Design Manager - Electrical bias - Prisons

ENGINEERINGUK; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled Electrical Design Manager to lead innovative design solutions for prison projects. This role involves ensuring compliance with design management procedures and enhancing the quality of engineering solutions. You will collaborate with consultants to optimize design processes and manage relationships effectively, while also capturing business knowledge for continuous improvement. Join a forward-thinking company with over 150 years of experience in delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure projects. If you are passionate about design management and looking for a rewarding opportunity, we would love to hear from you!

Qualifications

• Experience in managing design from concept to handover.
• Strong background in modular construction or prisons/justice projects.

Responsibilities

• Ensure design information is compliant with contractual obligations.
• Oversee design delivery and enhance quality of solutions.

Skills

Design Management

Project Management

Electrical Engineering

Design for Manufacture and Assembly

BIM/Digital Engineering

Consultancy Management

Education

First degree in Electrical Discipline

Other construction related qualification

Tools

BIM

Job description

You will need to login before you can apply for a job.

Sector: Creative and Design

Role: Manager

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time

Do you have experience in Prisons / Justice / Law and Order projects?

Are you passionate about exemplary Design Management?

Are you considering what's next for your career?

Then we would love to hear from you!

The Opportunity:

Laing O'Rourke have an opportunity for an Electrical Design Manager to join the team on our portfolio of prison projects based initially from our Sale, Manchester office. Current projects are based in Lancashire and Buckinghamshire where the role will ultimately be based when the project moves to site.

A Laing O'Rourke Design Manager ensures that all design information is reviewed and delivered in line with the design management procedures for completeness and compliance with contractual obligations, including factors such as programme, buildability, safety, maintenance and technical suitability. In addition, the Design Manager oversees the production, control and distribution of design information at different project stages and ensures regular progress reporting of the design is in place.

What will the role look like?

• Supporting our consultant teams to maximise their effectiveness and value optimisation in the provision of effective integrated design solutions that meet our clients' business needs (strategies and budgets).
• Maximising the effectiveness of consultant relationships.
• Reviewing design delivery to enhance quality of solutions and efficiency of design, procurement, manufacturing, assembly, commissioning and handover of total engineering excellent solutions for our clients.
• Supporting our consultants in adopting LOR's design processes, delivering with rigour and quality project management processes and ensuring effective collaboration throughout the supply chain (using appropriate tools for this including, but not limited to, BIM/Digital Engineering).
• Capturing business knowledge and capability enabling continuous improvement, innovation and improved capability towards an Engineering Enterprise.

Technical Capabilities:

• Creating and owning the design brief
• Design optimisation
• Design for Manufacture and Assembly
• Managing consultancies
• Information and Change Control
• Design compliance

What skills & experience are we looking for?

• Experience of prisons / justice projects
• Alternatively a strong modular construction background
• Experience end to end in managing design - from concept to handover.
• First degree in Electrical Discipline. 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.

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.

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.