Design Manager - Mechanical bias - Prisons

ENGINEERINGUK; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Mechanical Design Manager to lead exciting prison projects. This role involves ensuring design excellence and compliance while managing relationships with consultants and overseeing the design process from concept to handover. You will play a crucial role in enhancing the quality and efficiency of design solutions, contributing to innovative infrastructure projects that make a difference. If you are passionate about design management and looking for a rewarding opportunity in a dynamic environment, this position could be your next career step.

Benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Pension Schemes

Health and Wellbeing Programs

Virtual GP Services

Health Assessment for Age 50+

Phased Return to Work

Employee Assistance Programme

Extra Leave Purchase Option

Employee Discounts

Car or Transport Allowance

Qualifications

• Experience in prisons or justice projects is essential.
• Strong modular construction background is a plus.
• End-to-end design management experience required.

Responsibilities

• Support consultant teams to deliver integrated design solutions.
• Ensure compliance with design management procedures.
• Oversee design information production and reporting.

Skills

Design Management

Mechanical Engineering

Project Management

Design Compliance

Consultancy Management

BIM/Digital Engineering

Education

First degree in Mechanical Discipline

Other construction-related qualification

Tools

BIM Software

Job description

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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.

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.

Diversity & Inclusion:
Laing O'Rourke is committed to inclusion; an employer that maintains the highest standard of employment practice and one which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse society in which we live and work.

Support for Disabled Employees:

• LOR recruitment, HR Teams, Leadership and management have undertaken disability awareness training and are eager to provide an inclusive and accessibility experience to job applicants and new colleagues.
• LOR Dis-ABILITY Subcommittee is an Employee Network Group of colleagues passionate about disability inclusion.
• Disability Confident Leaders– We are using the requirements of the government scheme to create an inclusive environment for disabled job applicants and existing colleagues.

Sustainability:
In April 2021 Laing O’Rourke announced new global sustainability targets. These include:

• To be a net zero company by 2050
• By 2033 to achieve equal gender balance across currently 5,500 international staff

Rewards and Benefits:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Pension – basic and enhanced schemes
• Health and Wellbeing
• Virtual GP
• Health Assessment (Age 50+)
• Phased return to work (80% of working week for 100% pay)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 5 days leave extra can be purchased
• Employee Discounts
• Allowances – car or transport allowance, depending on role/grade