Design Manager

Advance Training & Recruitment Services; St Asaph; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car

Benefits package

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Advance Training & Recruitment Services is recruiting a Design Manager for its St. Asaph office in North Wales. You will lead a multi-disciplinary design team across AMP8 projects for Welsh Water, ensuring quality, compliance and programme delivery.

This role combines technical leadership with people management, workload planning and client liaison, with hybrid working (3 days in the office). Experience with NEC contracts, design lifecycle and QA standards is essential.

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing multi-disciplinary design teams in the Water infrastructure or related sectors.
• Degree or equivalent qualification in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical or Design Engineering.
• Strong understanding of clean and wastewater systems and processes.
• Experience working with NEC contracts and within framework agreements.
• Excellent understanding of the design lifecycle, including optioneering, outline design, detailed design and design reviews.
• Knowledge of WIMES, DWI requirements, relevant design codes and legislation.
• Good understanding of CDM 2015 Regulations and safety-by-design principles.
• Strong organisational and workload planning skills, with experience leading and mentoring multi-disciplinary teams across varied projects.
• Ability to provide strong technical leadership, make sound technical judgements and provide effective design governance.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build effective relationships with clients, consultants and project delivery teams.

Responsibilities

• Establishing and maintaining Framework Design Quality Plans and ensuring they are effectively rolled out across regional teams.
• Line managing the regional design team, providing both HR support and technical leadership.
• Acting as a key client point of contact for all design-related matters.
• Supporting regional design teams and acting as a point of escalation from project level through to framework level.
• Planning workloads and resources, allocating Design Leads and design teams across projects.
• Establishing effective working relationships with Design Consultants where required, including setting clear onboarding expectations and required levels of detail.
• Working closely with Framework Managers and providing design input at framework level.
• Supporting the Head of Design with the recruitment of design engineers across the framework.
• Working collaboratively with other Regional Design Managers and the Head of Design to ensure a consistent approach to QA compliance, process development and standardisation.
• Supporting the wider business with tenders and pre-qualification submissions.

Skills

Design management

Water infrastructure

NEC contracts

Stakeholder management

Leadership

QA compliance

Optioneering

Design reviews

Safety by design

Framework governance

Education

Degree in Civil/Mechanical/Electrical or Design Engineering

Tools

Design management software

Job description

Job Role: Design Manager

Salary / Rate: Circa £80,000 + Car / Car Allowance + Benefits

Location: St. Asaph, North Wales – Hybrid (3 days office-based)

Our client is looking to strengthen their Design team with a Design Manager based in their St. Asaph office in North Wales. Working across AMP8 projects for Welsh Water, the successful candidate will provide technical leadership and management to a multi-disciplinary regional design team, ensuring projects are delivered to the required standards of quality, compliance and programme.

About the Role:

As a Design Manager, you’ll be responsible for:

• Establishing and maintaining Framework Design Quality Plans and ensuring they are effectively rolled out across regional teams.
• Line managing the regional design team, providing both HR support and technical leadership.
• Acting as a key client point of contact for all design-related matters.
• Supporting regional design teams and acting as a point of escalation from project level through to framework level.
• Planning workloads and resources, allocating Design Leads and design teams across projects.
• Establishing effective working relationships with Design Consultants where required, including setting clear onboarding expectations and required levels of detail.
• Working closely with Framework Managers and providing design input at framework level.
• Supporting the Head of Design with the recruitment of design engineers across the framework.
• Working collaboratively with other Regional Design Managers and the Head of Design to ensure a consistent approach to QA compliance, process development and standardisation.
• Supporting the wider business with tenders and pre-qualification submissions.

About you:

• Proven experience managing multi-disciplinary design teams within the Water infrastructure or related sectors.
• Degree or equivalent qualification in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical or Design Engineering.
• Strong understanding of clean and wastewater systems and processes.
• Experience working with NEC contracts and within framework agreements.
• Excellent understanding of the design lifecycle, including optioneering, outline design, detailed design and design reviews.
• Knowledge of WIMES, DWI requirements, relevant design codes and legislation.
• Good understanding of CDM 2015 Regulations and safety-by-design principles.
• Strong organisational and workload planning skills, with experience leading and mentoring multi-disciplinary teams across varied projects.
• Ability to provide strong technical leadership, make sound technical judgements and provide effective design governance.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build effective relationships with clients, consultants and project delivery teams.
• Commercially aware, with the ability to consider cost, risk and programme when developing design solutions.
• Proactive and accountable, with the ability to take ownership of design delivery from client brief through to construction support.
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with a focus on collaboration, technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Passionate about quality, standardisation, innovation and developing high-performing design teams.
• Proficient in the use of design management software and systems.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.