Design Lead

Costain Group PLC; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in infrastructure is seeking a Design Manager for the Anglian Water Strategic Pipeline Alliance project in Peterborough. This role involves leading a design team, ensuring efficient delivery of design tasks, and collaborating with various stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle. Candidates should have an engineering background, Chartered Engineer status, and experience in multi-disciplinary team leadership. A full UK driving licence is also required.

Qualifications

• Experience leading design within multi-disciplinary teams in utilities or infrastructure.
• Strong performance in managing and delivering complex programmes.
• Understanding design interactions throughout the project lifecycle.
• Technical experience in water projects is beneficial.
• Full UK Driving Licence required.

Responsibilities

• Manage the design team from feasibility through to construction.
• Ensure the design is delivered efficiently according to requirements.
• Plan and resource design activities across project elements.
• Collaborate with project management and construction teams.
• Produce designs in accordance with CDM regulations.

Skills

Leadership

Collaboration

Communication

Design Management

Technical Queries

Education

Engineering Degree or equivalent

Chartered Engineer status

Job description

The Anglian Water Strategic Pipeline Alliance (SPA) project currently involves the planning, design and construction of circa 320km of new strategic, large diameter, clean water interconnector pipelines and associated infrastructure across Anglian Water's region. The SPA Alliance is also taking on responsibility for the future interconnector pipelines, a further 260km of strategic interconnector pipelines and associated infrastructure.,

• Work collaboratively with the Head of Engineering, Design Manager and Senior Designers to understand design needs, then manage the design team relating to your section of the SPA delivery programme from feasibility through to construction and commissioning
• Work collaboratively with Delivery teams, including construction, procurement, enabling, planning and commercial, to ensure the design is delivered efficiently in accordance with constructability requirements
• Responsible for information flow, recording design outputs and ensuring consistency of approach
• Plan, forecast and resource design activities across their element/s of the project, monitoring workload and leading the design teams to output design in a timely and efficient manner
• Collaborate across the wider project delivery team, working closely with project management, construction, enabling, planning, commercial and procurement teams
• Develop close working relationships with AW Operational stakeholders to support design decision making and Client sign-off.
• Enable good information flow, e.g. via Technical Queries etc.
• Guide your team in producing designs in accordance with CDM regulations, minimising safety risks in construction, commissioning and subsequent maintenance and decommissioning.
• Ensure survey works are specified in a timely manner to support delivery of the projects, including Utilities, Ground Investigation and Existing site survey
• Liaison with Temporary Works Design.
  
  Previous experience of leading design within multi-disciplinary teams in the utilities or infrastructure environment
• Strong evidence of consistent high performance in the management and delivery of complex programmes of work
• Understand the importance of design interactions throughput the project lifecycle
• Technical experience of working on water projects would benefit the candidate and an understanding of client's minimum asset standards and industry standards would be useful
• Ability to collaborate and challenge the norm
• Experience of leading design with multi-disciplinary teams, Engineering Degree / equivalent
• Chartered Engineer status
• A high-level of training and experience in your field of expertise, together with the ability to listen to and understand others' expertise
• Full UK Driving Licence