Design Manager


Company 

Fawkes & Reece South

Location 

Bristol

Employment Hours 

Full Time

Employment Type 

Permanent

Salary 

£50,000 - £70,000 Per Annum

Job Requirements/Description

Design Manager - Tier 1 Contractor - Civils & Rail - Bristol or Swindon

My client is a Tier 1 Contractor.

They are presently working on a major Civils & Rail Framework covering the Southwest of England.

The Lot stretches from London Paddington to Penzance and involves the ongoing maintenance & renewals programme of civil engineering assets such as embankments, cuttings, scour protection, and earthworks drainage.

As part of the year 2 plan, they are currently looking to recruit a Design Manager to join the team operating out of the Bristol/Swindon Offices and be responsible the permanent works design subcontract packages to achieve delivery of cost-effective and compliant Contractor's design within agreed timescales and fee budgets



Duties

  • Facilitate review of design deliverables to ensure required compliance is achieved.
  • Provide support to Contractors Engineering Manager, CEM, during design process
  • Complete period dashboard, good understanding and use of excel, formulae , graphs etc and ideally power-bi or willingness to learn.
  • Ensure all project trackers are completed, up to date and deliverables tracked as needed. Design coordinator is expected to support Design Manager
  • Oversee fulfilment of Principal Designer, Common Safety Method, and Engineering Safety Management functions to the extent that the company has relevant duties to discharge on the particular project
  • Lead administration of design sub-contract;
  • Lead administration of main contract with regard to Contractor's design (raise Early Warnings, Compensation Event notifications etc.)
  • Monitor cost and schedule performance of sub-contracted designers using EPPR proforma from Design Manager's Toolkit (or project-specific EVM based pro-forma).
  • Review subcontracted designers' applications for payment and authorize as appropriate
  • With support of company and Design Consultant's BIM specialists participate in development of project BIM strategy oversee implementation of BIM Execution Plan


Person Specification

  • HND/Degree in an engineering discipline
  • CSCS
  • Understand the requirements of ISO 9001 with respect to design
  • Understanding of NR/L2/INI/02009, NR/L2/CIV/003, NR/L2/CIV/003, NR/L2/P3M/201 and ability to manage works to these requirements
  • Preferred Civil engineering background, experience of Earthworks and heavy civils
  • Preferred experience of framework environment, and experience of multiple projects over multiple geographic locations

Company 

Fawkes & Reece South

Location 

Bristol

Employment Hours 

Full Time

Employment Type 

Permanent

Salary 

£50,000 - £70,000 Per Annum

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