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Senior Design Manager

Camberley
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Reporting to the Framework Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for the design and delivery of non-infrastructure wastewater projects on the Thames Water AMP8 Framework. Adopting a hybrid working model, you will split your time between the Costain Offices, in London and Camberley, and Thames Water’s Office in Reading, 3 days a week, and home 2 days a week.

It is preferable that you have experience working within the water sector, specifically non-infrastructure wastewater, in either Mechanical, Electrical, ICA, or Civils disciplines in maintenance, design, or capital delivery roles. You should have the ability to motivate and lead the Design Managers working on your projects. You should be a motivated team player, with the ability to work collaboratively with multiple teams to deliver production thinking, carbon efficient design solutions.

You should also demonstrate a thorough understanding of design delivery, design procurement, design management, design control, quality assurance, BIM to ISO 19650, and have a working knowledge of the NEC4 suite of contracts.

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About Costain

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation, and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising, and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation, or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation; and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

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Opportunities with Thames Water

Costain are working with Thames Water on a variety of water and wastewater projects and have fantastic opportunities for individuals to join our growing AMP7 delivery team, working predominantly across the Thames Valley and Thames South regions. There is a mix of projects ranging from smaller capital maintenance to large civil new build schemes.

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Skills

Design Management
Wastewater Engineering
NEC4 Contracts
BIM ISO 19650
Design Procurement
Quality Assurance
CDM 2015 Regulations
Multi-disciplinary Project Delivery
Carbon Efficient Design
Leadership
Collaboration
Programme Management

Location

Camberley, England, United Kingdom

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