Design Manager

Do you have experience in the leadership of multi discipline engineering design teams within highly regulated sectors?
Are you eligible for UK nuclear security clearance?
if the answer is yes, I have an excellent opportunity to lead major design projects across a £1bn nuclear site expansion project, so get in touch now to avoid missing out!
The Opportunity
Due to projects ramping up, an exciting opportunity has become available for an experienced Design Manager to join a well-established engineering consultancy.
As a Design Manager, you will set the overall technical direction for projects and act as a key decision maker, ensuring a suitable balance between all potentially conflicting drivers is achieved. To oversee the development of design delivery schedules, ensuring all relevant disciplines are accounted for, and manage the interface between these disciplines throughout the design development. To represent the project from a technical perspective at key stakeholder meetings, having overall oversight of the basis for key design decisions, and a detailed understanding of the technical position of the project.
The role
As a Design Manager, you will be responsible for the identification of proportionate and appropriate design solutions. 
This role will be Inside IR35.
Your duties and responsibilities will be

• Ensuring appropriate stakeholder engagement in projects.
• Ensuring a joined-up approach between engineering disciplines is achieved.
• Ensuring logical, achievable, integrated cross-discipline schedules are developed.
• Accountable for monitoring delivery of the technical aspects of projects in line with the agreed scope and schedule. Ensuring any deviance is appropriately justified, understood and managed.
• Escalating issues where resource conflicts between projects exist.

You will have the following qualifications & experience

• Degree in relevant Engineering discipline.
• Chartered member of a relevant Engineering Institute.
• Experience needed
• A minimum of 4 years’ experience in an engineering position
• Experience of leading teams to deliver technical packages of work

It’s great if you also have the following

• Good cross discipline technical knowledge and appreciation.
• Thorough knowledge of and experience applying robust engineering
• processes, ideally within the nuclear industry.
• Thorough appreciation of international and UK standards, legislation and
• regulations relating to engineering and design.
• Sound knowledge of current health and safety legislation.
• Excellent IT skills, including Windows and Microsoft applications,
• Documentum and SAP.
• Ability to maintain and develop own technical knowledge to ensure the best.
• cost effective and safe solutions are proposed and implemented.
• Capable of producing high quality technical documentation including
• functional and technical specifications and project documentation.
• Skilled in exercising authority in the control of contractors and suppliers.
• Excellent communication, reporting, & presentation, skills.

Get in touch now
If you're on the lookout for a new opportunity and think you have the skills and experience we are seeking then this could be the role for you so apply now or contact Louis Wellings via LinkedIn.
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