Design Manager

Overview

Oversee design management and engineering assurance for rail/aviation projects.

Key Responsibilities

• design development
• value engineering
• design review
• tq management
• document control
• survey scheduling

Tasks

-Leading on design development and optioneering, providing a strong focus on buildability between construction and design teams selecting the most efficient and effective solutions, engaging with specialist suppliers both at tender and contract stage, contributing to and recording design decisions including decisions made to embed safe by design, buildability, value engineering, whole life cost and sustainability, recording best practice and lessons learned, providing input to and managing output from the change control process relating to the design and design supply chain, including leading value engineering on projects -Chairing and recording actions from design review meetings and design integration meetings, resolving interface issues between design and construction teams and closing out discipline specific technical interfaces, attending and providing discipline specific engineering input into interdisciplinary check meetings (IDC), resolving detailing issues requiring input from other parties (e.g. Client, contractors, sub‐ contractors and fabricators) -Maintaining register of TQs / RFIs and chasing close out of TQs / RFIs between BGCL, client and BGCL supply chain (designers and contactors), managing design change through the TQ process and seeking client approval, where required, communicating change to all parties -You are working in a Design or Construction engineering environment, are able to effectively manage and communicate information through electronic document control systems, can influence design development and manage the compliance during site delivery -Managing design consultant appointments and input into supply chain contracts, ensuring appointed design consultants are carrying out their duties in line with their appointment, interrogating returns confirming compliance with standards and brief, producing design programmes, design scopes, design responsibility matrices, appointments and schedules -Identifying project inputs early by developing and maintaining survey and investigation schedules and associated deliverables, informing design development of permanent and temporary works, producing and maintaining an engineering deliverables schedule ensuring the timely production and approval of engineering deliverables

Requirements

• driving licence
• civil engineering

What You Bring

-Driving licence is needed to attend various meeting on sites and in offices -A degree in Civil Engineering or a similar discipline

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About Kier Group

-Kier undertakes a wide range of projects—from hospitals and schools to roads, rail links, and prisons. -Their 360° model spans develop, design‑build, maintain and operate services across sectors like aviation, water, energy and nuclear. -They’ve delivered landmark schemes such as the Luton DART airport‑rail link and the UK’s first all‑electric prison. -Property division focuses on urban regeneration, mixed‑use residential and commercial developments. -Headquartered in Manchester (Salford Quays) with enduring influence across the UK infrastructure landscape.

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