Senior Design Coordinator - Civil Infrastructure

Barhale; Manchester; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company Pension

Life Assurance

Private Medical

25 days annual leave + bank holidays +

Volunteer days

Employee Assistance Programme

Flexible benefits via salary sacrifice

Company car/Van/Allowance

Leadership training

Job summary

Barhale, a leading civil engineering and infrastructure specialist, invites applications for a Lead Design Coordinator based in the Manchester area. The role focuses on controlling design budgets, ensuring timely, high-quality deliverables, and coordinating multi-disciplinary design development across projects.

You will implement Barhale’s Design Management Plan, manage design interfaces, and support project managers with cost tracking and procurement readiness.

Qualifications

• HNC/D in civil, electrical, mechanical or process engineering or equivalent level qualification.
• Process Safety/Hazard Management.
• CDM Regulations 2015 (for Designers preferred).
• Experience in working within a design and build environment.
• IT literate with the ability to use a wide range of IT packages, including the Microsoft Office suite.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to work on multiple tasks and work under pressure.

Responsibilities

• To comply with company procedures and work instructions, guide notes and other information that form part of the quality assurance, health and safety and environmental management systems.
• To co-ordinate multi-disciplinary design development, including design coordination meetings, buildability review and client reviews. This includes the design interface agreement, sharing of developing design information and formal issue.
• To establish integrated design programmes by working with the design teams and planners, tracking and monitoring design deliverables using design trackers and design development logs.
• To assist the Project Manager with tracking design cost to complete against agreed deliverables and instructions.
• Implement the Barhale design process and Design Management Plan to allocate projects.
• Facilitate interdisciplinary design review meetings.
• Review and accept the design documentation level of completeness before client submission, ensuring all design documentation is logged correctly.
• Collate all necessary design information for the Health & Safety file.
• To ensure all designs meet the necessary client specifications and any national standards, using the support of technical specialists where necessary.
• Carry out and implement technical governance (including the requirements schedule) at the beginning of all projects.
• Hold Challenge workshops at the commencement of the project and after the outline design.
• Review the Particular Specifications (PS) to ensure the minimum required information is submitted for procurement.
• Any other duties commensurate with the position as may be assigned from time to time

Skills

IT literacy

Attention to detail

Multitasking

Design coordination

Education

HNC/D in civil, electrical, mechanical or process engineering

Job description

Barhale, a leading civil engineering and infrastructure specialist, invites applications for a Lead Design Coordinator based in the Manchester area. The role focuses on controlling design budgets, ensuring timely, high-quality deliverables, and coordinating multi-disciplinary design development across projects.

You will implement Barhale’s Design Management Plan, manage design interfaces, and support project managers with cost tracking and procurement readiness.