Engineering​/Design Manager

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Réalis Infrastructure Project Delivery Practice (PDP) is the centre of excellence for the delivery of infrastructure projects and combines the best in project management and design management to provide a full suite of services to clients in the public and private sectors. The team is responsible for delivery of design services across our markets of Water Infrastructure, Defence Infrastructure, Nuclear, Aviation, Energy, Rail (stations), and Urban Developments.

We have an exciting vacancy within the Infrastructure PDP and are seeking an enthusiastic Engineering / Design Manager to join our North, Scotland, and Northern Ireland (NS&NI) practice, based from our Manchester office.

• Responsible for authoring and maintenance of a robust Design Management Plan, drawing contribution from the discipline leads in accordance with governance processes. Contribute to the production and development of the Project Execution Plan.
• Ensure all discipline leads have contributed to the production and development of the project BIM Execution Plan appropriately. Ensure the implementation of an agreed platform for project collaboration is in place. Deliver the Basis of Design.
• Ensure Technical Quality Assurance/Control processes are in place. Develop, manage, and track the list of deliverables. Develop simple, effective technical delivery processes to improve the production of design deliverables to time/cost/quality. Ensure that all key design choices and requirements are clearly captured and documented through agreed tools or forms. Work collaboratively with the Project Manager and discipline leads in communicating with client stakeholders where additional scope is occurring.
  
  First point of contact to co‑ordinate the resolution of technical issues.
• Host stakeholder meetings to ensure full involvement in the developed design process and that operational requirements are integrated into the design. Facilitate meeting actions and close out. Promote, motivate and mentor the multi‑disciplinary design team. Provide multi‑disciplinary linkage between the delivery teams.
• Ensure effective communications take place within the team, with proportionate use of Teams, in‑person workshops etc. Liaise regularly with the discipline for effectively managing resources and coordinate with the Project Manager.
• Provide input to annual performance reviews for multi‑discipline staff within the team. Contribute to identification of commercial and technical risks. Ensure the scope and level of design information is executed. Agree programme and identification of key milestones and model release.
• Ensure commercial arrangements are coordinated with the teams, documented and instructed. Monitor resource requirements and ensure discipline leads have access to adequate and appropriate resource to deliver the project. Ensure delivery to programme and monitor/control budget for their designated part of the works.
• Actively seek additional workflows to increase revenue while working with the Project Manager to ensure that contract commercial coverage and programme adjustments have been agreed before the start of the project. Work collaboratively with the Project Manager to ensure change control process is in place. Requirements capture. Ensure assessment of technical competencies have practice sign off.
• Ensure multi‑disciplinary compliance with the design brief and their contribution towards designated part of the works. Apply and reinforce standard designs and products across contracted work scope. Rigorously challenge the teams to drive efficiency in the design programmes. Convene regular cross‑team technical meetings to ensure multi‑disciplinary co‑ordination and consistency of output across the project.
• Lead multi‑disciplinary technical and CDM reviews for their designated part of the works. Ensure multi‑disciplinary co‑ordination of design and consistency of output for their designated part of the works. Ensure technical assurance is undertaken with necessary discipline sign off. Deliver design reviews,…