Design Manager

Kier Group


Date: 21 hours ago
City: Brighton
Contract type: Full time
We're looking for a clean water Design Manager to join our Natural Resources team to lead and manage engineering design delivery for assigned clean water projects on our new 7-year, c£1bn framework with Southern Water. Interested more in wastewater? Then still apply as we're hiring for that too.

Location: agile working from home with visits to the Falmer office, East Sussex on a weekly/bi-weekly or even monthly basis depending on your location (+ car allowance benefit)

Contract: Permanent, Fulltime

Responsibilities

As a Design Manager, you'll provide expert engineering support to the design and construction of the Southern Water portfolio of non-infrastructure, clean water projects. Services covering the counties of Kent, Sussex and Hampshire, including the Isle of Wight. Currently we're in the pre-con stage but the framework offers longevity as well with a 7-year framework.

Your Day To Day Will Include

  • Spearheading and optimising the engineering assurance process for designs prepared by partner at outline design and Capital Delivery partners at tender and construction design
  • Ensuring that the Engineering Design team, design consultants and construction partners are developing technically and economically proficient engineering solutions
  • Implementing design quality procedures upholding right-first-time philosophy adherence
  • Seeking opportunities in enhancing affordability and value throughout the design process
  • Maintaining compliance with Construction Design & Management (CDM) Regulations, managing design-related health and safety risks


What are we looking for?

This role of Design Manager is great if you have:

  • Degree level qualification (or equivalent) in an engineering discipline
  • Experience of managing and driving a multi-discipline technical engineering team
  • Proven track record of driving sustainable performance against challenging business targets
  • Full driving licence in order to visit various offices / sites


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.

If you would like to explore more about the incredible growth and scale of our water business, dive into our diverse project portfolios, and uncover both current and future career opportunities. You can see more information about our water business here.

There's never been a better time to get involved, register your interest today and take the first step toward a rewarding career with us!

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.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier

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