Design Management Talent Pool - Power

ENGINEERINGUK; Dartford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering and construction company is seeking a Senior Design Manager to oversee design processes for large-scale infrastructure projects. This role involves leading teams, ensuring design excellence, and collaborating with various stakeholders. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in design management and relevant qualifications. Join us to contribute to iconic projects across the UK.

Benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Pension – basic and enhanced schemes

Health and Wellbeing

Employee Assistance Programme

Employee Discounts

Qualifications

• Experience managing design from concept to handover.
• Deep experience in managing design of construction projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead pre-construction phase design processes.
• Implement design management procedures across projects.
• Ensure thorough review of design information for compliance.

Skills

Design Management

Project Management

Education

First degree in Building Services

Civils & Geo qualification

Job description

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View more categories View less categories Sector Creative and Design ,Recruitment Contract Type Permanent Hours Full Time

Do you have experience in Power / National Grid 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!!

Laing O'Rourke are currently recruiting Design Managers and Senior Design Managers from either a Civils & Geo or Electrical backgrounds for a variety of live projects and pending bids across England and Wales based from between the project site in Hertfordshire and our Birmingham or Dartford offices.

The Opportunity:

This Senior Design Manager will lead the delivery of effective design across this single large-scale project. They provide a focus for, and lead the pre-construction phase design processes, liaising with the client, the design team, in-house bid team and the operations team. On live projects, they implement and lead the processes that enable the design to be challenged and interrogated within a collaborative team framework, to enable risks to be reduced.

This Senior Design Manager will be a senior member of the Design Job Family and Technical Function, which is there to ensure technical excellence, assurance and performance across all projects and opportunities from pre-project, early engagement and work winning through to detailed delivery. All our designers are part of our Engineering Enterprise which aims to maximise and realise the potential of design to increase certainty on our projects.

What will the role look like?

• Providing a focus for and lead the pre-construction phase briefing and design processes.
• Leads LOR's design management procedures, providing a functional link between the commercial and construction teams and the designers throughout the project life.
• Implements the processes that enable the design to be challenged and interrogated within a collaborative team framework.
• Implements agreed processes for the production, control and distribution of design information at different project stages.
• Ensures regular progress reporting of the design.
• Ensures design information is thoroughly reviewed: for buildability, safety and maintainability, 'completeness & compliance' and technical suitability before use.
• Assists the Design Leader in promoting innovation in design management, methodology, processes and practices.
• Assist the Design Leader in promoting the application and adoption of the Company's vision and values in all design management activities.

What skills & experience are we looking for?

• Experience end to end in managing design - from concept to handover.
• First degree in Building Services / Civils & Geo / Other appropriate construction related qualification plus design related experience.
• Sector specialism as well as deep and broad experience managing the design of construction or building services projects.

Don't match all the criteria? We are open and always happy to hear from people with transferable skill sets and a commitment to learning.

About us:
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality - this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the 'Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email [e-mail]

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Company

We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

“As an engineering enterprise, Laing O'Rourke is committed to playing a vital role in building a stronger and more sustainable economy that benefits society in general.”

– Ray O’Rourke KBE, Chief Executive Officer

Our Origin Story:

Diversity & Inclusion:

Laing O'Rourke is committed to inclusion; an employer that maintains the highest standard of employment practice and one which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse society in which we live and work.

Laing O'Rourkebelieves that when we go to work, we should feel we are going to a place where we are accepted, understood and valued and that we should make others we work with feel this way too.

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION SUBCOMMITTEES

Laing O'Rourke have ten Diversity & Inclusion Subcommittees. The purpose of the diversity and inclusion sub-committees is to offer a safe and supportive environment to listen and share personal experiences and insights, as well as play a sympathetic role for each other.

The sub-committees help to drive education, events and initiatives across the organisation as well as help colleagues to understand their purpose.

Current subcommitteesinclude Dis-Ability, Carers, Ethnicity, Gender, Families that live abroad,LGBTQ+, Women & Menopause, & Working Families.

Support for Disabled Employees:

• LOR recruitment, HR Teams, Leadership and management have undertakendisability awareness trainingand are eager to provide an inclusive and accessibility experience to job applicants and new colleagues
• LOR Dis-ABILITY Subcommitteeis an Employee Network Group of colleagues passionate about disability inclusion. Its aims are to raise awareness and remove barriers around disability, neurodiversity and long term health conditions to support creating an inclusive and diverse workplace for everyone.
• Disability Confident Leaders– We are using the requirements of the government scheme to create an inclusive environment for disabled job applicants and existing colleagues.
• LOR are members of theBusiness Disability Forum, giving access to a wide range of resources and information. Our line managers have access to their best practice guides and confidential support line.
• LOR are partnering withEven Breakto have access to exemplary advice around disability inclusion.

Sustainability:

In April 2021 Laing O’Rourke announced new global sustainability targets. These include:

• To be a net zero company by 2050
• By 2033 to achieve equal gender balance across currently 5,500 international staff

Rewards andBenefits:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Pension – basic and enhanced schemes
• Health and Wellbeing
• Virtual GP
• Health Assessment (Age 50+)
• Phased return to work (80% of working week for 100% pay)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 5 days leave extra can be purchased
• Employee Discounts
• Allowances – car or transport allowance, depending on role/grade

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