Hybrid Design Manager

at Costain Group PLC

• Job title: Design Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Camberley, United Kingdom

About the role

• Design Manager responsible for delivering engineering solutions in water and wastewater projects. Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams at Costain to manage design quality and strategies.

Responsibilities

• Delivering engineering solutions at a project / framework level from initial definition of need through optioneering, solution development, detail design and construction support.
• To lead a team of discipline design engineers in the development of wastewater technical solutions from initial need statement through optioneering, solution development, value engineering, detail design and construction support.
• Ensure affordable design solutions are developed within project budget and solution risk is appropriately managed and communicated throughout the solution development process.
• Establish collaborative working relationships with the client, design teams, construction staff and supply chain representatives to promote buildability and supply chain efficiency in design outputs.
• Ensure sustainable design solutions completed in accordance with CDM Regulations
• Provide design solutions that meet all the requirements of the programme’s systems and governance procedures
• Agree design budgets, monitor performance against the budget and provide forecast costs to completion for individual projects
• Record, monitor and control design changes in order to maximise cost efficiency
• Establish and agree design costs and programme timescales with the Project Manager and Principal Design Manager, providing report metrics regularly including narrative.
• Organise the work required and document the Design Management Plan / Project Execution Plan
• Deliver the design stage outputs of each project within the agreed timescale and budget

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree / Engineering or management apprenticeship with industry experience
• Chartered member of professional institute (MICE/IMechE/MCIOB etc) (Desirable)
• Related Project Management or Risk Management training (Desirable)

Benefits

• A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.
• Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase.
• We do share individual feedback following an interview.