Design Manager – Civils & Geotechnical – Power Sector

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Full time
Location: Dartford
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Job offered by: Laing O'Rourke
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Category:
Location:

Dartford, Great Grid Partnership – Margam & Letchmore Region:

South East England Employment type:

Permanent Job family:

Technical Business unit:

[EUR] Infrastructure

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 Civils & Geotechnical Design Manager to join the team on our Letchmore substation project for the National Grid based from our corporate head office in Dartford. A Laing O'Rourke Design Manager ensures that all design information is reviewed and delivered in line with the design management procedures for completeness and compliance with contractual obligations, including factors such as programme, buildability, safety, maintenance and technical suitability. In addition, the Design Manager oversees the production, control and distribution of design information at different project stages and ensures regular progress reporting of the design is in place. The Laing O'Rourke Design Manager is a senior member of the Design Job Family and Technical Function, which is there to ensure technical excellence, assurance and performance across all projects and opportunities from pre-project, early engagement and work winning through to detailed delivery. All of our designers are part of our Engineering Enterprise which aims to maximise and realise the potential of design to increase certainty on our projects. What will the role look like? Supporting our consultant teams to maximise their effectiveness and value optimisation in the provision of effective integrated design solutions that meet our clients' business needs (strategies and budgets). Maximising the effectiveness of consultant relationships. Reviewing design delivery to enhance quality of solutions and efficiency of design, procurement, manufacturing, assembly, commissioning and handover of total engineering excellent solutions for our clients. Supporting our consultants in adopting LOR's design processes, delivering with rigour and quality project management processes and ensuring effective collaboration throughout the supply chain (using appropriate tools for this including, but not limited to, BIM/Digital Engineering). Capturing business knowledge and capability enabling continuous improvement, innovation and improved capability towards an Engineering Enterprise. Technical Capabilities: Creating and owning the design brief Design optimisation Design for Manufacture and Assembly Managing consultancies Information and Change Control Design compliance What skills & experience are we looking for? Power / National Grid / DNO experience First degree in Civil or Geotechnical Engineering. Other appropriate construction related qualification plus design related experience. Approx 5 years' experience. Different procurement routes, different sector experience. Experience end to end in managing design – from concept to handover. Don't match all the criteria? We are open and always happy to hear from people with transferable skill sets and a commitment to learning. About us: We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia. Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients. 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'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace. We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email

resourcingteam@laingorourke.com

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