Design Manager - Somerset

Contract Type: Permanent

Full Time - 40 hours - Monday to Friday

Salary - £55,000 - £60,000

The sole provider of Lot 3 - Western Geotechnical Off-Track and Drainage - as part of Network Rail Wales and Western region’s £2bn programme of works. The Lot stretches from London Paddington to Penzance and involves the ongoing maintenance & renewals programme of civil engineering assets such as embankments, cuttings, scour protection, and earthworks drainage.

As part of the year 2 plan, we are currently looking to recruit a Design Manager to join the team operating out of the Bristol Office and be responsible the permanent works design subcontract packages to achieve delivery of cost-effective and compliant Contractor’s design within agreed timescales and fee budgets

Duties

• Facilitate review of design deliverables to ensure required compliance is achieved.
• Provide support to Contractors Engineering Manager, CEM, during design process
• Complete period dashboard, good understanding and use of excel, formulae , graphs etc and ideally power-bi or willingness to learn.
• Ensure all project trackers are completed, up to date and deliverables tracked as needed. Design coordinator is expected to support Design Manager
• Oversee fulfilment of Principal Designer, Common Safety Method, and Engineering Safety Management functions to the extent that Taylor Woodrow has relevant duties to discharge on the particular project
• Lead administration of design sub-contract;
• Lead administration of main contract with regard to Contractor’s design (raise Early Warnings, Compensation Event notifications etc.)
• Monitor cost and schedule performance of sub-contracted designers using EPPR proforma from Design Manager’s Toolkit (or project-specific EVM based pro-forma).
• Review subcontracted designers’ applications for payment and authorize as appropriate
• With support of TW and Design Consultant’s BIM specialists participate in development of project BIM strategy oversee implementation of BIM Execution Plan

Person Specification

• HND/Degree in an engineering discipline
• CSCS
• Understand the requirements of ISO 9001 with respect to design
• Understanding of NR/L2/INI/02009, NR/L2/CIV/003, NR/L2/CIV/003, NR/L2/P3M/201 and ability to manage works to these requirements
• Preferred Civil engineering background, experience of Earthworks and heavy civils

Preferred experience of framework environment, and experience of multiple projects over multiple geographic locations

If you would like to find out more about this opportunity OR are keen to apply you can do so by contacting Thomas Barber via 07710096554/ t.barber@calco.co.uk  You can also apply directly via this advert.

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