Design Manager / Senior Design Manager

MWH Treatment; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in the UK is seeking a Design Manager/Senior Design Manager to strengthen their Engineering team. This role involves leading design projects, ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations, managing costs, and delivering quality solutions. The ideal candidate has experience in managing design teams and a commitment to sustainability. Hybrid working is available.

Responsibilities

• Ensure H&S hazards are managed and communicated effectively.
• Lead the Design team to meet customer requirements.
• Accountable for design expenditure and overall costs.
• Organise design elements documenting in the Design Management Plan.
• Ensure technical solutions outperform on costs and maintain quality.
• Provide technical support during construction and commissioning.
• Achieve sustainability targets by reducing Carbon Footprints.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders and partner organisations.
• Recognise and deliver exceptional customer service.
• Represent MWH treatment and promote the company's reputation.
• Maintain positive and solution-oriented work relationships.

Job description

We arelooking to strengthen our Engineering team with a Design Manager / Senior Design Manager based at our Maple Lodge office with hybrid working available.

You will report directly to the Regional Discipline Lead (DM) and your role willlead projects through their design phases for a portfolio of projects. To ensure cost-effective, technically compliant, and buildable solutions are delivered in line with all stakeholder requirements, as well as in line with programme expectations and in accordance with the project delivery process and engineering design procedures.

Key responsibilities

• Be committed to excellence in Health & Safety (H&S) in design, complying fully with relevant local specifications, codes, rules, regulations and requirements and all relevant H&S legislation.
• To ensure that H&S hazards are identified and managed and that all residual risks are communicated effectively to all stakeholders.
• To lead the Design team in delivery of their responsibilities and to ensure a focused approach to meet customer requirements and project objectives.
• To be accountable for the expenditure, drive efficiency and manage the overall outturn costs for design by producing design deliverables within the allocated resource hours and by key dates.
• To organise all elements of design, documenting it in the Design Management Plan and preparing monthly status update reports as necessary.
• To attend and contribute to all relevant programme, project, and technical meetings.
• To ensure that the technical solution is produced to outperform on costs, whilst maintaining quality standards and delivery on time.
• To provide, where required, technical support during construction, assembly, and commissioning stages.
• To ensure that all technical work is undertaken to the correct standards and specifications, following the appropriate systems of work and quality assurance.
• To contribute to achieving sustainability targets, particularly by reducing embodied and operational Carbon Footprints of solutions.
• To communicate and work effectively with people from other partner organisations, backgrounds, and disciplines, utilising their knowledge and experience and add to this with your own experience and knowhow.
• To recognise and provide exceptional customer service both internally and with partners and externally with the client, their customers, and the general public.
• Represent the whole of the MWH business and RSK Group of companies in all client contacts and promote the MWH / RSK reputation.
• Maintain a positive and solution-oriented approach to work, providing open and honest feedback.
• Undertake such other duties, training and / or hours of work as may be reasonably required, and which are consistent with the general level of responsibility of this role.
• In all internal and external contact, present a professional and positive image of MWH Treatment as well as maintaining mutually constructive, positive and beneficial relationships.
• Take all reasonable steps to ensure appropriate confidentiality.