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Design Manager

Atkinsréalis 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom

Hybrid Full-time Senior

Lead the delivery of multi-disciplinary infrastructure projects from concept to construction, ensuring targets for programme, budget, and quality are met. Manage project teams, facilitate client communication, and oversee contractual and commercial risks.

Responsibilities

  • The successful delivery of the project to agreed targets, e.g. programme, budget and quality
  • Identifying and agreeing project objectivities with the Design Director and developing a strategy for achieving these
  • Identifying, escalating and managing any matters that could pose a potential contractual/commercial risk to AtkinsRéalis to the Project Director (PD) at the earliest opportunity
  • Leading the project team – building, motivating, maintaining, coaching, guiding and developing the team, including providing regular feedback to all team members
  • Ensure safety is prioritised throughout delivery
  • Facilitating communication, co-ordination and information flow with the Client and within the project team, including any subcontractors and partners
  • Assembling and owning the project delivery programme and delivery plans
  • Closing out the project on completion, updating market information, ensuring that lessons learnt are captured and disseminated internally and ensuring that a Client Satisfaction survey is initiated

Requirements

  • Chartered Engineer/Architect or equivalent with experience managing design commissions on large infrastructure projects
  • Experience across a range of construction projects
  • Excellent interpersonal, organisational and communication skills both verbal and written
  • Ability to manage and motivate a team and demonstrate good leadership qualities
  • Understands and has experience in deploying various forms of construction contract, particularly NEC3/ NEC4
  • Experienced at preparing Scope Definition papers, Project Execution Plans, Risk Registers, Change Control Logs and Client & Stakeholder Management plans

Benefits

  • Competitive salaries
  • Employee rewards
  • Brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices
  • Opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise
  • Hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances

Key Skills

Project management Design management Construction contracts NEC3/ NEC4 Scope Definition papers Project Execution Plans Risk Registers Change Control Logs Client & Stakeholder Management plans Leadership Communication Team management Motivation Coaching Guiding Developing teams Feedback Safety Coordination Information flow Project delivery programme Delivery plans Client Satisfaction survey BIM 3D modelling tools Information attributes Customer focus Client relationship management

About Atkinsréalis

We are a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world’s infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. ---

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