Design Manager

The Design Manager is a key role in the Design Management Group which works closely with Delivery Project Management, the Chief Engineering Group and other MDjv support functions to discharge MDjv's primary Lead Designer obligations to:

• Lead on all aspects of design, including co-ordination, submission, compliance, programming and management of design, engineering and assurance.
• Manage integration of the works within themselves, and with interfacing stakeholders and contracts.
• Certify that design, construction, testing, commissioning, and handover of the works meet the requirements.
• Support the Principal Designer to discharge its Principal Designer obligations.

The successful applicant will receive a formal notification of the Lead Designer duties delegated to them.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Senior Design Manager with project level design management activities and lead all package level design management activities with the support of the Senior Design Manager.
• Project level design management activities include:

• Ensuring project's design scope and requirements are clear and have been formally baselined.
• Developing the design completion strategy to identify the extent of Design Consultant and CDP subcontractor design responsibility.
• Establish and procure the consultant design team and produce scopes of service.
• Overseeing that the design and model maturity the project's strategies and components should be developed to at each design stage are agreed.
• Establishing and agreeing the project's design deliverable requirements for:

• Design acceptance against requirements
• Cost and programme assurance
• Procurement
• Consents

• Ensuring requirements are correctly allocated to consultant and subcontractor design packages.
• Define and agree consultant and subcontractor design package scopes.
• Define and agree design package programmes and key dates.
• Agree TIDPs with the designers and produce MIDPs for deliverables to be issued to HS2.
• Chair and minute package level meetings including design progress meetings, coordination meetings, external interface coordination meetings.
• Monitor and report on actual vs planned progress and escalate key issues to the Senior Design Manager and other key project roles.
• Identify, manage and report on package level risks.
• Monitor that CDM risk registers are developed and maintained by the consultants and that they mitigate risks appropriately.
• Chair CDM risk handover meetings to the delivery project management team and project operators/maintainers.
• Manage package designs submissions, monitor design review progress and close out deliverable rejections and comments.
• Monitor design packages are appropriately checked and certified and support design package assurance activity.

Technical Skills And Competencies

• Sufficient technical knowledge of the design to be able to manage design packages effectively.
• Experience managing and driving multi-disciplinary design teams and good appreciation of their common shortfalls and how to manage them.
• Comfortable working in large project teams.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills.
• Good knowledge of construction processes and sequencing.
• Proficiency and experience with design authorship software such as Bentley Open Buildings Designer or Autodesk Revit.
• Solid working knowledge of Building Information Modelling and Model Coordination activities and workflows.
• Ability to navigate complex Common Data Environments and ideally experienced with Aconex, Asite, Projectwise and Assetwise.
• Good ability to plan and forecast and experienced with design programming including good understanding of programme logic and dependencies.
• Ideally experienced using simple planning software such as Aphex or Smartsheets.
• Excellent communication skills (including presentation skills) in English, both written and verbal and the ability to report at package level.
• Good, confident interpersonal skills and ability to maintain good internal and external relationships as well as control high pressure situations and topics.
• Proficiency with data management and analysis including experienced user of MS Excel and ability to use basic formulas to manipulate data for planning and reporting purposes.
• Good working knowledge of health and safety in design including:

• Construction Design and Management Regulations 2015
• Building Safety Act 2022
• Other relevant legislation

Qualifications, Certifications And Experience

• Experience within a similar role within an appropriately sized contracting organisation.
• Educated to degree (or equivalent) in a technical discipline, typically engineering or architectural.
• Membership of an appropriate professional body, typically chartered member of Institute of Civil Engineering or an international equivalent professional status.

Behavioural competencies

• Fulfils HS2 values, behaviours and core competencies, including:

• Engages with a wide range of colleagues and stakeholders in pursuit of objectives.
• Communicates confidently with a range of people, adapting communication style to have a positive impact.
• Drives results by striving to achieve challenging goals, demonstrating resilience and perseverance in the face of adversity.
• Demonstrates commitment to developing own and others' professional and industry knowledge.
• Demonstrates sound analytical ability, appreciating complex issues and situations.
• Demonstrates flexibility in thought and approach, managing multiple competing demands within the wider strategic context.

HS2 Values

• Leadership: Using innovation and challenge to lead by example.
• Respect: Understanding others, recognising their value and behaving accordingly.
• Safety: Caring for our workforce, passengers and the public by creating an environment where no one gets hurt.
• Integrity: Acting fairly, transparently, and consistently.

Dragados Values

• Excellence: Promoting innovation, development, training and continuous improvement to achieve the highest quality of project delivery.
• Integrity: Acting ethically and transparently. Demanding the best standards of integrity from its employees, suppliers and other stakeholders.
• Trust: Nurturing positive relationships at all levels of the organisation, with our clients and supply chain by developing strong and long-term relationships based on mutual trust.
• Sustainability: Commitment to sustainable development to make an efficient and ethically responsible contribution to society and the environment.
• Profitability: Ensuring our profitability as well as contributing value to the communities in which we operate as part of our sustainability agenda.

Dragados is committed to act based on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion principles. Equal opportunities, non-discrimination and respect for human rights are basic principles contained in the Dragados Code of Conduct that apply to all Dragados employees.

Department

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: 40

Salary: competitive