My Client is recruiting for a Senior Design Manager in the Water Sector.
We are looking to strengthen our Engineering team with a Senior Design Manager based in Southampton, with hybrid working available.
You will report directly to the Engineering Manager and your role will lead projects through their design phases for a portfolio of projects. Your responsibilities include ensuring cost-effective, technically compliant, and buildable solutions are delivered in line with all stakeholder requirements, programme expectations, and in accordance with the project delivery process and engineering design procedures.
Responsibilities
* Be committed to excellence in Health & Safety (H&S) in design, complying fully with relevant local specifications, codes, rules, regulations and requirements and all relevant H&S legislation.
* Ensure H&S hazards are identified and managed and that all residual risks are communicated effectively to all stakeholders.
* Lead the Design team in delivery of their responsibilities and ensure a focused approach to meet customer requirements and project objectives.
* Be accountable for the expenditure, drive efficiency and manage the overall outturn costs for design by producing design deliverables within the allocated resource hours and by key dates.
* Organise all elements of design, documenting it in the Design Management Plan and preparing monthly status update reports as necessary.
* Attend and contribute to all relevant programme, project, and technical meetings.
* Ensure that the technical solution is produced to outperform on costs, whilst maintaining quality standards and delivery on time.
* Provide, where required, technical support during construction, assembly, and commissioning stages.
* Ensure that all technical work is undertaken to the correct standards and specifications, following the 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 to this with your own experience and knowhow.
* Recognise and provide exceptional customer service both internally and with partners and externally with the client, their customers, and the general public.
* Represent the whole of the business and Group of companies in all client contacts and promote the Company reputation.
* Maintain a positive and solution-oriented approach to work, providing open and honest feedback.
* Undertake such other duties, training and/or hours of work as may be reasonably required, and which are consistent with the general level of responsibility of this role.
* In all internal and external contact, present a professional and positive image of The Group as well as maintaining mutually constructive, positive and beneficial relationships.
* Take all reasonable steps to ensure appropriate confidentiality.
Experience and Qualifications
* Extensive experience of multi-disciplinary design management, in a design-build environment.
* Degree in an engineering-related discipline.
* Chartered Engineer in an engineering-related discipline.
* APM Project Fundamentals qualification.
* Must be delivery-driven with the ability to set targets and manage and motivate multi-disciplinary teams to deliver to time, cost and quality objectives.
* Working knowledge of CDM regulations and construction Health & Safety.
* Extensive experience in large-scale project delivery.
* Strategic, operational, technical and management skills.
* Good general knowledge of all aspects of water treatment e.g., related process, civil and MEICA engineering aspects.
* Ability to present technical proposals clearly, confidently and convincingly.
* Experience in the Water/Wastewater Treatment Industry.
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