Design Manager

Overview

Lead design delivery for large infrastructure projects, managing teams, budgets, and client relations.

Key Responsibilities

• team leadership
• safety
• risk management
• project closeout
• delivery programme
• client coordination

Tasks

-Leading the project team – building, motivating, maintaining, coaching, guiding and developing the team, including providing regular feedback to all team members. -Ensure safety is prioritised throughout delivery. -Identifying and agreeing project objectivities with the Design Director and developing a strategy for achieving these. -Identifying, escalating and managing any matters that could pose a potential contractual/commercial risk to AtkinsRéalis to the Project Director (PD) at the earliest opportunity. -Closing out the project on completion, updating market information, ensuring that lessons learnt are captured and disseminated internally and ensuring that a Client Satisfaction survey is initiated. -Assembling and owning the project delivery programme and delivery plans. -Facilitating communication, co-ordination and information flow with the Client and within the project team, including any subcontractors and partners.

Requirements

• chartered engineer
• bim
• nec3
• leadership
• client management
• project delivery

What You Bring

-Excellent interpersonal, organisational and communication skills both verbal and written. -Chartered Engineer/Architect or equivalent with experience managing design commissions on large infrastructure projects. -The successful delivery of the project to agreed targets, e.g. programme, budget and quality. -Experienced at preparing Scope Definition papers, Project Execution Plans, Risk Registers, Change Control Logs and Client & Stakeholder Management plans. -Ability to manage and motivate a team and demonstrate good leadership qualities. -Customer focused with excellent client relationship management skills. -Experience across a range of construction projects. -Experience of managing design projects to time, cost and quality objectives and familiar with programming and earned value techniques. -Familiar with BIM and has an understanding of 3D modelling tools for design and coordination purposes and the associated Information attributes that can be assigned and managed within the Model. -Understands and has experience in deploying various forms of construction contract, particularly NEC3/ NEC4.

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About Atkinsréalis

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Security Clearance

-may require uk security clearance; employment subject to obtaining required clearance. -vetting conducted by united kingdom security vetting (uksv) and may require proof of 5+ years uk residency. -do not mention any current or previous security clearance in application or interview.