Senior Design Manager

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About The Role

We are looking to strengthen our Design Management team with a Senior Design Manager role based in Northern Ireland, with hybrid working available, expectation of 50/50 split.

You will report directly to the Regional Engineering Lead (Operational) and Technical Discipline Lead for Design Management (Functional) and your role will cover Design Management of projects awarded by NIW under our recently awarded framework with them.

Key responsibilities will include:

• To provide commitment to excellence in Health & Safety (H&S) in design, complying fully with relevant local specifications, codes, rules, regulations and requirements and all relevant H&S legislation.
• To ensure that H&S hazards are identified and managed and that residual risks are communicated effectively.
• To lead the Design team in delivery of their responsibilities and to ensure a focused approach to meet customer requirements and project objectives.
• To be accountable for the expenditure, efficiency challenge and overall outturn costs for the design element of project delivery, producing deliverables within the allocated resource hours and by key dates.
• To organise all elements of Design, documenting it in the Project Management Plan and preparing monthly status update reports as necessary.
• To attend and contribute to all relevant programme, project and technical meetings.
• To ensure that the technical solution is produced to outperform on costs, whilst maintaining quality standards and delivery on time.
• To provide where required, technical support during Assembly and Commissioning stages.
• To ensure that all technical work is undertaken to the correct Standards and Specifications, following the appropriate Systems of Work and Quality Assurance procedures.
• To contribute to achieving the sustainability targets, particularly by reducing the embodied and operational Carbon Footprints of the solutions.
• To communicate and work effectively with people from other partner organisations, backgrounds and disciplines, utilising their knowledge and experience and add to this with your own experience and knowhow.
• To recognise and provide exceptional customer service both internally and with partners and externally with the Client, their Customers and the general public.
• Represent the whole of the MWH business in all client contacts and promote the MWH reputation.
• Maintain a positive and solution-oriented approach to work, providing open and honest feedback.
• Undertake such other duties, training and/or hours of work as may be reasonably required and which are consistent with the general level of responsibility of this role.
• In all internal and external contact, present a professional and positive image of MWH Treatment as well as maintaining mutually constructive, positive and beneficial relationships.
• Take all reasonable steps to ensure appropriate confidentiality.

About You

Essential

• Extensive experience of multi-disciplinary design management, in a design-build environment
• Degree in an engineering-related discipline
• Chartered Engineer in an engineering-related discipline
• Must be delivery-driven with the ability to set targets and manage and motivate multi-disciplinary teams to deliver to time, cost and quality objectives
• Working knowledge of CDM and construction Health & Safety
• Extensive experience in large- scale project delivery
• Strategic, operational, technical and management skills
• Good general knowledge of all aspects of water treatment e.g. civil engineering, process engineering, electrical engineering and project management
• Ability to present technical proposals clearly, confidently, and convincingly
• The ability to travel within region is expected as the role requires.

About Us

MWH Treatment is an integrated design and build provider working in the water sector. With over 1,000 staff working across eight regional centres, supporting six long-term water sector frameworks and two recently won frameworks, operating both as a sole contractor but also in joint ventures and alliances.

At MWH Treatment we believe that people matter. We know to build successful, creative teams we need adiverse workforce that can deliver innovative ways of thinking. We provide an environment where you will have the freedom to develop and grow to your full potential, creating opportunity by inviting, embracing, and celebrating difference, our goal as an employer is to motivate, and develop our employees. By fostering a diverse range of talents and perspectives we ensure we have the breadth of viewpoints, experiences, and skills needed to succeed. Embracing diversity of all kinds enables us to provide a work environment and culture that plays a key role in attracting and retaining the right people with the right skills.

As signatories to the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant, we have made a promise to support our forces, working with the CTP to help ex veterans find work in the civilian world. We also support Mates in Mind, a charitable programme to improve and promote positive mental health in the workplace. We don't just tick boxes; we live these values every day.

What MWH offer

Packages include -

• A competitive salary
• Hybrid Working 50/50 split
• Car/car allowance (Jobs needs dependent)
• 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays (with an additional 5 days available to buy)
• Contribution Pension scheme
• Life Assurance
• Health Insurance
• Private Medical Insurance
• And many more benefits including - cycle to work scheme, discounts and savings Hub, Kids Pass etc