Design Lead

Design Lead/ Manager

Salary: Competitive + Car

Location: Surrey

Contract Type: Full Time Permanent

9 Day Fortnight

Our client is recruiting a Design Lead to support their growing environmental team with particular emphasis on leading a large engineering project or supporting a portfolio of projects. The team undertakes a variety of engineering projects for clients in the Flood Coastal and Maritime sector including appraisal, business case development, outline design, detailed design and site supervision.

Operating as a design lead to the engineering team(s) across the UK, the candidate for this role should have a strong technical base and have good experience in the appraisal and design of flood risk management schemes. The primary purpose of the role is to undertake and co-ordinate design within a multi-disciplinary engineering team ensuring consistent quality and timeliness of output. You will be accountable for the planning and execution of engineering projects to the defined scope, cost and programme.

You will work closely with clients, junior team members and other specialist teams throughout the business to deliver the projects. The ability to travel to Client offices and project sites is essential. Where a key role is needed to support a major project travel to a co-located office will be needed on a regular basis.

About the Role

• Co-ordination of design output across all technical disciplines.
• Carrying out and supervising others in the production of appraisal reports, design drawings, reports, specifications, and calculations, within agreed timescales and budgets.
• Ensuring technical, safety and environmental requirements are met on designs. Being seen as a trusted technical advisor.
• Acting as Technical Authority on projects and ensuring that all deliverables are compliant with our quality management system.
• Establishing and maintaining good relationships with clients, staff and the supply chain to ensure effective project delivery and assist in winning new work.
• Oversight of and site supervision of engineering projects.

Essential Requirements

• The role is suitable for candidates with a background in Civil/Water Engineering with good experience in several of the following disciplines: hydraulics, geotechnics, hydraulic structures, contract management, health & safety and construction.
• You should possess following qualifications: Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering or related discipline; Chartered Engineer.
• You should possess and be able to demonstrate the following skills: commercial acumen; continuous improvement in project execution; effective management and pastoral care for a team; proactive resource management and proactive leadership.

Desirable Requirements

• Demonstrate good written, verbal and presentation communication skills.
• Demonstrate experience in building up costs for production of engineering deliverables, predominantly under the NEC suite of contracts, and the knowledge of programme management tools.
• Ability to show technical leadership within the consultancy team leading medium to large multidiscipline teams.
• Ability to provide leadership, direction, guidance, training and mentoring to your team and others.
• Ability to develop and maintain regular customer contacts to proactively offer and expand services.
• UK Driving Licence.

At First Recruitment Group we understand just how important it is to secure the right people. That is why our Recruitment Consultants always take the time to understand requirements in detail and offer sound advice to both clients and candidates.

We actively recruit at all levels and this is a superb opportunity for a Design Manager looking for new employment.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences.