Design Manager
Royal BAM Group
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Birmingham • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Serve as the primary point of contact for the Client on all design-related matters, ensuring clear, timely, and professional communication
- Prepare and deliver regular progress reports and financial updates to the client and other stakeholders
- Facilitate design reviews, technical assurance meetings, and progress meetings to keep the client informed and engaged
- Administer design contracts in accordance with NEC principles, ensuring compliance with contractual obligations and project requirements
- Work closely with the commercial team to manage contract changes, compensation events, and early warnings, maintaining accurate records and documentation
- Liaise with and facilitate communication between various design partners, commercial and planning teams to integrate those work streams
- Support the resolution of contractual issues and disputes, ensuring fair and timely outcomes for all parties.
- Lead the design process for slab track systems, coordinating with internal teams, external partners, and suppliers
- Ensure the design is progressing in line with the programme
- Manage the designers’ budget alongside the Commercial team and ensure the project runs to budget
- Manage the resolution of early warnings and compensation events
- Prepare minutes, notes and reports as required to ensure effective communication and accurate records are maintained.
Requirements
- Strong leadership and management skills, with a positive and collaborative approach
- Enthusiastic team player, able to listen, understand, engage and motivate, and with confidence to make decisions when required
- Strong working knowledge of NEC contracts and their application in major infrastructure projects
- Degree qualification in civil engineering or equivalent
- Experience in project management design and/or engineering management of Railway Infrastructure
- Preferably knowledge of HS2 processes and standards
- Ability to work in a collaborative multidisciplinary team environment
- A good commercial understanding of contracts, procurement routes and risk management.
- Excellent communication skills, both at the personal level and more formal reporting level. Maintaining a professional approach with clients and their professional teams, sub-contractors and suppliers
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Company car/car allowance/travel allowance
- 8 % matched pension contributions
- Private healthcare
- Life assurance
- 26 days holiday
- 2 wellbeing days
- 1 volunteering day
- Personal and professional development
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
project managementdesign managementcontract administrationbudget managementdesign process coordinationNEC contractsrailway infrastructure designrisk managementfinancial reportingtechnical assurance
Soft skills
leadershipcollaborationcommunicationteamworkdecision makingproblem solvingengagementmotivationprofessionalisminterpersonal skills
Certifications
degree in civil engineering