Senior Design Manager

AndersElite

Chorleywood

Hybrid

GBP 85,000 - 115,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Competitive salary

Pension contribution

Life assurance

Health insurance

Job summary

Anders Elite is seeking a Senior Design Manager to be based at our North West Thames office with hybrid working available. You will lead projects through design phases, reporting to the Regional Discipline Lead, ensuring cost-effective, compliant and buildable solutions aligned with programme requirements.

The role requires extensive cross-disciplinary design management experience, a degree in engineering, chartered status, and qualifications in project management.

Qualifications

Extensive experience of multi-disciplinary design management in a design-build environment.
Engineering degree in a relevant discipline.
Chartered Engineer in an engineering discipline.
APM Project Fundamentals Qualification.
Delivery-driven with ability to set targets and manage multi-disciplinary teams 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 water treatment processes.

Responsibilities

Lead the Design team in delivery of responsibilities and to ensure a focused approach to meet customer requirements and project objectives.
Ensure H&S in design and compliance with regulations and local specifications.
Manage expenditure and drive efficiency to control design outturn costs.
Organise all elements of design and document in the Design Management Plan with monthly status updates.
Attend and contribute to programme, project and technical meetings.
Ensure technical solutions are cost-effective, high quality and on time.
Provide technical support during construction, assembly and commissioning stages.
Follow QA systems of work and confidentiality.

Skills

Delivery-driven

Target setting

Multi-disciplinary leadership

Team motivation

Stakeholder management

Education

Engineering degree

Chartered Engineer

APM Project Fundamentals Qualification

Tools

BIM

Job description

We are looking to strengthen our Engineering team with a Senior Design Manager and a Design Manager based at our North West Thames office with hybrid working available.

You will report directly to the Regional Discipline Lead and your role 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.

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
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 as well as maintaining mutually constructive, positive and beneficial relationships.
Take all reasonable steps to ensure appropriate confidentiality.

About The Candidate

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.
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 treatment e.g., related process, civil and MEICA engineering aspects.
Ability to present technical proposals clearly, confidently, and convincingly.

Desirable