Senior Design Manager - Electrical bias - Life Sciences

TN United Kingdom; Manchester; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Design Manager to oversee design management for their Life Sciences and Healthcare portfolio. This role will involve leading the design process across multiple projects, ensuring technical excellence and compliance. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in electrical engineering, extensive experience in design management, and a passion for innovation. Join a dynamic team where your expertise will shape the future of construction projects, driving efficiency and collaboration to deliver exceptional results.

Qualifications

• 10 years' experience in design management for construction projects.
• Strong background in electrical engineering and design compliance.

Responsibilities

• Lead pre-construction phase design processes and manage design information.
• Ensure design compliance and promote innovation in design management.

Skills

Design Management

Electrical Engineering

Construction Management

Project Management

Education

Degree in Electrical Engineering

Construction related qualification

Tools

Design Software

Project Management Tools

Job description

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Client:

Laing O'Rourke

Location:

Manchester, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Posted:

02.05.2025

Expiry Date:

16.06.2025

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Job Description:

Are you passionate about exemplary Design Management?

Do you have contractor-side end to end Design Management experience?

Are you considering what's next for your career?

Then we would love to hear from you!!

The Opportunity:

Laing O'Rourke have an opportunity for a Senior Design Manager to join the team onour Life Sciences and Healthcare portfolio across the country. The role can be based from any of our Laing O'Rourke offices including; Dartford, Sale, Leeds, Newcastle, St Neots, Glasgow and the factory in Worksop.

A Laing O'Rourke Senior Design Manager leads the delivery of effective design across multiple projects, or a single large scale project. They provide a focus for, and lead the pre-construction phase design processes, liaising with the client, the design team, in-house bid team and the operations team. On live projects, they implement and lead the processes that enable the design to be challenged and interrogated within a collaborative team framework, to enable risks to be reduced.

The Laing O'Rourke Senior Design Manager is a senior member of the Design Job Family and Technical Function, which is there to ensure technical excellence, assurance and performance across all projects and opportunities from pre-project, early engagement and work winning through to detailed delivery. All of our designers are part of our Engineering Enterprise which aims to maximise and realise the potential of design to increase certainty on our projects.

What will the role look like?

• Providing a focus for and leading the pre construction phase briefing and design processes.
• Leading LOR's design management procedures, providing a functional link between the commercial and construction teams and the designers throughout the project life.
• Implementing the processes that enable the design to be challenged and interrogated within a collaborative team framework
• Implementing agreed processes for the production, control and distribution of design information at different project stages.
• Ensuring regular progress reporting of the design.
• Ensuring design information is thoroughly reviewed: for buildability, safety and maintainability, ‘completeness & compliance' and technical suitability before use.
• Assisting the Design Leader in promoting innovation in design management, methodology, processes and practices.
• Assisting the Design Leader in promoting the application and adoption of the Company's vision and values in all design management activities.

Technical Capabilities:

• Creating and owning the design brief
• Design for Manufacture and Assembly
• Information and Change Control
• Design compliance

What skills & experience are we looking for?

• First degree in Electrical Engineering. Other appropriate construction related qualification plus design related experience.
• Approx 10 years' experience. Has sector specialism as well as deep and broad experience managing the design of design – construction or building services projects. Likely to have international experience.

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Created on 02/05/2025 by TN United Kingdom