We're looking for a Design Manager to join our Natural Resources team, working on our Thames Water Mogden treatment work site for AMP7/8. In this role you'll oversee the design phase of construction projects on wastewater treatment upgrades and resilience works.

 

Location:  Working on site at Mogden, Twickenham
Contract: Permanent, Full Time – flexible and part time hours may be available if desired, just let us know

 

Responsibilities

We're looking for a Design Manager to join our NRNN business unit. You'll be responsible for ensuring technically compliant, cost-effective, carbon- and water-considerate solutions are developed during the concept and detailed design phases, as well as the technical assurance of as-built designs and variations to the contract. Ensuring the schemes meet the Client's AMP objectives and regulatory commitments with respect to both performance and programme you'll additionally aim to deliver optimum cost benefits for the Client and, where possible, exceed regulatory allowances.

Your day to day will include:

Performance-manage the design team in terms of time, cost, quality, and health and safety, including agreeing on and monitoring targets and providing feedback. Contributing to and managing the project programmes for design, emphasizing the importance of task planning and short interval control within the context of the wider project planning. Working with Kier Project Engineers to carry out technical design reviews and manage the outputs of these reviews through the design review register in coordination with the allocated design partner. Checking and accepting designs, instigating project reviews as necessary. Seeking to optimize the design process by leveraging previous designs and standard designs, incorporating lessons learned within Kier and, if applicable, partner organizations.

What are we looking for?

This Design Manager is great for you if you have:

Lengthy proven industry experience and a BEng/MEng qualified engineer. Proven people and project management skills with prior experience as a Design Manager/Principle Engineer within the Water Industry, or a similar process industry such as Oil & Gas, Petro Chem, Food and Beverage, Pharmaceuticals. Experience of the interaction between technical disciplines; Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Control and Automation. Good understanding of P&ID's.

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

 

Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

 

Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

 

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