Design Manager - Mechanical - Aviation

Laing O'Rourke; Dartford; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international engineering and construction company seeks a Design Manager for aviation projects in Greater London. The role involves overseeing design processes, ensuring compliance, and maximizing design effectiveness. Ideal candidates will have a Mechanical Engineering degree and substantial design experience.

Qualifications

• Approx 5 years' experience in managing design from concept to handover.
• Experience in different procurement routes and sectors.

Responsibilities

• Support consultant teams for effective integrated design solutions.
• Maximise consultant relationships and enhance design quality.
• Ensure compliance with design management procedures.

Skills

Design Management

Mechanical Engineering

Collaboration

Quality Assurance

Education

First degree in Mechanical Engineering

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Do you have experience in Aviation / Airport 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!!

The Opportunity

Laing O'Rourke are currently recruiting for a Mechanically biased Design Manager for an aviation / airport project in Greater London. 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.

The Laing O'Rourke Design Manager is 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 of 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?

• Supporting our consultant teams to maximise their effectiveness and value optimisation in the provision of effective integrated design solutions that meet our clients our 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, deliver with rigour and quality project management processes and to ensure 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?

• First degree in Mechanical Engineering. Other appropriate construction related qualification plus design related experience.
• Approx 5 years' experience. Different procurement routes, different sector experience. Experience end to end in managing design – from concept to handover.
  
  

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.

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