Senior Design Manager - Electrical - Power (5443)
Are you passionate about exemplary Design Management?
Do you have end to end contractor-side Design Management experience?
Are you considering what's next for your career?
Then we would love to hear from you!!
The Opportunity:
Laing O'Rourke has an opportunity for a Senior Design Manager from an Electrical background to join the Laing O'Rourke team on the Great Grid Upgrade Programme based in our Birmingham office.
Role Overview:
A Laing O'Rourke Senior Design Manager leads the delivery of effective design across multiple projects or a single large-scale project. They provide a focus for and lead the pre-construction phase design processes, liaising with the client, the design team, in-house bid team, and the operations team. On live projects, they implement and lead the processes that enable the design to be challenged and interrogated within a collaborative team framework to reduce risks.
What will the role look like?
1. Providing a focus for and leading the pre-construction phase briefing and design processes.
2. Leading LOR's design management procedures, providing a functional link between the commercial and construction teams and the designers throughout the project life.
3. Implementing processes that enable the design to be challenged and interrogated within a collaborative team framework.
4. Implementing agreed processes for the production, control, and distribution of design information at different project stages.
5. Ensuring regular progress reporting of the design.
6. Ensuring design information is thoroughly reviewed for buildability, safety and maintainability, completeness & compliance, and technical suitability before use.
7. Assisting the Design Leader in promoting innovation in design management, methodology, processes, and practices.
8. Assisting the Design Leader in promoting the application and adoption of the Company's vision and values in all design management activities.
Technical Capabilities:
1. Creating and owning the design brief.
2. Design optimisation.
3. Design for Manufacture and Assembly.
4. Managing consultancies.
5. Information and Change Control.
6. Design compliance.
What skills & experience are we looking for?
1. First degree in Electrical Engineering or other appropriate construction-related qualification plus design-related experience.
2. Approximately 10 years' experience, with sector specialism and deep and broad experience managing design for construction or building services projects. Likely to have international experience.
About us:
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and building projects for clients in the UK, Middle East, and Australia. Certainty, reliability, and quality are what our clients want, and at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it.
Accessibility:
As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long-term health conditions and disabilities through the 'Offer an interview scheme'. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.
Contact Us:
If you need the application form in an alternative format or would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com. #J-18808-Ljbffr