Design Manager/Senior Design Manager - Water

Lanesra Technical Recruitment; Maple Cross; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction firm is seeking a Design Manager/Senior Design Manager for Thames Water projects with hybrid working in Rickmansworth. The role involves leading design phases, ensuring compliance with safety standards, and managing costs. Ideal candidates have extensive design management experience, an engineering degree, and knowledge of water treatment. The position offers a competitive salary between £75,000 - £85,000 plus benefits.

Benefits

Car allowance

Bonus

Excellent benefits

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in multi-disciplinary design management.
• Ability to set targets and manage multi-disciplinary teams.
• Good general knowledge of water treatment processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects through design phases for multiple projects.
• Ensure cost-effective and technically compliant solutions.
• Attend relevant programme and technical meetings.

Skills

Multi-disciplinary design management

Delivery-driven

Strategic skills

Water treatment knowledge

Education

Degree in engineering-related discipline

Chartered Engineer

Job description

Overview

Position: Design Manager/Senior Design Manager - Thames Water AMP8 Projects

Location: Rickmansworth (With Hybrid Working)

Salary: £75,000 - £85,000 Plus Car/Allowance, Bonus and Excellent Benefits

Our client is a Tier 1 D&B Contractor operating predominately in the water industry, who are delivering a number of water and wastewater non-infrastructure projects for Thames Water and they are recruiting for Design Managers or Senior Design Managers to be based from one of their office near Rickmansworth with hybrid working available.

In this role you will lead 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Ensure that H&S hazards are identified and managed and that all residual risks are communicated effectively to all stakeholders.
• Lead the Design team in delivery of their responsibilities and to ensure a focused approach to meet customer requirements and project objectives.
• Acountable 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.
• Organise all elements of design, documenting it in the Design Management Plan and preparing monthly status update reports as necessary.
• Attend and contribute to all relevant programme, project, and technical meetings.
• Ensure that the technical solution is produced to outperform on costs, whilst maintaining quality standards and delivery on time.
• Provide technical support during construction, assembly, and commissioning stages.
• Ensure that all technical work is undertaken to the correct standards and specifications, following the appropriate systems of work and quality assurance.
• Contribute to achieving sustainability targets, particularly by reducing embodied and operational Carbon Footprints of solutions.
• Maintain a positive and solution-oriented approach to work, providing open and honest feedback.

Skills, Qualifications & Experience

• Extensive experience of multi-disciplinary design management, in a design-build environment.
• Degree in an engineering-related discipline.
• Chartered Engineer in an engineering-related discipline.
• Must be delivery-driven with the ability to set targets and manage and motivate multi-disciplinary teams to deliver to time, cost and quality objectives.
• Working knowledge of CDM and construction Health & Safety.
• Extensive experience in large-scale project delivery.
• Strategic, operational, technical and management skills.
• Good general knowledge of all aspects of water treatment e.g., related process, civil and MEICA engineering aspects.
• Ability to present technical proposals clearly, confidently, and convincingly.

Desirable

• Working towards or have obtain APM Project Management Qualification.
• Experience of working for a global organisation.
• Experience of working with remote/dispersed teams.
• Experience in the Water/Wastewater Treatment Industry.
• Ability to embrace collaborative and innovative working.
• Knowledge of BIM procedures and techniques