Job Title: Design Manager

Reporting to:

Role purpose

The Design Manager is a key member of the Design Management team.

• You will assist the Head of Design Management and the relevant design Business Unit General Manager, to ensure design compliance, quality, and successful delivery of a portfolio of design projects.
• Promote Omexom within the industry to assist with developing the business and employees and attract likeminded people that share our values to join our expanding team.
• The DM possesses a high level of skill and understanding of the design delivery process and is able to perform all parts of the task satisfactorily and make judgements and decisions correctly in a variety of situations.
• Set the highest standard for stakeholder management across the project team and ensure that the Design teams uphold it.
• Be commercially and financially aware to ensure that all scope change is managed efficiently across the project.
• Encourage engineering innovation and value engineering during the design and construction process to reduce site-based construction activity with a particular emphasis on sustainability.
• Supporting the technical design team in preparation and review of the Processes and Procedures used to manage the design and ensuring that these are followed by the design teams during the scheme development.
• Assess the impact of any one project design requirement on other concurrent projects and support allocation of resources as necessary to achieve optimum performance and negotiate the release of these resources.
• You will understand NEC and other relevant contract types.
• The DM will manage the design programme, design scope deliverables and report progress and delays accurately.
• The DM is the custodian of change, through a change register, and will manage design any site changes, early warning notifications (EWN), notification of compensation event (nCE), and will monitor what Project Management Instructions (PMI) are required or instigated, ensuring the correct notifications, and provisions according to the contract are made.
• You will work with commercial managers, quantity surveyors, project managers and internal designers to manage the design and communications between the delivery team and Omexom Design Business Units.
• Technical Queries (TQ’s) and Requests For Information (RFI’s) will be managed by the DM and you will keep a register of these queries.
• You will be a liaison with the Principal Designer, to ensure relevant communications take place around permanent and temporary works.
• In this role it will be vital for the DM to promote a proactive team culture sharing lessons learned and best practice.

Responsibilities & Duties

Including but not limited to the following:

• Lead and ensure the management of the overall design programme, design scope deliverables and report progress and delays accurately for each scheme.
• Produce design programme in collaboration with the design teams and OEMs, meeting Client design deliverables.
• Overall coordination of tenders estimates and technical responses.
• Ensure delivery of their discipline’s scope of work for each project on time and on budget, in compliance with customer requirements, quality standards and safety by design principles, following the principles of prevention requirements of the 2015 CDM Regs.
• Work with the design team to drive ‘smarter working’ practice.
• Promote safety, health and environmental awareness of all design staff (principals of prevention).
• Managing and create a culture of innovation and collaboration among the design team.
• Scope and Technical change management across the projects
• Monthly project reporting
• Seeking opportunities to deliver safer, better, faster and more profitably.
• Ensuring the production and maintaining key project documents
• Ensuring compliance with Omexom governance processes and customer requirements.
• Review of method statements / risk assessments ensuring compliance with design documents.
• On Energy Transmission projects, ensure that the design team works to the relevant Client specifications, supplier requirements and approval acceptance procedures.

Key interfaces

Relationships with key stakeholders:

• BUGM
• Design Delivery Managers / Heads of Design
• Project Directors / Project Managers
• Designers and Technicians
• Site Manager
• Estimating and Planning Engineers
• Key Consultants, Subcontractors and Suppliers
• Client representatives

Person Specification

Qualifications and experience

The jobholder shall possess:

Essential:

• 8+ years of experience in a related role and relevant degree and qualifications (Construction Management, Engineering, Project Management or similar)
• Proven ability to deliver Design projects.
• A high level of attention to detail.
• A strong belief in developing people and building a team.
• Design delivery and management of design experience.
• Supporting teams to deliver programs safely, on time, on budget and to a high quality.
• Interfacing with internal and external stakeholders
• Good technical grounding, experience and engineering delivery
• Project leadership at a management level, delivering a range of projects from Standard to Complex projects
• Experience in managing multi-disciplinary teams
• Experience in managing multi-cultural teams
• Degree qualified in a relevant Engineering discipline or Project management / Construction management or similar.

Desired:

• Experience working to energy transmission and distribution specifications, processes and procedures.
• Experience of working in the UK Energy sector or within highly regulated industries
• Membership of a relevant professional institution

Competencies

Required skills, knowledge, and abilities:

• Good knowledge and experience of SSEN and National Grids design management and approvals process.
• Good management and organization skills.
• Knowledge and experience of information management requirements including ISO19650 (BIM)
• Knowledge and experience of 2015 C(DM) regulations including principal Designer requirements. Knowledge of Principal Designer Representative role for National Grid
• Ensure key roles for National Grid projects are appointed, Lead Contractor Design Assurance Engineer, LCDAE & CDAE.
• Experience with Assuring NG designs and Type Approval processes.
• Ability to meet targets in a commercial environment. Able to work to deadlines and can demonstrate previous experience of working under pressure.
• High level of proficiency of Microsoft office software
• Ability to put the customer at the center of decision making.
• Commitment to the highest safety and quality related standards

Values

In line with Omexom’s values, the jobholder must have the following qualities:

Team Spirit & Generosity – able to work effectively within and contribute to the Omexom team to deliver results, provide support and drive performance.

Trust and Empowerment – enjoy managing their responsibilities and time to ensure work is completed efficiently and professionally.

Integrity and Responsibility – enjoy taking responsibility for their duties and managing these effectively to ensure efficient high quality results.

Innovation & Entrepreneurship – continually strive to improve processes and introduce new initiatives to improve efficiency.