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Senior Design Manager

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

Full-time Senior

Manage design delivery for water projects on the Northumbrian Water AMP8 Framework, including design partners, project teams, contracts, deliverables, programmes, and budgets. Ensure compliant, safe, buildable, and carbon-efficient designs through design reviews, risk and assurance processes, BIM strategy implementation, and coordination with framework and project stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Manage design delivery for water projects on the Northumbrian Water AMP8 Framework, including design partners, project teams, contracts, deliverables, programmes, and budgets. Ensure compliant, safe, buildable, and carbon-efficient designs through design reviews, risk and assurance processes, BIM strategy implementation, and coordination with framework and project stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Requires a civil engineering qualification and practical delivery experience, experience managing complex or sensitive programmes, and practical experience with NEC4 contracts. Candidates should have strong organisational, communication, and stakeholder-management skills, a proactive approach, SMSTS and CSCS credentials, and a full UK driving licence; water-industry experience and relevant chartered status are desirable.

Key Skills

Design delivery management Water infrastructure design Project coordination Contract management Budget management Risk and assurance processes BIM strategy Stakeholder coordination Civil engineering knowledge NEC4 contracts Organizational skills Communication Leadership SMSTS CSCS Driving licence

About Costain Group Plc

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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