Design Manager

Design Manager - Tier 1 Contractor - Civils & Rail - Bristol or Swindon

My client is a Tier 1 Contractor.

They are presently working on a major Civils & Rail Framework covering the Southwest of England.

The Lot stretches from London Paddington to Penzance and involves the ongoing maintenance & renewals programme of civil engineering assets such as embankments, cuttings, scour protection, and earthworks drainage.

As part of the year 2 plan, they are currently looking to recruit a Design Manager to join the team operating out of the Bristol/Swindon Offices and be responsible the permanent works design subcontract packages to achieve delivery of cost-effective and compliant Contractor's design within agreed timescales and fee budgets

Duties

• Facilitate review of design deliverables to ensure required compliance is achieved.
• Provide support to Contractors Engineering Manager, CEM, during design process
• Complete period dashboard, good understanding and use of excel, formulae , graphs etc and ideally power-bi or willingness to learn.
• Ensure all project trackers are completed, up to date and deliverables tracked as needed. Design coordinator is expected to support Design Manager
• Oversee fulfilment of Principal Designer, Common Safety Method, and Engineering Safety Management functions to the extent that the company has relevant duties to discharge on the particular project
• Lead administration of design sub-contract;
• Lead administration of main contract with regard to Contractor's design (raise Early Warnings, Compensation Event notifications etc.)
• Monitor cost and schedule performance of sub-contracted designers using EPPR proforma from Design Manager's Toolkit (or project-specific EVM based pro-forma).
• Review subcontracted designers' applications for payment and authorize as appropriate
• With support of company and Design Consultant's BIM specialists participate in development of project BIM strategy oversee implementation of BIM Execution Plan

Person Specification

• HND/Degree in an engineering discipline
• CSCS
• Understand the requirements of ISO 9001 with respect to design
• Understanding of NR/L2/INI/02009, NR/L2/CIV/003, NR/L2/CIV/003, NR/L2/P3M/201 and ability to manage works to these requirements
• Preferred Civil engineering background, experience of Earthworks and heavy civils
• Preferred experience of framework environment, and experience of multiple projects over multiple geographic locations