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Senior Design Manager

Costain Group 🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom

Full-time Senior

The Senior Design Manager is responsible for the design delivery of water projects on the Northumbrian Water AMP8 Framework. This includes managing design partners, ensuring compliance with standards, and coordinating design risks and technical reviews.

Responsibilities

  • The Senior Design Manager is responsible for the design delivery of water projects on the Northumbrian Water AMP8 Framework. This includes managing design partners, ensuring compliance with standards, and coordinating design risks and technical reviews.

Requirements

  • Candidates must possess a civil engineering qualification and practical delivery experience within the water sector. Proficiency in NEC4 contracts, BIM standards, and strong stakeholder management skills are essential for this role.

Key Skills

Civil engineering Water sector expertise NEC4 contract management BIM standards Stakeholder management Design delivery Risk coordination Technical review coordination Compliance management Project management Team leadership Design partner coordination Infrastructure design Construction consulting Digital collaboration

About Costain Group

Costain helps to improve people’s lives by creating connected, sustainable infrastructure that enables people and the planet thrive. We shape, create and deliver pioneering solutions that transform the performance of the infrastructure ecosystem across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We are organised around our customers anticipating and solving their challenges and helping to improve performance. By bringing together our unique mix of construction, consulting and digital experts we engineer and deliver sustainable, efficient and practical solutions. Our ambition is to become a net zero business by 2035, while enhancing biodiversity and natural capital, and we have plans in place to deliver this. We are committed to procure responsibly and to be an inclusive and accessible business for all, enabling us to be our best while focusing on the outcomes that we deliver for people and planet. At Costain, we have a vibrant, challenging and growing business – a

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