My Client is recruiting for a Design Manager in the Water Sector
The Role
Deliver technical solutions in response to the needs of the company's programme of work. Take responsibility for the technical compliance, quality and appropriateness of solutions delivered.
Lead design consultants and multi-disciplinary engineering teams to deliver the design solutions to schedule and budget.
Support the project delivery teams by providing concept, basic and detailed design solutions based on client and site-specific requirements for clean water, wastewater and biosolids treatment solutions, pipelines, trunk mains, sewers, pumping stations and networks.
Ensure timely delivery of technical solutions in response to the needs of the project schedule and the company's programme of work.
Key Responsibilities
- Take ownership and accountability for the technical appropriateness of the project solutions delivered throughout the project life cycle.
- Ensure design work is correct and complies with the customer and statutory standards, regulations, and specifications.
- Manage the agreed contract with external design consultants, ensuring that duties are discharged under the contract and if not, that appropriate action is taken.
- Manage the development and delivery of appropriate, robust, reliable, operable, and maintainable asset designs that meet the project objectives.
- Management of multi-disciplinary teams of Engineers from within the business, consultants, and partner companies in the production of project solutions to the required level of design.
- Production and management of project engineering budgets and schedules for review by the head of engineering before submission to the Project Manager.
- Implement change control processes to track and manage the development of the Engineering element of a project to ensure all budgetary, programme and scope changes are correctly managed.
- Ensure that all engineering outputs provided are following Health and Safety Legislation, documented Business Processes, Quality Management Systems & best practices, e.g., checked and verified: calculations, drawings, specifications, and compliance with appropriate standards.
- Evaluate designs and solutions.
- Support supply chain selection for specialists' input on the design.
- Collaboration with other technical, operational, maintenance, and strategic stakeholders and design coordinators.
- Liaison with Engineering Managers, Project Managers and consultants concerning project issues, scope changes, risks, etc.
- Temporary Works: Understanding of what encompasses Temporary Works and the supporting engineering, understanding of the types of temporary works designs available and what responsibilities the associated roles (designer/coordinator/contractor) have and engagement of internal and external temporary works designers.
Audit and Governance:
- Ensure the Code of Conduct is thoroughly understood, adhered to, and promoted across the business to ensure safe, compliant, and consistent working practices.
- To operate in an open and even-handed manner with all personnel across the business.
- Treat all whom we interact with, with courtesy and respect, treating everyone equally and embracing differences.
- Encourage everyone to achieve maximum potential.
- To proactively contribute to teamwork and cross-functional working.
- To listen to each other and share knowledge enables us to willingly combine expertise across the business and with our clients and supply chain.
- Behaving with integrity and always demonstrating a professional image.
- To take personal responsibility & accountability for actions, constantly striving to improve and exceed expectations, ensuring safety and quality are never compromised/
Key Measures and Targets
- Accurate internal and external forecasting
- Ability to interrogate and challenge designs, reports and survey information
- Mitigate design risk, identify and realise opportunities
- Work to achieve profit in line with business unit expectations
- Maintaining deadlines in line with monthly reporting
- Produce high-quality comdesign trackers
- Foster and maintain excellent supply chain, stakeholder and client relationships
- Use planning tools to manage design programmes
Key Relationships
- Regional Managers, Engineering Managers, Operational Managers, and Contracts Managers
- Site Agents and Site team
- General Public
- Regional HSEQ team
- Quality and Technical Assurance Manager
- Communication team
Experience and Qualifications:
- Significant design and management experience ideally in the Water Sector
- Foul water drainage system
- Potable Water Mains
- Building Information Modelling (BIM) and common data environments
- Degree/HNC qualified, or equivalent, in Mechanical, Electrical or Process engineering (or similar)
- Member of a recognised engineering institution, Incorporated Engineer, or Chartered Engineer and or working towards membership
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to liaise effectively with both clients and staff
- Self-driven and results-oriented with a positive outlook
- People management, time management, and project design management
