Design Manager – Electricity Transmission (On-Site)

Lynx Employment Services Ltd; Nechells; On-site; GBP 62,000 - 70,000; Part time

Job summary

Lynx Employment Services Ltd is recruiting an experienced Design Manager to support a portfolio of major electricity transmission projects. The role requires coordinating design activities across schemes and delivering outputs on time and to required standards.

You will work on-site at Birmingham with a minimum of three days per week, operate under an Inside IR35 contract for 36 months, and manage design programmes, approvals, and changes while mentoring junior designers.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years in design management or a related role.
• Experience coordinating design inputs across multidisciplinary teams.
• Previous responsibility for design activities across multiple projects.
• Experience within UK electricity transmission or major infrastructure.
• Strong design programme management and technical assurance experience.
• Knowledge of NEC change-control processes, including early warnings and compensation events.
• Strong stakeholder management and project leadership experience.
• Familiarity with National Grid standards and project expectations.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and monitor design programmes across multiple projects.
• Coordinate design activities with planning, procurement and construction teams.
• Lead design reviews and coordinate multidisciplinary design teams.
• Ensure designs meet technical, assurance and CDM requirements.
• Manage assurance submissions, hold-point reviews and gateway approvals.
• Maintain design change registers and manage early warnings and compensation events.
• Assess the impact of design changes on cost, programme and risk.
• Manage RFIs, technical queries and design communications.
• Liaise with clients, designers, OEMs, subcontractors and delivery teams.
• Identify and manage temporary and permanent works design risks.
• Support tender development and pre-construction activities.
• Promote buildability, standardisation, lessons learned and continuous improvement.
• Support and mentor Assistant Design Managers where required.

Skills

Design management

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Project coordination

8+ years experience

Education

Degree in engineering

Job description

Lynx Employment Services Ltd is recruiting an experienced Design Manager to support a portfolio of major electricity transmission projects. The role requires coordinating design activities across schemes and delivering outputs on time and to required standards.

You will work on-site at Birmingham with a minimum of three days per week, operate under an Inside IR35 contract for 36 months, and manage design programmes, approvals, and changes while mentoring junior designers.