Senior Design Manager

MWH Treatment; Rickmansworth; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in engineering seeks a Senior Design Manager to enhance its team. The role involves overseeing design projects, ensuring adherence to Health & Safety standards, and achieving cost-effective solutions while driving quality and sustainability. This position offers hybrid working flexibility and requires strong leadership and project management skills.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in leading design projects within engineering.
• Strong understanding of Health & Safety legislation.
• Ability to manage budgets and deliverables efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Lead design projects ensuring compliance with specifications and legislation.
• Manage design team to deliver efficient solutions within budget.
• Contribute to sustainability targets while maintaining quality standards.

Skills

Health & Safety Compliance

Project Management

Design Leadership

Cost Efficiency

Customer Service

Job description

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We are looking to strengthen our Engineering team with a Senior Design Manager based at our Maple Lodge office with hybrid working available.

You will report directly to the Regional Discipline Lead (DM), 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, programme expectations, project delivery processes, 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, requirements, and all relevant H&S legislation.
• Ensure that H&S hazards are identified and managed, and that all residual risks are communicated effectively to all stakeholders.
• Lead the Design team in delivering their responsibilities and ensure a focused approach to meet customer requirements and project objectives.
• Be accountable for expenditure, drive efficiency, and manage overall outturn costs for design by producing deliverables within allocated resource hours and key dates.
• Organise all elements of design, document them in the Design Management Plan, and prepare monthly status update reports as necessary.
• Attend and contribute to all relevant programme, project, and technical meetings.
• Ensure the technical solution outperforms on costs while maintaining quality standards and timely delivery.
• Provide technical support during construction, assembly, and commissioning stages as required.
• Ensure all technical work adheres to standards and specifications, following appropriate systems of work and quality assurance.
• Contribute to achieving sustainability targets, particularly by reducing embodied and operational carbon footprints of solutions.
• Communicate and work effectively with people from other partner organisations, backgrounds, and disciplines, utilising their knowledge and experience, and adding your own expertise.
• Recognise and provide exceptional customer service internally and externally, including with the client, their customers, and the public.
• Represent the entire MWH business and RSK Group of companies in client contacts and promote the MWH/RSK reputation.
• Maintain a positive, solution-oriented approach, providing open and honest feedback.
• Undertake other duties, training, or hours of work as reasonably required, consistent with the role's responsibilities.
• Present a professional and positive image of MWH Treatment in all internal and external contacts, maintaining constructive relationships.
• Take all reasonable steps to ensure confidentiality.