
Design Manager
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- The successful delivery of the project to agreed targets, e.g. programme, budget and quality.
- Identifying and agreeing project objectivities with the Design Director and developing a strategy for achieving these.
- Identifying, escalating and managing any matters that could pose a potential contractual/commercial risk to Atkins to the Project Director (PD) at the earliest opportunity.
- Leading the project team – building, motivating, maintaining, coaching, guiding and developing the team; including providing regular feedback to all team members.
- Ensure safety is prioritised throughout delivery.
- Facilitating communication, co-ordination and information flow with the Client and within the project team, including any subcontractors and partners.
- Assembling and owning the project delivery programme and delivery plans.
- Closing out the project on completion, updating market information, ensuring that lessons learnt are captured and disseminated internally and ensuring that a Client Satisfaction survey is initiated.
- Chartered Engineer/Architect or equivalent with experience managing design commissions on large infrastructure projects.
- Experience across a range of construction projects.
- Excellent interpersonal, organisational and communication skills both verbal and written.
- Ability to manage and motivate a team and demonstrate good leadership qualities.
- Understands and has experience in deploying various forms of construction contract, particularly NEC3/ NEC4.
- Experienced at preparing Scope Definition papers, Project Execution Plans, Risk Registers, Change Control Logs and Client & Stakeholder Management plans.
- Experience of managing design projects to time, cost and quality objectives and familiar with programming and earned value techniques.
- Familiar with BIM and has an understanding of 3D modelling tools for design and coordination purposes and the associated Information attributes that can be assigned and managed within the Model.
- Customer focused with excellent client relationship management skills.