At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead design reviews, allocate resources, and produce design briefs for various project sizes.
- Company: Murphy is a leading engineering and construction firm with a focus on the civil engineering sector.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, opportunities for professional development, and a supportive work environment.
- Other info: Experience with BIM and CDEs is necessary for this role.
- Why this job: Join a dynamic team managing diverse projects in the water sector and enhance your design management skills.
- Qualifications: MEng or BEng degree required; significant design management experience in civil engineering is essential.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 75000 £ per year.
A day in the life of a Murphy Senior Design Manager:
- Lead on review of requirements at tender stage and allocate resources as appropriate during tender and upon successful award.
- Produce design briefs for permanent works.
- Provide review and technical oversight of submissions for quality and sufficiency to align with scope of works.
- Implement the Murphy Design Management assurance framework, ensuring effective control of design quality, programme, change management, design risk and readiness for construction.
- Lead design matters on small/medium/large/mega sized project/s as directed, allocating design tasks to individuals/companies as required and maintain associated RACI.
- Manage design managers/design co-ordinators on the projects, carry out staff appraisals when required and identify appropriate development activities.
- Support project delivery by coordinating with site delivery team to ensure appropriate consideration of constructability and temporary works to enable permanent works.
- Ensure that CDE system is kept up to date ensuring design deliverables and correct drawing revisions are maintained and issued/available to sites.
- Monitor, track, and report on Design progress, for programme, cost, and design metrics for all Design Consultants.
- Monitor, track and report on all Design Consultant performance and utilise escalation protocols as required, ensuring alignment with project requirements.
- Ensure compliance with Standards and Client requirements, and assist in monitoring to ensure working to agreed design requirements.
- Ensure a solid knowledge of, and an influence on the contracts Design Consultants are working under including their fees, schedule of services, programme, and liabilities and warranties.
Still interested, does this sound like you?
- MEng or BEng degree, HNC/HND (note Chartered Engineer is desirable).
- Significant Design Management experience.
- Experience in the civil engineering industry, specifically in water sector with heavy civils and/or MEICA as essential.
- Digitally competent and familiar with BIM, CDEs and Document management systems.
- Experience discharging Principal Designer duties.
- Experience managing people/teams.
Senior Design Manager employer: J. Murphy & Sons Limited
Murphy offers a competitive salary and opportunities for professional growth in the civil engineering industry. Located in the UK, the company focuses on delivering high-quality projects in the water sector. The team values innovation and collaboration, ensuring a strong impact on project outcomes.
We think you need these skills to ace Senior Design Manager
Design Management
Resource Allocation
Technical Oversight
Quality Assurance
Programme Management
Change Management
Design Risk Management
