Role Overview:
We are looking to recruit a Design Team Lead. Reporting to regional Design Manager, you are responsible for the coordination and production of designs for multi-disciplinary water and wastewater projects (treatment and / or infrastructure) focused primarily on electrical design, working closely with both operational and commercial teams for UK clients.
Key Responsibilities:
Provision of engineering design solutions from inception to completion, of multi-disciplinary projects, but focussed on electrical design elements
Supporting Design Managers to ensure programme and commercial compliance of design appointments
Supporting Design Managers to ensure compliance with relevant operating procedures and business processes
Ensure appropriate technical governance is applied to all designs
Review of scheme designs to ensure client specifications and standards, operational requirements and retain appropriate levels of operational security
Ensure full compliance with relevant Health, Safety and Environmental legislation
Supporting innovation, value engineering and digital design, offering advice to clients with regard to potential solutions with best whole life cost, challenging design partners and supply chain to ensure cost effectiveness in design activities and solutions through the process
Working in conjunction with delivery teams to promote integrated project delivery
Scoping project requirements through documentation review, site visits and client / supplier discussions
Working with external design companies, supply chain and where applicable, clients’ designers
Leading and mentoring a team of engineers reporting to you
Management of workload within your team, with the assistance of the Senior Design Manager
Supporting your engineers as required on more complicated aspects of the projects that they are delivering
Responsibility for ensuring that each of your engineers is delivering project deliverables on time and to appropriate quality
Experience and Qualifications:
Industry applicable professional qualifications in electrical design field
Working knowledge of water and sewage treatment
Working knowledge of multi-disciplinary engineering design
Commercial and contractual awareness
Working knowledge of Microsoft packages
Excellent communication skills
Strong customer focus