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Job Role: Design Manager
Salary / Rate: Circa £80,000 + Car / Car Allowance + Benefits
Location: St. Asaph, North Wales – Hybrid (3 days office-based)
Our client is looking to strengthen their Design team with a Design Manager based in their St. Asaph office in North Wales. Working across AMP8 projects for Welsh Water, the successful candidate will provide technical leadership and management to a multi-disciplinary regional design team, ensuring projects are delivered to the required standards of quality, compliance, and programme.
About the Role
As a Design Manager, you’ll be responsible for:
- Establishing and maintaining Framework Design Quality Plans and ensuring they are effectively rolled out across regional teams.
- Line managing the regional design team, providing both HR support and technical leadership.
- Acting as a key client point of contact for all design-related matters.
- Supporting regional design teams and acting as a point of escalation from project level through to framework level.
- Planning workloads and resources, allocating Design Leads and design teams across projects.
- Establishing effective working relationships with Design Consultants where required, including setting clear onboarding expectations and required levels of detail.
- Working closely with Framework Managers and providing design input at framework level.
- Supporting the Head of Design with the recruitment of design engineers across the framework.
- Working collaboratively with other Regional Design Managers and the Head of Design to ensure a consistent approach to QA compliance, process development, and standardisation.
- Supporting the wider business with tenders and pre-qualification submissions.
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About you
- Proven experience managing multi-disciplinary design teams within the Water infrastructure or related sectors.
- Degree or equivalent qualification in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, or Design Engineering.
- Strong understanding of clean and wastewater systems and processes.
- Experience working with NEC contracts and within framework agreements.
- Excellent understanding of the design lifecycle, including optioneering, outline design, detailed design, and design reviews.
- Knowledge of WIMES, DWI requirements, relevant design codes, and legislation.
- Good understanding of CDM 2015 Regulations and safety-by-design principles.
- Strong organisational and workload planning skills, with experience leading and mentoring multi-disciplinary teams across varied projects.
- Ability to provide strong technical leadership, make sound technical judgements, and provide effective design governance.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build effective relationships with clients, consultants, and project delivery teams.
- Commercially aware, with the ability to consider cost, risk, and programme when developing design solutions.
- Proactive and accountable, with the ability to take ownership of design delivery from client brief through to construction support.
- Strong communication and leadership skills, with a focus on collaboration, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
- Passionate about quality, standardisation, innovation, and developing high-performing design teams.
- Proficient in the use of design management software and systems.
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If you would like to learn more about this opportunity, please reach out to Charlie Knight at Advance TRS.
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