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Design Manager - Electrical - Aviation, Dartford
Client: Laing O'Rourke
Location: Dartford, United Kingdom
Job Category: Other
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EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: 5736854ff4d7
Job Views: 8
Posted: 25.08.2025
Expiry Date: 09.10.2025
Job Description:
Do you have experience in Aviation / Airport projects?
Are you passionate about exemplary Design Management?
Do you aspire to work on the biggest and most iconic infrastructure projects in the UK?
Are you considering what's next for your career?
Then we would love to hear from you!
The Opportunity:
Laing O'Rourke is currently recruiting for an electrically biased Design Manager for an aviation / airport project in Greater London. A Laing O'Rourke Design Manager ensures that all design information is reviewed and delivered in line with the design management procedures for completeness and compliance with contractual obligations, including factors such as programme, buildability, safety, maintenance, and technical suitability. The Design Manager oversees the production, control, and distribution of design information at different project stages and ensures regular progress reporting of the design.
The Design Manager is a senior member of the Design Job Family and Technical Function, ensuring technical excellence, assurance, and performance across all projects from pre-project, early engagement, to detailed delivery. All designers are part of our Engineering Enterprise, which aims to maximize and realize the potential of design to increase certainty on our projects.
What will the role look like?
* Supporting our consultant teams to maximize their effectiveness and value in providing effective integrated design solutions that meet our clients' and our business needs (strategies and budgets).
* Maximizing the effectiveness of consultant relationships.
* Reviewing design delivery to enhance quality and efficiency of solutions, procurement, manufacturing, assembly, commissioning, and handover of engineering solutions for our clients.
* Supporting our consultants in adopting Laing O'Rourke's design processes, delivering with rigour and quality project management processes, and ensuring effective collaboration throughout the supply chain (including BIM/Digital Engineering).
* Capturing business knowledge and capability to enable continuous improvement, innovation, and enhanced engineering enterprise capabilities.
Technical Capabilities:
* Creating and owning the design brief
* Design for Manufacture and Assembly
* Information and Change Control
* Design compliance
What skills & experience are we looking for?
* First degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent construction-related qualification with design experience.
* Approximately 5 years' experience across different procurement routes and sectors, managing design from concept to handover.
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