SEMD Design Lead

The Role:

Bridges is delivering a programme of SEMD interventions / compliance upgrades across the Thames Water estate. Our schemes are across a range of sites of varying size and complexity.

• Manage and support design elements and deliverables for the programme.
• To lead, develop and grow a team of seconded engineers, designers, associated support team members, and subcontracted specialists to support the programme
• To support a seamless interface between design, PM, planners, commercial teams, client, external technical supports, suppliers, etc.
• Ensure deliverables are agreed, assigned, and understood (clarity) at all stages from outline design to final handover. Ensure dates are agreed, shared with the PM and Planners, checked in on, and achieved. Advise any potential opportunities, delays, risks, changes to programme or planned costs.
• Coordinate, review and chase RFI schedules to ensure identified information is available when needed to prevent delays.
• Innovate, challenge and support across projects and designs. Considering continuous improvement, opportunities, and any areas of potential noncompliance.
• Identify and manage scope change in design, being mindful of change control requirements, revised risk and potential programme change. Advise the PM/Commercial of potential contractual and programme implications and mitigation.
• Support identification of Temporary Works, ensuring the delivery team have it correctly identified, communicated and managed.
• Support production of specifications and/or statements of need for plant, contract designs, and survey works, ensuring clarity of outputs and standards expected to meet ours and our clients needs, and industry standards, legislation, etc.
• Address any challenges and coordinate design or technical teams to support efficient and effective resolution. Identify and be a part of escalation for any identified issues or risks.
• Oversee, support and coordinate contracted design, survey or other technical support contractors, reviewing costs, programmes, agreed deliverables, specifications, etc.
• Forecasting of design labour requirements, future needs, potential skills gaps, and capacity. Discuss needs with Design Managers to ensure team secondments cover needs of the projects.
• Be a part of design assurance, ensuring key stages and reviews are completed, as defined in the Bridges Way, to include, DRAs, ALMs, Buildability, HAZOPs, etc. Be a part of other technical and commercial reviews during the design and construction phases.
• Support periodic reviews of deliverables, cross referencing information to ensure alignment between disciplines.
• Attend project related meetings online, in person, at our offices, sites or client's offices, to represent the design and technical team and develop and maintain strong relationships and communication channels with all stakeholders.
• Managing sitewide CAD GA drawings, and minor civils GA’s
• Review & approval or all internal and external design outputs assisted by the project delivery team to the requires standards & specifications.
• Management of design documentation revision & submission to client Management systems
• Generating design risk registers, reports & supporting documentation as required to meet the project brief as the PD representative.
• Generation & distribution of technical specifications and scopes of work to the supply chain.
• Management of communication including design meetings both internally and externally with the supply chain to achieve project goals.
• Interrogation & application of security standards, specifications & scopes of work for all design outputs.
  • Client standards, NPSA standards, WUKSS, LPCB standards etc
• Site surveys, investigations & visits

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