MEP Design Manager - required to work for Principal Contractor on Major High Speed Rail London Tunnels Programme.
Contract - Inside IR35 - Contract to Feb 2028 initially.
Based North Acton/Willesden Junction
Hybrid Working Arrangements - 3 days in the office, 2 days WFH.
MEP Design Management, Lift/elevator experience highly desirable.
Role Brief:
As the Design Manager within the MEPH team, you will take a leading role in the completion of the Stage 5 (Design for Construction & Manufacturing) MEPH design. You will be the principle point of contact for design for the allocated subcontract supply chain members. Manage the MEP scope associated with assets.
Key Responsibilities
Stage 5 Supply Chain Design Management:
-Management of Supply Chain Stage 5 Design Deliverables, ensuring that the supply chain submit quality deliverables in a timely manner
-Management of Stage 5 supplier queries, interfacing with supply chain and parties to provide responses in a proactive and collaborative manner.
-Reporting on progress of design for your subcontract packages, identifying key risks and issues and ensuring that these are communicated with the Package Manager (Delivery) and Commercial Package Manager.
Stage 4 Contractors Detailed Design:
-Management of Stage 4 design queries and defects. Supporting the Stage 5 designers with identifying these and managing the resolution
-Managing the Stage 4 resources allocated to your package, ensuring that they're resources are prioritised and allocated in an efficient manner.
CDM Management
-Work closely with the CDM lead to ensure that all CDM requirements are met
-Ensure that robust risk reviews are undertaken as defined in the process
-Ensure that CDM risks are appropriately communicated between the design parties and with the construction team.
Previous Experience & Skills Required:
-Experience of design management for MEP.
-Experience of detailed design within an MEP setting
-Have a knowledge of relevant policies and standards related to MEP Design
-Experience of working within a large scale self assured design environment.
-Capable of working independently and proactively to progress works but also skilled at working collaboratively with other integrated team members and external stakeholders for the overall benefit of the project.
-Experience in the management of the implementation of the requirements of the Construction and Design Management Regs 2015 in design
-Computer competence (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Document Control Systems, Auto CAD, Navisworks and Projectwise).
-Excellent communication skills and ability to adjust communication style to suite receiver
