Senior Design Manager in Southampton

Location: Southampton (Hybrid working available)

Sector: Water / Utilities / Civil Engineering / MEICA

Finlay Jude Associates are recruiting for a Senior Design Manager to report directly to the Engineering Manager. Your role will lead projects through their design phases for a portfolio of projects, ensuring cost-effective, technically compliant, and buildable solutions are delivered in line with all stakeholder requirements, as well as in accordance with the project delivery process and engineering design procedures.

Company Benefits:

• Hybrid Working
• Car/car allowance (Jobs needs dependent)
• 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays (with an additional 5 days available to buy)
• Contribution Pension scheme
• Life Assurance
• Health Insurance
• Private Medical Insurance
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounts and savings Hub
• Kids Pass

Key Responsibilities:

• Be committed to excellence in Health & Safety (H&S) in design, complying fully with relevant local specifications, codes, rules, regulations and requirements and all relevant H&S legislation.
• Ensure that H&S hazards are identified and managed and that all residual risks are communicated effectively to all stakeholders.
• Lead the Design team in delivery of their responsibilities and ensure a focused approach to meet customer requirements and project objectives.
• Be accountable for the expenditure, drive efficiency and manage the overall outturn costs for design by producing design deliverables within the allocated resource hours and by key dates.
• Organise all elements of design, documenting it in the Design Management Plan and preparing monthly status update reports as necessary.
• Attend and contribute to all relevant programme, project, and technical meetings.
• Ensure that the technical solution is produced to outperform on costs, whilst maintaining quality standards and delivery on time.
• Provide, where required, technical support during construction, assembly, and commissioning stages.
• Ensure that all technical work is undertaken to the correct standards and specifications, following the appropriate systems of work and quality assurance.
• Contribute to achieving sustainability targets, particularly by reducing embodied and operational Carbon Footprints of solutions.
• Communicate and work effectively with people from other partner organisations, backgrounds, and disciplines, utilising their knowledge and experience and adding to this with your own experience and knowhow.

Essential About You:

• Extensive experience of multi-disciplinary design management, in a design-build environment.
• Degree in an engineering-related discipline.
• Chartered Engineer in an engineering-related discipline.
• APM Project Fundamentals Qualification.
• Delivery-driven with the ability to set targets and manage and motivate multi-disciplinary teams to deliver to time, cost and quality objectives.
• Working knowledge of CDM regulations and construction Health & Safety.
• Extensive experience in large-scale project delivery.
• Strategic, operational, technical and management skills.
• Good general knowledge of all aspects of water treatment e.g., related process, civil and MEICA engineering aspects.
• Ability to present technical proposals clearly, confidently, and convincingly.

Desirable:

• Working towards or have obtained APM Project Management Qualification.
• Experience of working for a global organisation.
• Experience of working with remote/dispersed teams.
• Experience in the Water/Wastewater Treatment Industry.
• Ability to embrace collaborative and innovative working.
• Knowledge of BIM procedures and techniques.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a major contractor delivering essential infrastructure, offering long-term career prospects and professional growth within the water sector. If you’re hands-on, dependable, and ready to start a new career, we’d love to hear from you.

If you are interested in applying for this position, then click the ‘apply now’ button. Due to the high volume of applications we receive we are not always able to reply to all applications. If you haven’t heard back from us within 2 weeks, then please accept that your application has been unsuccessful for the role we currently have advertised.

Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person’s gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability, or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications, and abilities to perform the duties of the job.

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