Design Manager Civil Engineering

Role: Design Manager (Civil Engineering)

Salary: Depending on Experience / Very Competitive

Location: St Albans

Benefits:

As well as offering a competitive salary, remuneration for this role includes flexible benefits, which provide a range of guaranteed benefits including but not limited to:

• 5% Company pension contribution
• Life Assurance at 2 x notional salary
• Single person’s private medical cover
• Permanent Health Cover

About the client:

• They are one of the largest privately-owned civil engineering and infrastructure specialists with over 35 years of experience working UK-wide across the water, transport, built environment and energy sectors.

What they do:

They provide design, construction, and maintenance services to the following sectors. 

• Water
• Transport
• Energy
• Built Environment

They also possess a range of specialist skills to support our civil engineering and infrastructure activities including;

• Tunnelling
• MEICA capabilities
• In-house design
• A steel-fabrication and supply subsidiary (BCS Group)

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-discipline 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-discipline 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.

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

Person Specification:

The successful candidate is likely to meet all the following criteria:

Essential 

• Minimum 10 years of design and management experience
• Foul water drainage system
• Portable Water Mains
• Building Information Modeling (BIM) and common data environments
• Degree/HNC qualified, or equivalent, in civil engineering
• Member of a recognized 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, project design management