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Job Title: Design Manager

Role Purpose

The Design Manager is a key member of the Design Management team.

You will assist the Head of Design Management and the relevant Business Unit General Manager to ensure:

• Design compliance

• Quality standards

• Successful delivery of a portfolio of design projects

Additional responsibilities include:

• Promoting Omexom within the industry to support business development and employee engagement

• Setting a high standard for stakeholder management across the project team

• Ensuring the design teams uphold stakeholder management best practices

• Demonstrating commercial and financial awareness to manage project scope changes efficiently

• Encouraging engineering innovation and value engineering with a focus on sustainability

Other key tasks:

• Supporting the technical design team in developing and reviewing Processes and Procedures, ensuring adherence during scheme development

• Assessing the impact of one project’s design on concurrent projects, and supporting resource allocation

• Understanding NEC and other relevant contract types

• Managing the design programme, design scope deliverables, and reporting progress or delays accurately

• Acting as custodian of design change, managing change registers, EWNs, nCEs, and PMIs per contractual provisions

• Collaborating with commercial managers, quantity surveyors, project managers, and internal designers to manage project communications

• Managing and registering Technical Queries (TQs) and Requests for Information (RFIs)

• Liaising with the Principal Designer regarding communications for permanent and temporary works

• Promoting a proactive team culture and sharing lessons learned and best practices

Responsibilities & Duties

Including but not limited to:

• Lead and manage the overall design programme, ensuring timely and accurate reporting

• Produce design programmes with input from design teams and OEMs, meeting client deliverables

• Coordinate tender estimates and technical responses

• Ensure timely, on-budget delivery of project design scopes in line with customer requirements, quality, safety, and CDM 2015 regulations

• Promote ‘smarter working’ practices

• Encourage a culture of safety, health, and environmental awareness

• Drive innovation and collaboration within the design team

• Manage technical and scope changes across projects

• Compile monthly project reports

• Seek opportunities to deliver safer, faster, and more profitable outcomes

• Maintain key project documentation

• Ensure compliance with Omexom’s governance and customer requirements

• Review method statements/risk assessments to ensure design compliance

• Ensure Energy Transmission projects comply with client specifications and supplier requirements

Key Interfaces

Stakeholders and working relationships include:

• Business Unit General Managers (BUGM)

• Design Delivery Managers / Heads of Design

• Project Directors / Project Managers

• Designers and Technicians

• Site Managers

• Estimating and Planning Engineers

• Key Consultants, Subcontractors, and Suppliers

• Client Representatives

Person Specification

Qualifications & Experience

Essential:

• 8+ years in a related role

• Relevant qualifications (Construction Management, Engineering, Project Management, etc.)

• Proven ability to deliver design projects

• High attention to detail

• Strong belief in team development

• Experience in design delivery and design management

• Proven track record of safe, timely, and high-quality program delivery

• Experience interfacing with internal and external stakeholders

• Solid technical foundation and engineering experience

• Experience managing projects ranging from standard to complex

• Proven leadership in managing multi-disciplinary and multicultural teams

• Degree qualified in Engineering, Project Management, or related discipline

Desired:

• Experience in energy transmission and distribution projects

• Background in UK Energy or highly regulated industries

• Membership in a relevant professional institution

Competencies

Required skills, knowledge, and abilities:

• Strong knowledge of SSEN and National Grid design management/approvals processes

• Excellent management and organisational skills

• Understanding of information management (incl. ISO19650 – BIM)

• Knowledge of CDM 2015 regulations, especially Principal Designer requirements

• Awareness of roles such as LCDAE and CDAE for National Grid projects

• Experience with National Grid design assurance and Type Approval

• Ability to meet commercial targets and work under pressure

• High proficiency in Microsoft Office

• Strong customer focus

• Commitment to safety and quality standards

Values

Aligned with Omexom’s core values:

• Team Spirit & Generosity: Contribute effectively to team efforts and performance

• Trust & Empowerment: Manage time and responsibilities independently and professionally

• Integrity & Responsibility: Take ownership of duties to deliver high-quality outcomes

• Innovation & Entrepreneurship: Continuously seek to improve processes and drive efficiency