Job Description
Senior Design Manager
This is a great opportunity for an experienced Senior Design Manager to join a main contractor and oversee the design phase of construction projects on wastewater treatment upgrades and resilience works worth £50m.
The company is an award-winning main contractor who are market leaders in the water sector. Your role as Senior Design Manager will be responsible for ensuring technically compliant, cost-effective, carbon- and water-considerate solutions are developed during the concept and detailed design phases, as well as the technical assurance of as-built designs and variations to the contract. Ensuring the schemes meet the Client's AMP objectives and regulatory commitments with respect to both performance and programme you'll additionally aim to deliver optimum cost benefits for the Client and, where possible, exceed regulatory allowances.
This company are forward thinking, offer great training and development opportunities and are recognised for their great culture, which puts their people first.
Key responsibilities for this Senior Design Manager role:
• Performance-manage the design team in terms of time, cost, quality, and health and safety, including agreeing on and monitoring targets and providing feedback.
• Managing the project programmes for design, emphasizing the importance of task planning and short interval control within the context of the wider project planning.
• Working with Project Engineers to carry out technical design reviews and manage the outputs of these reviews through the design review register in coordination with the allocated design partner.
• Checking and accepting designs, instigating project reviews as necessary.
• Seeking to optimize the design process by leveraging previous designs and standard designs and incorporating lessons learned.
Experience required for this Senior Design Manager role:
• Lengthy proven industry experience and a BEng/MEng qualified engineer.
• Proven people and project management skills with prior experience as a Design Manager/Principle Engineer within the Water Industry, or a similar process industry such as Oil & Gas, Petro Chem, Food and Beverage, Pharmaceuticals.
• Experience of the interaction between technical disciplines; Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Control and Automation.
• Good understanding of P&ID's.
Package offered for this Senior Design Manager role:
• £490.00 - £550.00 per day depending on experience
• Fexible Hours
• Hybrid Working