Design Manager

Design Manager

Location: London /South West/South East

Our ideal candidate will have a minimum of 5 years' experience in the management of design in a civil engineering environment preferably within aviation. They must be able to demonstrate relevant experience in Design Management within civils background

Responsibilities

• The project is at early stage design for the rebuilt of an MOD base and the ideal candidate would have worked at a pre-construction stage ideally within the aviation sector.
• Management and delivery of design information in accordance with the agreed design programme and deliverable schedule.
• Design input at both preconstruction and construction stage of projects
• The production of design programmes, design scopes, design responsibility matrices, appointments, schedules.
• Experience with ASITE and Navisworks would be preferred.
• Attending/chair necessary meetings and workshops with internal and external stakeholders.
• 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.
• 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.
• Ensure interfacing designs delivered as part of separate packages are well coordinated and cover the full scope of contractor design works.

Please note you must have worked in a Design Role for a Main or Subcontractor on a Aviation /Civils project