Design Manager – Civil Rail – Central London

A Major Civil Rail contractor who have over a £1.8bn turnover are seeking a Design Manager to join their Central London Business Unit  in their offices based out of London Waterloo on a £250m Civil Rail project with two years remaining. This contractor are industry leading winning tenders all over the country across all major civil disciplines.

The ideal candidate will:

• Experience with a main civil engineering contractor specialising in civil rail and OLE is highly advantageous
• Minimum 3-5 years working in a Design related role
• Or atleast a year’s experience as a Design manager on UK civil engineering projects
• Possess a qualification in Civil Engineering or a related industry/field

Responsibilities

•  Be involved with off-site inspection, quality control procedures for both off-site manufacture and on site installation. Ensure the production of inspection and test plans cover all appropriate performance specification parameters.
• Able to clearly identify extent of sub-contractors design scope on a package by package basis and work with the procurement team to ensure the correct elements of completing the design are bought within each package.
• Assess the competency/capability of the sub-contractors design facility and feed into the sub-contractor selection process.
• Review and understand the construction programme and then develop / review subcontractor design delivery programmes to ensure design information is presented in a timely fashion to suit fabrication / works on site.
• Chair design progress meetings as appropriate to track and manage the quality and delivery of subcontractor design information.
• Interface with the appropriate CAD and data management platforms as appropriate.
• Receive incoming design information from the main designer and review for completeness. Subsequently distribute to appropriate sub-contractors for review and inclusion within their design process.
• Liaise with the design team in various appropriate forums to ensure the incoming base design information suits the project budget and intended construction methodology.
• Ensure incoming sub-contractor design information is delivered in a timely fashion and is of the required quality.
• Critically review the sub-contractor designs to ensure it meets the performance criteria set by the base information, completes the design as set out within the sub-contractors design package and suits the intended construction methodology.
• A keen eye for designing to budget and meeting the quality demands of this project is essential.
• Ensure interfacing designs delivered as part of separate packages are well coordinated and cover the full scope of contractor design works.
• Manage the subcontractor materials acceptance process for all appropriate packages.
• Distribute sub-contractor designs to the main designer for final review and acceptance, ensuring the review is completed within required timescales and through the most efficient means.
• Assist the delivery team in striving to achieve the highest quality of product possible by reviewing the completion of subcontractor works with a critical, independent eye.

Please note you must have worked in a Design Role for a Main or Subcontractor on a Civil Engineering project in the UK due to requirements of the company.