Senior Design Manager in Edinburgh

Work with Us. Change the World.

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Start here. Grow here.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Managing the Design Process
• Lead Design Management projects across the UK and Internationally.
• Management of AECOM financial process and invoicing.
• Review of work outputs from team prior to issue to ensure quality and compliance with contractual obligations.
• Managing Sub-consultants
• Prepare responsibility matrix to identify sub-consultant responsibility for each area of scope.
• Draft and distribute sub-consultant back-to-back contracts so that all scope is accounted for.
• Manage updates to sub-consultant contracts and prepare final documents.
• Prepare and update cash flow projections.
• Establish procedures for invoice submission for sub-consultants and monitor.
• Track and report on the progress of all sub-consultant invoices and prepare a monthly Financial Report.
• Establishment and Implementation of Design Management Procedures including:
• Roles and Responsibilities/Scope Delineation
• Preparing design programmes, monitoring and reporting progress
• Managing Deliverables/outputs
• Managing Design Quality
• Managing Design Budgets/Change
• Managing Approvals
• Organising Project Meetings & Design Workshops
• Managing Design Coordination
• Assist in the Management of the Design Management Team
• Achieve AECOM PM accreditation, take active role in management of design projects in accordance with AECOM financial systems and processes.
• Lead/Support Design Management projects across the UK and Internationally as appropriate.
• Assist in the development of junior Design Management team members through mentoring, training and reviews.
• Review work outputs from junior Design Management team members prior to issue to ensure quality and compliance with contractual obligations.
• Support the Design Management team Leadership as required.

If you're passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you. Join our team, where we don't just construct infrastructure but also uplift communities and enhance lives.

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? Here’s what we’re looking for:

• The jobholder will be expected to display a range of competencies, both behavioural and technical in undertaking the role. These are included in the Design Management Induction Plan and include areas such as:
• Understanding of the design process.
• Project and design programming skills.
• Experience in development and implementation of design management tools and procedures.
• Commercial awareness of projects.
• Construction knowledge/experience.
• Proficiency in MS Project/Excel/InDesign.

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role.