Senior Design Manager

J. Murphy & Sons Ltd; Oxford; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Murphy is seeking a Senior Design Manager to lead design on complex civil projects in the water sector. You will drive design quality, allocate tasks, and maintain design deliverables and programmes. The role requires Chartered Engineer visibility, strong leadership, and BIM/CDE proficiency for project success.

Qualifications

• MEng or BEng degree, HNC/HND (Chartered Engineer desirable).
• Significant design management experience in civil engineering.
• Experience in water sector with heavy civils and/or MEICA essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead on design management across tender and delivery stages.
• Provide design oversight for quality and sufficiency to align with scope of works.
• Coordinate with site delivery teams to ensure constructability and temporary works considerations.

Skills

Design management

BIM

CDE

Document management

People management

Education

MEng/BEng with HNC/HND

Chartered Engineer desirable

Tools

BIM tools

CDE systems

Job description

Murphy is a leading international, specialist engineering and construction company founded in 1951 with a purpose to improve life by delivering world-class infrastructure. Operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada and America, Murphy provides better engineered solutions to infrastructure sectors including transportation; natural resources; energy and water.

Headquartered in London, Murphy has a number of related businesses – Ground Engineering; Utility Connections; Murphy Plant; Murphy Process Engineering; Pipeline Testing Services; Specialist Welding Services; and Electrical Services. Murphy is a specialist in delivering pipelines, design, structural steel, tunnelling, fabrication, bridges and piling, and has a substantial holding of plant, equipment and facilities.

Murphy employs around 4,000 engineers, professional managers and skilled operatives around the world. Together, they work as ‘One Murphy’ - directly delivering the people, plant and expertise needed to make projects a success. Visit (url removed) or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and X:

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A day in the life of a Murphy Senior Design Manager:

• Lead on review of requirements at tender stage and allocate resources as appropriate during tender and upon successful award
• Produce design briefs for permanent works
• Provide review and technical oversight of submissions for quality and sufficiency to align with scope of works
• Implement the Murphy Design Management assurance framework, ensuring effective control of design quality, programme, change management, design risk and readiness for construction
• Lead design matters on small/medium/large/mega sized project/s as directed, allocating design tasks to individuals/companies as required and maintain associated RACI
• Manage design managers/design co-ordinators on the projects, carry out staff appraisals when required and identify appropriate development activities.
• Support project delivery by coordinating with site delivery team to ensure appropriate consideration of constructability and temporary works to enable permanent works
• Ensure that that CDE system is kept up to date ensuring design deliverables and correct drawing revisions are maintained and issued/available to sites
• Monitor, track, and report on Design progress, for programme, cost, and design metrics for all Design Consultants
• Monitor, track and report on all Design Consultant performance and utilise escalation protocols as required, ensuring alignment with project requirements
• Ensure compliance with Standards and Client requirements, and assist in monitoring to ensure working to agreed design requirements
• Ensure a solid knowledge of, and an influence on the contracts Design Consultants are working under including their fees, schedule of services, programme, and liabilities and warranties

Still interested, does this sound like you?

• MEng or BEng degree, HNC/HND (note Chartered Engineer is desirable)
• Significant Design Management experience
• Experience in the civil engineering industry, specifically in water sector with heavy civils and/or MEICA as essential
• Digitally competent and familiar with BIM, CDEs and Document management systems
• Experience discharging Principal Designer duties
• Experience managing people/teams