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Role: Design Manager

Location: Manchester

Salary: c£70k+ (Depending on Experience)

Manage designers and design delivery across multi-disciplinary teams within the water industry ensuring time and quality expectations

Job Description

* Manage, direct and develop engineers, CAD technicians and graduates

* Grow the design team and maintain a positive ethos and attitude within the team

* Lead the design process on multidisciplinary water industry projects

* Challenge, improve and shape formal processes and procedures for design team and ensure work is undertaken using them

* Identify and implement appropriate software packages, and drive the use of BIM and 3D modelling where necessary

* Ensure team produce design deliverables that satisfy safety and quality requirements and are fully integrated

* Ensure team produce design deliverables within agreed timescales and hours

* Ensure team use appropriate standards, best practice and software tools

* Ensure project change for design packages is fully recorded

* Assist with estimating hours required for design packages

Experience Required

* 10 years’ experience working in the engineering design industry in a regulated sector such as: Rail, Water, Oil and gas, Nuclear, Highways, Bridges

* Graduate or HND

* Good level IT

Experience Preferred

* Experience in regulated water industry

* Track record managing multidisciplinary design teams and projects

* Experience building teams and capability of junior staff

* Driving licence & access to vehicle

* Chartered engineer or working towards chartership