Head of Design Delivery - Wastewater

Costain; Brighton; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure solutions company in the UK seeks a Head of Design Delivery for Wastewater projects. This senior role entails leading a team of design managers, ensuring that design solutions are safe and constructible, and managing project budgets effectively. Candidates should possess extensive experience in the Water Sector and have a proven ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams to meet project objectives. This role offers an opportunity to impact significant infrastructure projects while driving innovation in design processes.

Qualifications

• Extensive Design and Build experience in the Water Sector.
• Proven track record of managing construction and design.
• Experience in leading multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead design managers and discipline design engineers.
• Ensure constructable design solutions within budgets.
• Report on design progress at Monthly Project Reviews.

Skills

Design management

Project delivery

Communication skills

Constructability

Team leadership

Education

Chartered Engineer

Job description

As a key member of the Regional Design Leadership Team, the Head of Design Delivery for Wastewater will be accountable for time, cost and quality of design production during the detail design phase and construction/commissioning support phase of our AMP8 Wastewater projects. The successful candidate will be a seasoned professional with extensive Design and Build experience in the Water Sector with strong technical capability directing teams on constructability matters. The candidate will also have exceptional communication skills and a ‘hands on’ approach to supporting our integrated Design and Delivery Teams resolving design challenges encountered during the construction phase.

Responsibilities

• Leading a team of design managers and discipline design engineers in the detail design and construction/commissioning phase of projects.
• Ensure safe and constructable design solutions are delivered within authorised sums.
• Ensure design solutions meet the requirements of CMDP+ governance procedures.
• Ensure that standard designs and design practices initiated during the solution phase are continued through to delivery.
• Ensure Supply Chain designs are successfully integrated into CMDP+ project solutions.
• Agree design budgets, monitor performance against the budget and provide forecast costs to completion for individual projects.
• Ensure Design Teams record, monitor and control design changes to maximise cost efficiency.
• Report on design progress and escalation matters at Monthly Project Reviews.
• Coordinate both internal and Client Site Conformity Inspections across the Wastewater programme.
• Ensure Design Teams deliver timely project close out documentation including As Built record drawings.
• Ensure your own continuous professional development by participating in external networking/conferences/associations/groups, to stay current on industry changes and innovations.

Essential Qualifications

• Experience of technical project delivery in a design-build environment.
• A successful track record of managing constructability in design.
• Experience in the Water Treatment Industry.
• Experience in leading and managing multi-disciplinary design teams.
• Must be delivery-driven with the ability to set targets, manage and motivate multi-disciplinary teams to deliver to time, cost and quality objectives.
• Technical and management skills.
• Able to identify and manage project/programme risk.
• Able to identify and manage changes to project scope.

Desirable

• Chartered Engineer in an engineering-related discipline.
• Experience of working in Joint Ventures.
• Experience of offsite manufactured design solutions.

About Us

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.

Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase. We do share individual feedback following an interview.

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About the Team

CMDP is a joint venture between Costain and MWHT and delivers a range of schemes to maintain and improve Southern Water’s water supply and wastewater treatment works in the eastern half of its region (Kent & Sussex).