Regional Design Manager

Anderselite are working with a tier 1 contractor who are seeking to employ a Regional Design Manager to work within their Water/Utilities division.

The Role
Oversee design delivery for the region to support our water sector design work, the role is primarily to drive efficient design solutions and ensure governance in the design process for the region.

This will be achieved through functional management of design co-ordinators and pre-construction managers across our regional portfolio to ensure internal and external design delivery is meeting our business objective.

The individual shall be responsible for ensuring that we deliver in line with our design governance and achieve technical compliance and quality in appropriate design solutions on time and within budget.

Designs delivery overseen shall include Support the project delivery teams by providing concept, basic and detailed design solutions based on client and site-specific requirements for clean water, wastewater and biosolids treatment solutions, pipelines, trunk mains, sewers pumping stations and networks.

Key Responsibilities
-Responsible for ensuring design process and procedure are followed throughout the design process for the regional design delivery.
-Oversee technical appropriateness of the project solutions delivered throughout the project life cycle.

-Oversee design work to ensure it is correct and complies with the customer and statutory standards, regulations, and specifications.

-Establish effective working relationships with internal design teams and external design consultants for the region.
-Ensure that all engineering outputs provided are following Health and Safety Legislation, documented Business Processes, Quality Management Systems & best practices e.g., checked and verified: calculations, drawings, specifications, and compliance with appropriate standards.
-Support supply chain selection for specialists’ input on the design.
-Collaboration with other technical, operational, maintenance, and strategic stakeholders, and design coordinators.
-Liaison with Engineering Managers, Project Managers and consultants concerning project issues, scope changes, risks etc.-
Temporary Works: Understanding of what encompasses Temporary Works and the supporting engineering, understanding of the types of temporary works designs available and what responsibilities the associated roles (designer/coordinator/contractor) have and engagement of internal and external temporary works designers.