Design Manager/Senior Design Manager – MWH Treatment

Join MWH Treatment to strengthen our Engineering team as a Design Manager/Senior Design Manager based at our Maple Lodge office with hybrid working available.

Key Responsibilities

• Be committed to excellence in Health & Safety (H&S) in design, complying fully with relevant local specifications, codes, rules, regulations and requirements and all relevant H&S legislation.
• Ensure that H&S hazards are identified and managed and that all residual risks are communicated effectively to all stakeholders.
• Lead the Design team in delivery of their responsibilities and ensure a focused approach to meet customer requirements and project objectives.
• Be accountable for expenditure: drive efficiency and manage the overall outturn costs for design by producing deliverables within allocated resource hours and key dates.
• Organise all elements of design, documenting it in the Design Management Plan and preparing monthly status update reports as necessary.
• Attend and contribute to all relevant programme, project and technical meetings.
• Ensure that the technical solution is produced to outperform on costs, whilst maintaining quality standards and delivery on time.
• Provide, where required, technical support during construction, assembly and commissioning stages.
• Ensure that all technical work is undertaken to the correct standards and specifications, following the appropriate systems of work and quality assurance.
• Contribute to achieving sustainability targets, particularly by reducing embodied and operational Carbon Footprints of solutions.
• Communicate and work effectively with people from other partner organisations, backgrounds and disciplines, utilising their knowledge and experience and adding your own.
• Recognise and provide exceptional customer service both internally and with partners and externally with the client, their customers and the general public.
• Represent the whole of the MWH business and RSK Group of companies in all client contacts and promote the MWH / RSK reputation.
• Maintain a positive and solution-oriented approach to work, providing open and honest feedback.
• Undertake such other duties, training and/or hours of work as may be reasonably required, and that are consistent with the general level of responsibility of this role.
• Maintain a professional and positive image of MWH Treatment in all internal and external contact, and maintain mutually constructive, positive and beneficial relationships.
• Take all reasonable steps to ensure appropriate confidentiality.

Essential

• Extensive experience of multi-disciplinary design management in a design-build environment.
• Degree in an engineering-related discipline.
• Chartered Engineer in an engineering-related discipline.
• APM Project Fundamentals Qualification.
• Delivery-driven with the ability to set targets and manage and motivate multi-disciplinary teams to deliver to time, cost and quality objectives.
• Working knowledge of CDM regulations and construction Health & Safety.
• Extensive experience in large-scale project delivery.
• Strategic, operational, technical and management skills.
• Good general knowledge of all aspects of water treatment e.g., related process, civil and MEICA engineering aspects.
• Ability to present technical proposals clearly, confidently and convincingly.

Desirable

• Working towards or have obtained APM Project Management Qualification.
• Experience of working for a global organisation.
• Experience of working with remote/dispersed teams.
• Experience in the Water/Wastewater Treatment Industry.
• Ability to embrace collaborative and innovative working.
• Knowledge of BIM procedures and techniques.

About MWH Treatment

MWH Treatment is an integrated design and build provider working in the water sector. With over 1400 staff working across eight regional centres, we support six long-term water sector frameworks and two recently won frameworks, operating both as a sole contractor and in joint ventures and alliances.

We believe that people matter. We build successful, creative teams by fostering a diverse workforce that can deliver innovative ways of thinking and providing an environment where employees can develop and grow to their full potential. As signatories to the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant, we support former service members in their transition to civilian roles and run charitable programme Mates in Mind to promote mental health.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Hybrid Working (jobs need dependent)
• Car/car allowance (jobs need dependent)
• 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays (with an additional 5 days available to buy)
• Pension scheme contribution
• Life Assurance
• Health Insurance
• Private Medical Insurance
• Cycle to work scheme, discounts and savings hub, Kids Pass and many more benefits