Senior Design Manager

MWH Treatment Limited; Chelmsford; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm is seeking a Senior Design Manager in Chelmsford. The role involves managing multi-disciplinary design teams, ensuring compliance with Health & Safety standards, and delivering large-scale water and wastewater projects. Candidates should have extensive design management experience, a relevant engineering degree, and preferably be a Chartered Engineer. Hybrid working options and competitive salaries are available.

Benefits

Flexible work conditions

Competitive remuneration packages

Qualifications

• Extensive experience of multi-disciplinary design management in a design-build environment.
• Delivery-driven with ability to set targets and manage multi-disciplinary teams.
• Good general knowledge of water/wastewater treatment processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Design team in delivering project objectives.
• Ensure Health & Safety hazards are identified and managed.
• Contribute to achieving sustainability targets.

Skills

Multi-disciplinary design management

Health & Safety compliance

Customer service

Strategic and operational skills

Collaborative working

Education

Degree in an engineering-related discipline

Chartered Engineer status or on path

APM Project Fundamentals Qualification

Tools

BIM procedures and techniques

Job description

As MWH Treatment embarks on its new journey as one of Northumbrian Water’s (NWL) capital delivery partners (part of NWL’s new Living Water Enterprise Organisation), we arelooking to strengthen our Engineering team with a Senior Design Manager. Based predominantly in the Essex & Suffolk region, you will report directly to the Regional Discipline Lead (Design Management). This role will necessitate traveling to other MWH regions initially to embed and support your career within the MWH Treatment culture.

Our programme of work, across a variety of water and wastewater schemes is expected to be in the region of £280M.

Offering hybrid working conditions and competitive remuneration packages, at MWH Treatment (part of the RSK group) we strive to create and deliver practical, sustainable outcomes. Our engineers pioneer and perfect demonstrable solutions, whilst the variety and interest in our work provides a platform to allow our people to continue to master their subject and build fruitful and purposeful careers.

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.

Essential: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 or on a clear path to get Chartered.APM Project Fundamentals Qualification.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 Regulations 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/wastewater treatment e.g., related process, civil and MEICA engineering aspects.Ability to present technical proposals clearly, confidently, and convincingly.DesirableWorking 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 .