Senior Design Manager - Maidstone, United Kingdom - COSTAIN GROUP PLC

COSTAIN GROUP PLC

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Maidstone, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Costain is looking to strengthen their CMDP Engineering team with the appointment of a
Senior Design Manager

About the project
CMDP is a joint venture between Costain and MWHT and delivers a range of schemes to maintain and improve Southern Water's water supply and wastewater treatment works in the eastern half its region (Kent & Sussex & Hampshire)

About the role

The Senior Design Manager will be a key member of the CMDP Design Leadership Team, accountable for the delivery of engineering solutions across the £350m AMP7 water and wastewater programme of work from initial definition of need through optioneering, solution development, detail design and construction support.

This key role will involve home and office working (Brighton & Southampton) and supporting both remote and office based Costain and MWHT design teams in Manchester.

The key accountabilities of the role will be to lead timely design production and provide strong resource management at Framework level

Key Responsibilities
Drive technical delivery within the CMDP design team and grown design capability across the region
Play an active role within the Design Leadership Team
Manage technical output and drive innovation to meet capital efficiency targets and sustainable solutions to meet our carbon targets
Help define the overall design and production strategy and ensure it delivers on CMDP's expectations
Design production and reporting of progress at Framework level
Resource Management, recruitment and on-boarding of design staff
Design team competency assurance and coordination of training needs
Manage and develop supply chain
Share best practice, knowledge, and efficiency improvements
Development and continual improvement of AMP7 design procedures and ownership of the Design Management Audit process

About You
Water sector experience with an understanding of water and wastewater treatment processes
A strong technical manager with significant line / team management experience in a Design and Build environment
A positive, results focused, flexible can-do approach with the ability to influence and motivate others
Previous experience of planning, resource management, change management and budget management
Working knowledge of CDM and construction Health & Safety
Previous experience working in Joint Ventures (preferred)
Experience with BIM and digital delivery practices
IT skills including MS Office, advanced Excel, Teams, SharePoint, (ProjectWise - desirable although not essential)
Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to work in a dynamic working environment
Full UK driving licence

About Costain

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.

We welcome all applicants regardless of age, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, socioeconomic background and physical or neurological disabilities.

We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need for dynamic working. Such as, working part-time, remote working, or compressed hours. In return, we will explore what is possible.

To find out more about our Inclusion strategy, please visit our ED&I page:

Right to Work & Security Checks
Understandably given the nature of our business, everyone who is employed at Costain must undergo thorough referencing checks. We will need different information depending on the job we have offered you.

For all roles, we'll carry out a criminal record check and we'll ask to see evidence that you have the legal right to work in the UK.

For some of our roles, you may be required to obtain and maintain security clearance of at least Security Check level (or SC clearance).

To satisfy the requirements, you will need to have been a legal UK resident for a minimum of 5 years and have successfully complete all stages of the vetting process.

Closing date

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.

It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.

For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
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