Senior Design Manager – MEPH

Around the world, SYSTRA’s specialists plan, design, integrate, test, commission, project manage and deliver mass transit and mobility solutions that are relied on by more than 50 million people every day.

For more than 60 years, the Group has been committed to helping cities and regions contribute to their development by creating, improving and modernising their transport infrastructure with sustainability, accessibility and innovation at the heart of our designs. With over 10,300 colleagues globally and around 1000 in the UK & Ireland we are growing significantly and seeking out the very best talent to join the SYSTRA signature team and be part of leading the way in infrastructure design.

SYSTRA are immediately hiring for a Senior Design Manager - MEPHFC to join our team in the Mechanical & Electrical Engineering Discipline, focusing on supporting one of our most high-profile joint venture rail infrastructure projects, based in West London.

The Senior MEPHFC Design Manager reports through the Design Delivery Manager to the Lead Design Manager, who is the accountable person for the compliant design being constructed, tested and handed over in line with the accepted program of works.

The Senior Design Manager is the first point of contact for MEPHFC design matters between all Construction Partner delivery teams and package contractors, Design Management and the Consultant, using existing processes, procedures, plans and strategies to deliver assured MEPHFC designs to construction teams, in support of the schedule. Managing a team of Design Managers, this role balances its own, and the team’s priorities throughout peaks and troughs of demand.

• Review and acceptance of Consultant’s program and cost reporting relevant to MEPHFC
• Timely resolution of interfaces between MEPHFC and all other disciplines and work packages
• Support the Design team from design management and delivery perspective
• Raising and responding to GCs, EWs, RFIs and EIs / CEs that impact the MEPHFC design, but with supply chain and with the employer
• Management of the change resulting from maturing HS2 and Network Rail rail systems
• Client liaison
• Liaise with Designers and Subcontractors to manage the acceptance of design related deliverables
• Review submissions for quality, interfacing and completeness
• Ensure constructability reviews are held prior to design submissions
• Ensure Value Engineering opportunities are developed through the approved process
• Support technical change through the approved change control procedures

• Act as the lead MEPH design management point of contact for the Subcontractor’s design to other departments, e.g. Commercial, Planning, Controls and Delivery, as well as the Consultant.
• Manage the process of checking by the Consultant compatibility of Subcontractor’s submissions with the permanent works design intent. Review, comment and provide input and acceptance on the subcontractor’s proposals, in particular with focus on quality, interfacing & integration of other works
• Agree with Package delivery team the most effective means of delivering the MEPHFC detailed design and technical coordination
• Lead on the coordination of programme interfaces between FRC, structural, architectural and MEPHFC suppliers
• Monitor compliance with the design responsibilities for the MEPHFC scope through the subcontractor’s works and design submissions
• Manage subcontractor’s design proposals including compliant substitute designs, departure / derogations and alternative design not in line with the RIBA 4 assured design and specifications
• Raising and responding to GCs, EWs, RFIs, TQs and EIs / CEs that impact the subcontractors MEPHFC design and on behalf the Construction department and MEPHFC Package Managers
• Manage the coordination of detailed design between the Consultant, the Construction Partner, subcontractors and their suppliers
• Manage and implement change through the subcontractors technical assurance process
• Manage the Consultant’s RIBA 5 Site Support team’s outputs
• Manage change and variations to the subcontractor’s scope after point of formal instruction or before, where required
• Support…