Design Manager

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

Design Management

• Lead and manage the engineering design delivery for a portfolio of water treatment projects.
• Manage the development, implementation and management of Engineering Project Plans to control scope, programme, cost, risk and resources.
• In collaboration with the Senior Discipline Engineers (Process / Mechanical / Electrical / Civil), provide direction on suitable design methods for undertaking engineering design tasks.
• Using the principle of best for task, assess the complexity of your portfolio projects and assign suitably competent engineering resources to projects.
• Collaborate with the Senior Discipline Engineers and BIM Programme Manager to implement design quality procedures and monitor adherence to achieve a right first-time philosophy.
• Supplier and subcontractor design input – support the engagement, selection, contracting, management and integration of designs for your portfolio.
• End users – support your team to produce acceptable designs with consideration of health & safety, the environment, construction, procurement, the customer, and Anglian Water Operations.
• Conduct portfolio engineering design meetings and hold team members to account.
• Lead your team to collaborate with and support the Solutions (optioneering) Team, including taking responsibility for the design aspects for optioneering and the single solution.

Project Delivery

• One project team – work in partnership with and support the other @one functions (e.g. project management, enabling, procurement, construction) to deliver outcomes for your portfolio.
• Affordability – understand the project outcomes and obligations within your portfolio, and through the management of the engineering design, seek and deliver opportunities to achieve affordability and value.
• Delivery on Time – support the development and management of project programmes to achieve milestones and drive efficiencies.
• Sustainability – produce designs that contribute to enhancing the environment and reducing carbon.
• Risk, Opportunities & Value – contribute to the management of, including challenging designs and producing value driven outcomes.  Support your project design teams to identify and issue early warnings to the Project Managers and manage mitigation measures.
• Collaboration – engage with internal and external stakeholders to deliver the portfolio projects and obtain acceptance.

Health & Safety

• Construction Design & Management (CDM) Regulations – undertake delegated tasks of the Principal Designer and manage your team to comply with CDM procedures and regulations.
• Manage CDM competency assessments for your team and projects.
• Ensure the production of design risk assessments, manage the production of the pre-construction information, and the H&S File for your portfolio.
• Identify health, safety and welfare issues with team members and seek support to manage.
• Drive a strong health, safety and welfare culture within your team, including continuous improvement.

People/Team Development

• Provide clear, consistent, and visible leadership to your portfolio engineering design team.
• People Management – undertake for a multi-discipline team, including performance management, and the mentoring and development of team members to reach their potential.
•  Support creating a positive and fulfilling environment, where everyone is respected and heard, treated equally, recognised, and diversity is embraced.
•  Allocate resources to your portfolio projects based on priorities and complexity.  Identify competency gaps within your portfolio design team and support the recruitment of staff, and the use of global resources and suppliers.

Transformation

• Lead and drive a culture that inspires your portfolio engineering team to experiment, deliberately-deliver-differently, innovate, manage risk, and continuously improve performance.
• Support your team to reduce carbon and natural capital within designs.
• Embrace new digital technologies to achieve the goal of fully attributed 3D models.
• Lead the development of standardisation and product development within your portfolio.

Essential:

• An engineering, or equivalent, degree is required.
• Preferably chartered, or working towards, chartered status.
• Experience of water-sector assets and capital projects.
• Ideally, but not essential, experience of a Design & Build environment.
• Leading and managing people and teams.
• Managing designer’s responsibilities under CDM.