Design Lead

TRS Staffing Solutions; Crawley; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

TRS Staffing Solutions in Crawley, United Kingdom, is looking for an experienced design programme manager to lead Electrical and Civil Designers and ensure designs meet standards and regulatory requirements. The role covers delivering projects on time, within budget, and with safe, compliant documentation.

The position involves coordinating design scope, resource planning, and decision-making on insourcing or outsourcing design work, with responsibility for external design partners and project

Responsibilities

• Day-to-day management of Electrical and Civil Designers, ensuring designs comply with standards and CDM regulations.
• Define design scope deliverables and agree delivery programme and cost with Project Manager.
• Accountable for design delivery to programme, quality, and cost per UKPN standards and reporting.
• Prepare resource plans to support sub-programme portfolio and decide insourcing vs outsourcing design delivery.
• Provide technical guidance to senior/sub-programme managers and make key technical decisions.
• Ensure designs meet mandated outputs while being cost-efficient and traceable for outputs.
• Manage design team targets, HR issues, and oversee external designers seconded to the team.
• Prepare works information for external contracts and manage design-related changes and warnings.
• Provide as-built information, Health and Safety files, and contribute to project closures.
• Discharge obligations or nominate Principal Designer under CDM 2015 regulations.

Job description

Principal Accountabilities

• Responsible for day to day management of Electrical and Civil Designers, ensuring designs produced comply with standards, Design Freeze is achieved through design review, CDM compliance maintained, and supporting the DNO investment delivery team
• Defining design scope deliverables, and agreeing delivery programme and cost with the Project Manager
• Accountable for the delivery of the designs to agreed programme, quality and cost in compliance with UKPN standards and CDM regulations and the appropriate reporting and tracking of these activities.
• Accountable for the preparation of resource plans to support sub-programme portfolio of the relevant Capital Programme workstream and accountable for the making the decision to insource or outsource the design delivery.
• Be a point of reference for senior managers and sub-programme managers on technical aspects of designs for the relevant sub-programme. Will have the relevant technical authority to make the appropriate technical decisions within the sub-programme.
• Ensure that designs achieve the mandated outputs whilst being rigorously challenged to assure technical requirements are achieved efficiently, responsible for the design estimation cost, quality of design is assured and contribute to the out-performance of the regulatory determination or agreed Connections quotation,
• Will have line management responsibilities for internal staff eg responsible for setting individual performance targets for the design team within the overall performance targets for engineering design, handling daily HR issues for the team, authorising leave, timesheets and expenses. In addition will have accountability for the daily management of external designers seconded to the design team from external agencies.
• Will be accountable for the preparation of works information pertinent to the Professional Services Contracts for external design partners (Time Charge and Work Package Orders), the raising and receiving design related "Early Warnings", "Compensation Events" and the resultant change control processes.
• Provision of as built information, Health and Safety file and key contributor to the technical closure of projects and sub-programmes
• Will discharge the obligations or nominate Principal Designer under CDM 2015 regulations.