Design Manager – Civil Rail – Central London
Salary: £50-£80k+pkg (dependent on experience)
Location: London Waterloo
Regions: London, South East
A Major Civil Rail contractor who have over a £1.8bn turnover are seeking a Design Manager to join their Central London Business Unit in their offices based out of London Waterloo a £250m Civil Rail project with two years remaining. This contractor are industry leading winning tenders all over the country across all major civil disciplines.
Qualifications
- Experience with a main civil engineering contractor specialising in civil rail and OLE is highly advantageous
- Minimum 3-5 years working in a Design related role
- Or atleast a year’s experience as a Design manager on UK civil engineering projects
- Possess a qualification in Civil Engineering or a related industry/field
Responsibilities
- Be involved with off-site inspection, quality control procedures for both off-site manufacture and on site installation. Ensure the production of inspection and test plans cover all appropriate performance specification parameters.
- Able to clearly identify extent of sub-contractors design scope on a package by package basis and work with the procurement team to ensure the correct elements of completing the design are bought within each package.
- Assess the competency/capability of the sub-contractors design facility and feed into the sub-contractor selection process.
- Review and understand the construction programme and then develop / review subcontractor design delivery programmes to ensure design information is presented in a timely fashion to suit fabrication / works on site.
- Chair design progress meetings as appropriate to track and manage the quality and delivery of subcontractor design information.
- Interface with the appropriate CAD and data management platforms as appropriate.
- Receive incoming design information from the main designer and review for completeness. Subsequently distribute to appropriate sub-contractors for review and inclusion within their design process.
- Liaise with the design team in various appropriate forums to ensure the incoming base design information suits the project budget and intended construction methodology.
- Ensure incoming sub-contractor design information is delivered in a timely fashion and is of the required quality.
- Critically review the sub-contractor designs to ensure it meets the performance criteria set by the base information, completes the design as set out within the sub-contractors design package and suits the intended construction methodology.
- A keen eye for designing to budget and meeting the quality demands of this project is essential.
- Ensure interfacing designs delivered as part of separate packages are well coordinated and cover the full scope of contractor design works.
- Manage the subcontractor materials acceptance process for all appropriate packages.
- Distribute sub-contractor designs to the main designer for final review and acceptance, ensuring the review is completed within required timescales and through the most efficient means.
- Assist the delivery team in striving to achieve the highest quality of product possible by reviewing the completion of subcontractor works with a critical, independent eye.
Please note you must have worked in a Design Role for a Main or Subcontractor on a Civil Engineering project in the UK due to requirements of the company.
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