Design Manager - Mechanical bias - Prisons

Laing O'Rourke; Manchester, Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Mechanical Design Manager to lead design management on prison projects. This role involves ensuring design compliance, managing consultant relationships, and delivering integrated design solutions that meet client needs. The successful candidate will be a senior member of the Design Job Family, contributing to technical excellence and innovation. If you're passionate about design management and have experience in justice projects or modular construction, this opportunity offers a chance to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment focused on delivering quality infrastructure solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience in prisons or justice projects is essential.
• Strong modular construction background is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Ensure design information is reviewed and compliant with contractual obligations.
• Maximise effectiveness of consultant relationships and design delivery.

Skills

Design Management

Mechanical Engineering

Project Management

Modular Construction

Design Compliance

Education

First degree in Mechanical Discipline

Other construction-related qualification

Tools

BIM/Digital Engineering

Job description

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 a Mechanical 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.

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' 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?

• 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 Mechanical 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.

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.

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.

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