Technical Manager Heat Pumps
Application Deadline: 26 May 2026
Department: Renewables
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Birmingham
Reporting To: Renewables Manager
Description
The Technical Manager – Heat Pumps will play a crucial role in driving growth, fostering partnerships, and promoting sustainable solutions. They will lead on the efforts to secure new business through the development of forward‑thinking solutions across a range of decarbonisation projects, including district heating systems, energy centres, and renewable technology integrations. Collaborating closely with multidisciplinary teams, you will liaise with clients and support in setting out the project scope to best meet the client’s objectives, and engaging with specialists to ensure designs put forward meet the highest standards of efficiency, innovation, and compliance while supporting Alternative Heat’s mission to drive decarbonisation in building services.
Job Title: Technical Manager – Heat Pumps
Location: Flexible
Hours: Monday-Thursday 8am-5pm and Friday 8am-3pm
Salary: Competitive Depending on Experience
Responsible to: Renewables Manager
What You'll be Doing
1. Product and technical ownership
o Act as the internal expert on the commercial heat pump range (performance, applications, limits, controls, integration with wider HVAC/renewables).
o Interpret standards, building regulations, and compliance requirements and translate them into clear product specifications and guidance for projects.
2. Specification development and management
o Produce and maintain standard product specifications, schedules, and technical datasheets for consultants, contractors, and clients.
o Support the creation of project‑specific specifications often aligned with RIBA stages, including selections, options, and value‑engineering proposals.
o Ensure products are positioned correctly in specification documents, project‑specific proposals and BIM layouts.
3. Pre‑sales technical support
o Work with sales and key account teams to size, select, and configure heat pump solutions for commercial projects (e.g. offices, education, healthcare).
o Review designs from M&E consultants and contractors, highlight risks, optimisation opportunities, and compliance issues.
o Provide written design reviews, performance estimates, and technical clarifications during tender and bid stages.
4. Stakeholder engagement (consultants, specifiers, clients)
o Build and manage relationships with M&E consultants, specialist M&E specifiers, architects, main contractors, and end clients.
o Deliver CPDs, lunch‑and‑learns, and technical presentations focused on heat pump application, system design, and regulations.
o Act as the primary point of contact for specification‑related queries throughout the project lifecycle.
5. Regulation, standards, and compliance
o Keep up to date with UK/EU building regulations, planning requirements, incentives, and industry standards affecting commercial heat pumps.
o Ensure all specifications and proposed solutions meet relevant safety, environmental, acoustic, and performance standards.
o Support internal teams with documentation needed for compliance, warranties, and performance guarantees.
6. Cross‑functional collaboration
o Work closely with product management, R&D, and engineering to feed market and project requirements into product development.
o Support marketing with technically accurate collateral (brochures, case studies, spec guides, BIM objects).
o Align with operations and delivery teams to ensure specified solutions are practical to install, commission, and support.
7. Commercial and pipeline responsibility
o Drive specification‑led sales opportunities and support the conversion of specifications into orders.
o Track specifications through the project pipeline and coordinate with sales colleagues to protect the spec against competitors.
o Provide input on pricing strategy, value propositions, and commercial risk on complex or large projects.
8. Lifecycle and application optimisation
o Advise on system design choices that affect whole‑life performance (e.g. flow temperatures, emitters, buffer/thermal storage, controls strategy).
o Support decarbonisation and retrofit assessments.
o Help define and communicate maintenance, reliability, and lifecycle cost aspects in specs and proposals.
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