Design Manager

Kier Group; Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Kier Group is seeking a Design Manager to join the Hogsmill STW team in Kingston Upon Thames. The role focuses on leading design throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring safe, compliant, buildable and sustainable solutions within a Tier 1 contractor environment.

You will coordinate multidisciplinary teams, drive design reviews, manage risks and engage with clients, regulators and suppliers to deliver on time and to budget.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent in civil, electrical, mechanical, or process engineering.
• Experience in water industry capital delivery.
• Experience managing design teams and consultants on contractor-led projects.
• Experience delivering design, assurance, risk and stakeholder management across the lifecycle.
• Membership of a relevant professional institution and a Full driving licence where required.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design process across all project stages, coordinating multidisciplinary design teams and milestones.
• Implement design reviews, buildability assessments and stage-gate assurance, with records and audit trails.
• Manage design risks, change control and technical queries, assessing impacts on safety, scope, cost and programme.
• Build effective relationships with clients, designers, suppliers and regulators, communicating progress and decisions.
• Support value engineering, commercial change and sustainability considerations, promoting innovation and continuous improvement.

Skills

Degree in engineering

Water sector exp

Multidisciplinary teams

Design delivery

Professional membership

Driving licence

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent

Job description

We’re looking for a Design Manager to join our Hogsmill STW team based in Kingston Upon Thames.

Location: Kingston Upon Thames
Hours: 45 per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

Join us as a Design Manager supporting the delivery of the major Hogsmill Sewage Treatment Works project for Thames Water. This is an exciting opportunity to lead the design process throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring design solutions are safe, compliant, coordinated, buildable and sustainable. You’ll be working within a Tier 1 contractor environment, coordinating multidisciplinary design teams and stakeholders to achieve programme, cost, quality and handover objectives on a project that strengthens resilience and protects the environment.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Design Manager, you’ll be working within the Hogsmill STW team, supporting them in delivering compliant, effective and sustainable design solutions. Your day to day will include:

• Leading the design process across all project stages, coordinating multidisciplinary design teams and managing deliverables to agreed milestones
• Implementing design reviews, buildability assessments and stage-gate assurance, maintaining records and audit trails
• Managing design risks, change control and technical queries, assessing impacts on safety, scope, cost and programme
• Building effective relationships with clients, designers, suppliers and regulators, communicating progress and decisions
• Supporting value engineering, commercial change and sustainability considerations, promoting innovation and continuous improvement

What are we looking for?

This role of Design Manager is great for you if:

• You have a degree, HND or equivalent qualification in civil, electrical, mechanical or process engineering, or demonstrable equivalent experience
• You have demonstrable experience working within the water industry, with an understanding of water and wastewater capital delivery
• You have proven experience managing multidisciplinary design teams and consultants within contractor-led construction or infrastructure projects
• You have experience managing design delivery, assurance, programmes, interfaces, risk and stakeholder relationships throughout the project lifecycle
• You hold membership of a relevant professional institution and a Full driving licence where required

We’re all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don’t tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards and benefits

We’re proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We’re proud of the steps we’ve taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier’s diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier #LI-CH1.