Design Manager - Civils & Earthworks

PSR Rail are looking for an experienced Design Manager to work for a tier 1 contractor on a busy project in Bristol. You must have experience in Heavy Civils and Earthworks to work on a Network Rail contract off track.

This will be a freelance position paying between £450 and £500 depending on experience.

Responsibilities

Responsible for initiating and leading tasks and processes, taking responsibility and being accountable, where relevant, for the work and roles of others whilst exercising broad autonomy and judgement within broad parameters in their area of responsibility. Specialist learning and involves detailed analysis of a high level of information and knowledge in an area of work or study.

Summary of Role

Reporting to Contractor's Engineering Manager (CEM), responsible for leading and overseeing Contractor's permanent works design resources and activities.

Manage permanent works design subcontract packages to achieve delivery of cost-effective and compliant Contractor's design within agreed timescales and fee budgets.

Implement design management procedures so as to comply with ISO 9001 design requirements and Client requirements for management of contractor's design specified in the Contract.

Leads project's implementation of Value Engineering, Design for Health and Safety, and BIM.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

1. Compliance with Design Management Procedures
2. Understand the requirements of ISO 9001 with respect to design.
3. Be familiar with tools and procedures and their application to achieve ISO 9001 compliance.
4. Draft project-specific Design Management Plan and revise periodically.
5. Control and track design change using Design Manager's Toolkit.
6. Implement Company and/or client's design assurance procedures.
7. 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.
8. Preferred Civil engineering background, experience of Earthworks and heavy civils.
9. Preferred experience of framework environment, and experience of multiple projects over multiple geographic locations.

Behavioural Leadership

Apply the principles of Design Management Best Practice Guide to foster a collaborative relationship between design and production teams.

Technical Oversight

Be familiar with the technical requirements of the project.

1. Facilitate technical coordination between disciplines.
2. Facilitate review of design deliverables to ensure required compliance is achieved.
3. Devise tools to track and report on Compliance with Client's requirements as defined in the main contract documentation.
4. Application of relevant Network Rail, British Standards and sector or Client-specific standards.
5. Production team requirements for buildability (cost, programme, safety, repeatability, design for offsite manufacture).
6. Completeness of information, level of detail.
7. Technical assurance: evidence of checking, review of deliverables, provision of Design Checks to required category of independence.
8. General support to Contractors Engineering Manager, CEM, during design process.
9. Understanding of Rail environment and general constraints on design, e.g., access, proximity to railway and clearances, Overhead line and signalling constraints.
10. Lead HAZID and CSM compliance for project.
11. Ability to chair IDC/R (Interdisciplinary Check / Review meetings) on behalf of the CEM if/when required.
12. Manage design coordinator and ensure day-to-day tasks are delegated to them and check on completion of tasks and report back to CEM.
13. Complete period dashboard, good understanding and use of excel, formulae, graphs etc., and ideally power-bi or willingness to learn.
14. Ensure all project trackers are completed, up to date and deliverables tracked as needed. Design coordinator is expected to support Design Manager.

Legislative Compliance

Ensure compliance with CDM regulations as they apply to design.

Oversee fulfilment of Principal Designer, Common Safety Method, and Engineering Safety Management functions to the extent that the client has relevant duties to discharge on the particular project.

Design for Health and Safety

Challenge Work-in-Progress design and facilitate development of design that eliminates or mitigates construction health and safety risk: engage production team (Company and supply chain) in design reviews to this end.

Ensure lead designer maintains Design Decision Register.

Assist the business/project in achieving the objectives/targets set in the Carbon Strategy within your specific work activities.

BIM

With support of company and Design Consultant's BIM specialists, participate in development of project BIM strategy and oversee implementation of BIM Execution Plan.

Understand what BIM is, understand the implications and value proposition of BIM within your organisation.

Understanding and ability to work within ProjectWise or equivalent CDE to manage design works.