Senior Design Manager

We're looking for a Senior Design Manager to join our Natural Resources team, working from home and the Falmer office, East Sussex, you'll be working on our new 7-year, cGBP1bn framework with Southern Water.

Location : agile working from home and the Falmer office, East Sussex Contract : Permanent, Full Time - flexible and part time hours may be available if desired, just let us know

Responsibilities

We're looking for a Senior Design Manager to join our NRNN business unit. Working on Water and Wastewater capital projects across the Southern Water patch, this role will lead and manage engineering design delivery for assigned projects. Spearheading and optimising the engineering assurance process for designs prepared by partner at outline design and Capital Delivery partners at tender and construction design.

Your day to day will include:

• Develop strategies including in-depth consideration of various alternatives and options to find the best/preferred solution.
• Ensure that the design solution is fully understood by engaging with the client and then to use your experience of asset management to offer solutions.
• Fulfil the role of main point of contact with the design consultants at director level to ensure the correct level of technical performance.
• Lead and manage engineering design delivery for assigned projects.
• Provide expert engineering support to the design, construction and commissioning process from project definition through to detailed design, construction, commissioning and handover of capital schemes.

What are we looking for?

This Senior Design Manager is great for you if you have:

• Chartered Engineer status with a degree level qualification (or equivalent) in an engineering discipline.
• Significant, proven relevant engineering design, construction and management experience.
• Experience of managing and driving a multi-discipline technical/engineering team with a proven track record of driving sustainable performance against challenging business targets.
• Significant knowledge of water and wastewater treatment processes.
• Experience in the application of quality procedures and document control in engineering design.

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

If you would like to explore more about the incredible growth and scale of our water business, dive into our diverse project portfolios, and uncover both current and future career opportunities. You can see more information about our water business here.

There's never been a better time to get involved, register your interest today and take the first step toward a rewarding career with us!

Rewards and benefits We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

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