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Design Manager
Location: North London
Our ideal candidate will have a minimum of 5 years' experience in the management of design in a civil engineering environment preferably rail. They must be able to demonstrate relevant experience in Design Management within rail design. They will be working with one of our Tier one contractors on the lifts & bridge structures at existing stations.
Responsibilities
Able to clearly identify extent of sub-contractors design scope on a package by package basis and work with the procurement team to ensure the correct elements of completing the design are bought within each package.
Assess the competency/capability of the sub-contractors design facility and feed into the sub-contractor selection process.
Review and understand the construction programme and then develop / review subcontractor design delivery programmes to ensure design information is presented in a timely fashion to suit fabrication / works on site.
Chair design progress meetings as appropriate to track and manage the quality and delivery of subcontractor design information.
Receive incoming design information from the main designer and review for completeness. Subsequently distribute to appropriate sub-contractors for review and inclusion within their design process.
Liaise with the design team in various appropriate forums to ensure the incoming base design information suits the project budget and intended construction methodology.
Ensure incoming sub-contractor design information is delivered in a timely fashion and is of the required quality.
Critically review the sub-contractor designs to ensure it meets the performance criteria set by the base information, completes the design as set out within the sub-contractors design package and suits the intended construction methodology.
Ensure interfacing designs delivered as part of separate packages are well coordinated and cover the full scope of contractor design works.
Distribute sub-contractor designs to the main designer for final review and acceptance, ensuring the review is completed within required timescales and through the most efficient means.
Please note you must have worked in a Design Role for a Main or Subcontractor on a Rail project
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