Engineering​/Design Manager

Job Description Overview

The AtkinsRéalis Infrastructure Project Delivery Practice (PDP) is the Centre of excellence for the delivery of infrastructure projects and combines the best in project management and design management to provide a full suite of services to clients in the public and private sectors. The team is responsible for delivery of design services across our markets of Water Infrastructure, Defence Infrastructure, Nuclear, Aviation, Energy, Rail (stations), and Urban Developments.

We have an exciting vacancy within the Infrastructure PDP and are seeking an enthusiastic Engineering / Design Manager to join our North, Scotland, and Northern Ireland (NS&NI) practice, based from our Manchester office.

This role offers an excellent opportunity for a talented person who wants to take the next step in their career and take responsibility for projects from inception through to completion. You will be an established Engineering / Design Manager within the infrastructure sector; this role offers the chance to develop your career and expand your experiences across a wide range of exciting projects across varied markets.

The position is likely to combine agile working from our NS&NI offices with time at client offices and sites. Our need to recruit comes from the success of our division and our pipeline and expected growth within the Northern regions across a variety of sectors, predominantly in Nuclear, Defence, Energy and Water. A role within the Infrastructure PDP offers the opportunity to work on the full suite of projects AtkinsRéalis delivers, be it refurbishment and new build projects, nuclear new build, defence, water projects and many more, which will enable you to demonstrate and progress your project management skills, knowledge and experience.

• Responsible for authoring and maintenance of a robust Design Management Plan, drawing contribution from the discipline leads in accordance with governance processes. Contribute to the production and development of the Project Execution Plan.
• Ensure all discipline leads have contributed to the production and development of the project BIM Execution Plan appropriately. Ensure the implementation of an agreed platform for project collaboration is in place. Deliver the Basis of Design.
• Ensure Technical Quality Assurance/Control processes are in place. Develop, manage, and track the list of deliverables. Develop simple, effective technical delivery processes to improve the production of design deliverables to time/cost/quality. Ensure that all key design choices and requirements are clearly captured and documented through agreed tools or forms. Work collaboratively with the Project Manager and discipline leads in communicating with client stakeholders where additional scope is occurring.
  
  First point of contact to co‑ordinate the resolution of technical issues.
• Host stakeholder meetings to ensure full involvement in the developed design process and that operational requirements are integrated into the design. Facilitate meeting actions and close out. Promote, motivate and mentor the multi‑disciplinary design team. Provide multi‑disciplinary linkage between the delivery teams.
• Ensure effective communications take place within the team, with proportionate use of Teams, in person workshops etc. Liaise regularly with the discipline for effectively managing resources and coordinate with the Project Manager.
• Provide input to annual performance reviews for multi‑discipline staff within the team. Contribute to identification of commercial and technical risks. Ensure the scope and level of design information is executed. Agree programme and identification of key milestones and model release.
• Ensure commercial arrangements are coordinated with the teams, documented and instructed. Monitor resource requirements and ensure discipline leads have access to adequate and appropriate resource to deliver the project. Ensure delivery to programme and monitor/control budget for their designated part of the works.
• Actively seek additional workflows to increase revenue while working with the Project Manager to ensure that contract commercial coverage and programme…