Senior Design Manager in Oxford

Murphy is recruiting for a Senior Design Manager to join our team and take the lead on a diverse portfolio of infrastructure and non-infrastructure water schemes, including PMEICA, civils, and subcontractor management, in partnership with Thames Water, as part of the AMP8 programme.

Murphy is a long-standing delivery partner to leading water clients across the UK and Ireland, where we operate over 25 facilities under full DBOM contracts.

• 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 the 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.

• MEng or BEng degree, HNC/HND (note Chartered Engineer is desirable).
• 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 managing people/teams.

• 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays with the option to buy an additional 2 days holiday each year, holidays increase with length of service.
• Discretionary annual bonus and annual salary review.
• Above market rate contributory pension scheme.
• Life assurance, health screening and enhanced sick pay.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay and a maternity returners bonus.
• Extra weeks holiday for all employees getting married and a wedding bonus.
• Subsidised canteen facilities in core locations.
• Dedicated and continued investment in your professional development.
• Other Murphy benefits include retail discounts and cashback, discounted gym memberships, cycle to work scheme etc.

Murphy is formally recognised as a sector leading employer, Platinum Investors In People accredited along with reported operating profit up 57% on prior year. At Murphy, we are incredibly proud of our diverse workforce. Not only do our people represent over 60 different nationalities, but they also represent a wide range of backgrounds, ethnicities and ages.