Structures Design Team Leader - Exeter, United Kingdom - Amey

Amey

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Exeter, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Your new role

National Highways, formerly Highways England, have named Amey Consulting as a Design partner to support the delivery of the largest and most comprehensive renewals programme that National Highways have ever launched.

The £3.6bn Scheme Delivery Framework (SDF) enables National Highways to procure Design and Construction services across the Strategic Road Network for the next 6 years.

Our Structures Design Team Leaders play an important part within the Highways and Designated Funds Design team and alongside our client, National Highways.

As a Structures Design Team Leader, you will provide support and assistance to your Highways and Designated Funds Manager and take line management responsibility for a team of 5-6 highways designers, whilst overseeing multiple highways schemes.

You may have experience mentoring junior members of your team and looking for progression, or be an experienced line manager; either way, we will support you in broadening your experience whilst working towards a Principal level role.

Work-life balance and flexibility are key for our success. We empower our people to make choices that are right for them, with hybrid, part-time and flexible work patterns. And with a network of offices across the UK, we're open to discussing working options that suit you.

We strongly encourage development towards a professional qualification with a recognised Institution and pride ourselves on mentoring engineers.

We offer tailored support towards professional accreditation (IEng/CEng), and you will be rewarded with a bonus of up to £5k on completion.

You will be responsible for:

Drive effective health and safety practices within your team
Liaise with the Client and our Community partners to ensure solutions that are developed are suitable for buildability and maintainability
Lead on the delivery of scheme design, as well as providing support to the Design Team Leader within the design team on various design duties including:
Surveys/Inspections
Feasibility and other technical reports
Planning, programming and cost estimation
Design production
Production of design schedules
Reviewing and amending design drawings
Production of Specifications
Supporting development of Graduate Engineers and Technicians
Work to programme to deliver specified designs on time
Prepare technical reports (e.g. Feasibility/Options Reports, Assessment Reports and other technical reports)
Represent the business stream in multidisciplined project teams
Assist in the preparation and monitoring of the budget for projects including the planning, monitoring and reporting of project resources
Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with the client and other relevant stakeholders
Represent the business stream in multidisciplined project teams
Assist in the preparation and monitoring of the budget for projects including the planning, monitoring and reporting of project resources
Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with the client and other relevant stakeholders
Ensure innovation and best practice is highlighted and adopted where practicable
Ensure compliance with all relevant technical standards
Carry out site surveys, inspections and supervision of junior colleagues on site
Keep up to date with your own personal development to ensure the natural growth of the team

What makes this role unique

Our Highways teams impact the journeys of millions across the UK, by working in partnership with a range of clients and providing consultancy design services for Strategic and Local Highway networks.

We are passionate about the highways projects that we design and take pride in seeing our towns and cities thrive by improving connectivity, journey times and quality of life.

We want to hear from you if:

Developed experience and expertise within Highways/Civil engineering, probably gained in a Designer/Engineer role or equivalent
Comprehensive knowledge of design processes and procedures relevant to the civil engineering discipline
An ability to produce or oversee the production of technically sound Highways engineering solutions, complying with all relevant technical standards and client requirements
Experience in undertaking project related tasks associated with health, safety and welfare, e.g. Construction (Design and Management) Regulations
You are happy to agree a programme of actions towards successful achievement of industry recognised qualifications, ie Incorporated or Chartered Engineer with a relevant body

In addition to this, it would be desirable if you have good commercial awareness and knowledge of budgets and programmes to help you hit the ground running, although this is not essential as we will provide you with the required development you need to bring you up to speed.

What we offer you:

When you join us, we can offer flexibility, career development, a choice of benefits and support that help you th