Package: Contributory pension scheme, structured five-tier competency framework with individual development plans, and the opportunity to mentor apprentices as the team grows.
• Exposure to multi-discipline projects across fire, security and ICT infrastructure, including work across European markets and standards.
• Clear career progression within a growing global sector.

How to Apply

To apply for this Pre-Construction Designer position, please submit an up-to-date CV.

Note: Applicants must have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application.

About Technical Resources: Technical Resources is a market leader in Fire & Security and Telecoms recruitment.