Senior Design Manager

MWH Treatment; Chelmsford; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

MWH Treatment seeks a Senior Design Manager to enhance its Engineering team, primarily in the Essex & Suffolk region, supporting large-scale water and wastewater projects. This role offers hybrid working, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth while emphasizing Health & Safety and sustainability in design practices.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Hybrid working conditions

Pension scheme contribution

Health insurance

Private medical insurance

25 days holiday + Bank Holidays

Car/car allowance

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in a design-build environment.
• Delivery-driven with team management skills.
• Knowledge of CDM Regulations and construction Health & Safety.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Design team to meet customer and project objectives.
• Ensure compliance with Health & Safety standards in designs.
• Accountable for overall design costs and resource management.

Skills

Multi-disciplinary design management

Health & Safety Compliance

Customer Service Skills

Project Delivery

Strategic Planning

Education

Degree in an engineering-related discipline

Chartered Engineer status or path

APM Project Fundamentals Qualification

Job description

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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 are looking 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

About You

• 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.
  
  

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.
  
  

About Us

MWH Treatment is an integrated design and build provider working in the water sector. With over 1400 staff working across eight regional centres, supporting six long-term water sector frameworks and two recently won frameworks, operating both as a sole contractor but also in joint ventures and alliances.

At MWH Treatment we believe that people matter. We know to build successful, creative teams we need a diverse workforce that can deliver innovative ways of thinking. We provide an environment where you will have the freedom to develop and grow to your full potential, creating opportunity by inviting, embracing, and celebrating difference, our goal as an employer is to motivate, and develop our employees. By fostering a diverse range of talents and perspectives we ensure we have the breadth of viewpoints, experiences, and skills needed to succeed.Embracing diversity of all kinds enables us to provide a work environment and culture that plays a key role in attracting and retaining the right people with the right skills.

As signatories to the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant, we have made a promise to support our forces, working with the CTP to help ex veterans find work in the civilian world. We also support Mates in Mind, a charitable programme to improve and promote positive mental health in the workplace.We don’t just tick boxes; we live these values every day.

What MWH offer

Packages include -

A competitive salary

Hybrid Working(Jobs needs dependent)

Car/car allowance (Jobs needs dependent)

25 days holiday + Bank Holidays (with an additional 5 days available to buy)

Contribution Pension scheme

Life Assurance

Health Insurance

Private Medical Insurance

And many more benefits including – cycle to work scheme, discounts and savings Hub, Kids Pass etc

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology

• Industries

  Construction

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