Senior Design Manager

Job Description

Currie & Brown are looking for a Senior Design Manger to join our dynamic Infrastructure team in London.

Principal accountabilities

• Deliver effective design management on individual projects.
• Develop the project scope to satisfy the business need and support the business case.
• Develop the design for external design consultants, ensuring that the design contract is implemented and effectively managed through the design process.
• Seek safe and cost-effective design solutions to meet project requirements, working closely with Engineering Team to align designs to Relevant Technical Standards or to agree concessions from the standards we required.
• Manage external design consultants, ensuring that design outputs are reviewed, co-ordinated and meet quality requirements.
• Define, in collaboration with the Asset Information Team and other stakeholders as required, the asset information requirements within the Employers Information Requirements for both design and construction contracts
• Monitor, coordinate and provide technical input to any design changes throughout the construction and handover stages.
• Support the wider project team and CDM Advisor discharge Client’s statutory duties as a Principal Designer where applicable.
• Support the technical evaluation of potential contractors and consultants as required.
• Support the continuous improvement of project delivery (including design management) processes and procedures and implement process improvements as these are developed.
• Support the Project Manager as required with stakeholder management to support the delivery of projects, having consideration for the balance between operational disruption and project costs.
• Support the Construction Management Team with management of safety and quality on site, ensuring that the construction on site aligns with the design and that quality testing meets necessary requirements.
• Support the effective commissioning and handover of projects through review of as-built information, ensuring quality and completeness and what is delivered against contractual requirements.
• Ensure compliance with all legal and statutory obligations applicable to this role, including all standards and code compliance and required planning permissions.
• Lead any assigned Design Management resource, support the development of any such assigned resource; maintain standards, manage, motivate, coach and mentor as required.

Qualifications and experience

• Educated to Degree level preferably Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
• Qualifications – Charted Member of a recognised Engineering Institute highly desirable.
• Experience (typically associated with 5 to 8 years’ experience) in engineering design or design management on large infrastructure projects or multi-year programmes of work with a value typically in excess of £15m.
• Experience (typically associated with 1 to 3 years’ experience) of leading small teams of up to 2 to 3 people desirable.
• Experience of managing multiple, interfacing, concurrent design projects desirable.
• Good understanding of the importance of controlling and managing the project close out and handover process.
• Good understanding of Health Safety & Environmental issues associated with the construction industry.
• Strong practical problem-solving skills.
• Good understanding of construction techniques and constructability issues.
• Good understanding of monitoring the management of quality.
• Knowledge and understanding of NEC suite of contracts desirable. Experience of preparation of project manager instructions and respond to Contractor Claims desirable.
• Personal resilience and the ability to manage ambiguity.
• CSCS (Construction Skills Certification Scheme) card.