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Design Manager - C&G - MoD / Defence Building projects

ENGINEERINGUK

Nottingham

On-site

GBP 45,000 - 75,000

Full time

28 days ago

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Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a passionate Design Manager to lead innovative projects within the defence sector. This role involves overseeing design management processes, ensuring compliance with contractual obligations, and maximizing consultant relationships to deliver effective design solutions. With a focus on continuous improvement and technical excellence, the successful candidate will join a collaborative team dedicated to delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure projects. If you have a strong background in civil engineering and design management, this opportunity offers a chance to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

  • Approx 5 years' experience in managing design from concept to handover.
  • Experience with different procurement routes and sectors.

Responsibilities

  • Maximise consultant effectiveness and value optimisation.
  • Ensure design compliance and manage design information.

Skills

Design Management
Project Management
Civil Engineering
Consultancy Management
BIM/Digital Engineering

Education

First degree in Civil Engineering
Other construction-related qualification

Tools

BIM
Digital Engineering

Job description

Design Manager - C&G - MoD / Defence Building projects

Sector: Construction and Building Services, Creative and Design, Project and Program Management

Role: Manager

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time

Are you passionate about exemplary Design Management?

Do you have end to end contractor-side Design Management experience?

Are you considering what's next for your career?

Then we would love to hear from you!

The Opportunity:

Laing O'Rourke has an opportunity for a Civils & Geo Design Manager to join the team on our portfolio of projects with the Ministry of Defence based from our Northern office in Sale, Manchester with travel to Explore Manufacturing in Worksop Nottinghamshire and eventually will be onsite in Lincoln. A Laing O'Rourke Design Manager ensures that all design information is reviewed and delivered in line with the design management procedures for completeness and compliance with contractual obligations, including factors such as programme, buildability, safety, maintenance and technical suitability. In addition, the Design Manager oversees the production, control and distribution of design information at different project stages and ensures regular progress reporting of the design is in place.

The Laing O'Rourke Design Manager is a senior member of the Design Job Family and Technical Function, which is there to ensure technical excellence, assurance and performance across all projects and opportunities from pre-project, early engagement and work winning through to detailed delivery.

What will the role look like?

  • Supporting our consultant teams to maximise their effectiveness and value optimisation in the provision of effective integrated design solutions that meet our clients' business needs (strategies and budgets).
  • Maximising the effectiveness of consultant relationships.
  • Reviewing design delivery to enhance quality of solutions and efficiency of design, procurement, manufacturing, assembly, commissioning and handover of total engineering excellent solutions for our clients.
  • Supporting our consultants in adopting LOR's design processes, deliver with rigour and quality project management processes and to ensure effective collaboration throughout the supply chain (using appropriate tools for this including, but not limited to, BIM/Digital Engineering).
  • Capturing business knowledge and capability enabling continuous improvement, innovation and improved capability towards an Engineering Enterprise.

Technical Capabilities:

  • Creating and owning the design brief
  • Design optimisation
  • Design for Manufacture and Assembly
  • Managing consultancies
  • Information and Change Control
  • Design compliance

What skills & experience are we looking for?

  • Precast / structural / civil experience or bias would be useful.
  • First degree in Civil / Geotechnical Engineering. Other appropriate construction related qualification plus design related experience.
  • Approx 5 years' experience. Different procurement routes, different sector experience. Experience end to end in managing design - from concept to handover.

Don't match all the criteria? We are open and always happy to hear from people with transferable skill sets and a commitment to learning.

About us:

We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality - this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the 'Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com.

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