Senior Design Manager

Kier Construction; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Design Manager to join their Natural Resources team. This exciting role involves leading engineering design delivery on significant water and wastewater projects, ensuring high-quality performance while collaborating with a multi-discipline technical team. With a focus on sustainable practices and innovative solutions, you will play a crucial part in the success of a major 7-year framework. If you're a Chartered Engineer with a passion for driving results and enhancing project outcomes, this opportunity is perfect for you to make a meaningful impact in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Chartered Engineer status with a degree in engineering discipline.
• Proven engineering design and management experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage engineering design delivery for assigned projects.
• Ensure design solutions are understood and meet client needs.

Skills

Engineering Design

Project Management

Water Treatment Processes

Quality Procedures

Asset Management

Education

Degree in Engineering

Job description

We're looking for a Senior Design Manager to join our Natural Resources team, working from home and the Falmer office, East Sussex. You'll be working on our new 7-year, c£1bn framework with Southern Water.

Location: agile working from home and the Falmer office, East Sussex

Contract: Permanent, Full Time – flexible and part-time hours may be available if desired, just let us know.

Responsibilities

We're looking for a Senior Design Manager to join our NRNN business unit. Working on Water and Wastewater capital projects across the Southern Water patch, this role will lead and manage engineering design delivery for assigned projects. Spearheading and optimising the engineering assurance process for designs prepared by partners at outline design and Capital Delivery partners at tender and construction design.

Your Day To Day Will Include

• Develop strategies including in-depth consideration of various alternatives and options to find the best/preferred solution.
• Ensure that the design solution is fully understood by engaging with the client and then using your experience of asset management to offer solutions.
• Fulfil the role of main point of contact with the design consultants at director level to ensure the correct level of technical performance.
• Lead and manage engineering design delivery for assigned projects.
• Provide expert engineering support to the design, construction and commissioning process from project definition through to detailed design, construction, commissioning and handover of capital schemes.

What are we looking for?

This Senior Design Manager is great for you if you have:

• Chartered Engineer status with a degree level qualification (or equivalent) in an engineering discipline.
• Significant, proven relevant engineering design, construction and management experience.
• Experience of managing and driving a multi-discipline technical/engineering team with a proven track record of driving sustainable performance against challenging business targets.
• Significant knowledge of water and wastewater treatment processes.
• Experience in the application of quality procedures and document control in engineering design.

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

If you would like to explore more about the incredible growth and scale of our water business, dive into our diverse project portfolios, and uncover both current and future career opportunities.

Rewards And Benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs.

Diversity and Inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.