Overview
Design Manager – West Midlands
Job Description
Costain is working closely with Severn Trent Water on their Capital Delivery Framework, as part of it’s capital programme for AMP8. As part of the Design and Build Framework lot, Costain brings together its design, construction, and consultancy expertise to undertake renewal and refurbishment projects and will assist Severn Trent in its target to make continuous improvements to its safety performance, whilst ensuring continuity of supply and consequently lowering costs for its customers.
Responsibilities
- Identify design scope and deliverables
- Review and challenge of the design programme
- Management of design deliverables
- Management of design change
- Challenge design solution to ensure DfMA and low carbon solution which meet the Clients affordability challenges
- Hold and record regular design meetings relating to at least briefing, progress and coordination
- Hold and record buildability, carbon and DfMa workshops
- Coordination and management of design reviews, technical assurance reviews and CDM reviews
- Implementation and management of the project BIM strategy
- Support the framework nominated principal designer
- Be conversant with current legislation, especially that which applies to health and safety, which is relevant to tasks being carried out.
- Promote the business in a professional manner to both external and internal persons or organisations
- Maintain professional working relationships with the Design Team, Delivery Team, Commercial Team, and Employer Team and communicate well with them
- Liaise closely with other members of the Project Team to support procurement decision making for each package of work, which will include the Costain Project Manager, Commercial Manager, the Lead Design Consultant, MIECA lead and any respective supply chain partners
Qualifications
- HNC/HND or degree in a relevant engineering discipline
- Progressing towards a Chartered professional review with relevant chartered body
- Driving licence
- Good communication and collaboration skills
- Good technical understanding of water and wastewater processes and asset types
- Commercial and contractual appreciation to support the required commercial outcomes.
- Good understanding of programme preparation and management
- Experience and knowledge of CDM (2015) Regulations
- Experience of delivering multi-disciplinary design/construction projects
About Us
Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
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