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Our client, a leading company in the Water industry, is seeking a talented Design Manager to join their team in Reading.
Experience Required for Design Manager:
- 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.
Responsibilities of Design Manager role:
- 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.
