Job Description

The Design Manager will work within the in-house design team, and manage the design delivery process for both the in-house design team and external designers on multi-disciplinary projects or frameworks that are being led by the in-house design team. As Design Manager for AmcoGiffen your remit will include, but not be limited to:
Tender Stage
Review Tender / Remit documentation and establish AmcoGiffen design scope and responsibilities, including identification of BIM requirements.
Work in accordance with the AmcoGiffen Design Management and BIM Procedures. Review of procedures and suggest improvements.
Assisting with the consultant selection process and ensuring AmcoGiffen design scope is allocated to an appropriate designer, making use of any available performance information.
Preparing the Design Brief and issuing to the Design Consultant.
Ensure an appropriate Category of Design Check is identified.
Agreeing the design programme and monitoring the progress of design through the pre-contract phase.
Acting as the main interface between the Design Consultant and the bid or project team, to ensure the flow of information.
Reviewing quotations / proposals from designers against the design brief and ensuring that all required scope items are priced and programmed.
Ensure project risks and design assumptions are communicated to the bid team.
Identify and raise Technical Queries for design and BIM related items.
Assist with reviewing CDM Competency Assessments from designers.
Assist with writing / preparing Tender submission responses.
Contract Stage
Conducting and facilitating the Design Start-up Meeting.
Assist the commercial team in preparing information for the designer appointment.
Complete Design / Engineering Management Plan.
Ensure information to complete design is identified and exchanged at the appropriate time and in accordance with the project BIM Execution plan where applicable.
Ensuring that the design is checked and certified appropriately, and that design decisions that have led to the proposed solution are recorded.
Challenging the design consultant on residual risks and communicating them to the Project Delivery Team.
Monitor the progress of design delivery against agreed programme.
Conduct interdisciplinary coordination meetings.
Identify and raise Technical Queries/Requests for Information for design and BIM related items.
Conducting Design Reviews.
Ensure change is identified and managed in accordance with the change procedure, working with the commercial teams.
Review designer performance and record scores in performance database.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

To excel in this role, you will have previous experience as a Design Manager in a rail and civil engineering environment. Degree / HNC or HND in civil engineering (or equivalent compensating experience in a technical engineering role) Experience as Design Manager in a multi-disciplinary rail contracting environment. CRE (Contractors Responsible Engineer) experience