Design Manager
Connected Kerb, United Kingdom
Job Description
Purpose Of Role:
The Design Manager is a critical role in Connected Kerb’s exciting and unprecedented expansion of EV charging infrastructure. Throughout the journey, the Design Manager is crucial for overseeing and advancing the design phase of projects, encompassing survey and design. It will focus on advancing the detailed design, production, and coordination of comprehensive design packages for our external survey, design and build partners. This is an exciting and demanding role that will offer unique challenges and ability to grow and will offer unique opportunities for advancement in the fast-growing EV sector.
The list is not comprehensive, and the individual in this role is anticipated to engage in various activities to contribute to the overall success of the company.
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for Health, Safety amp; Environment aspects across allocated projects including assurance of CDM and related activities.
- Accountable for Design Strategy, engineering specifications and standards, including selection and management of all third-party design support.
- Overseeing the design process and workflow; using both internal and external design teams to meet project design requirements, within budget, and in accordance with the required quality standards.
- Overseeing the day-to-day design operations for EV project delivery.
- Take charge of the strategy and execution of changes within the Design function, ensuring that processes, resources, and outcomes align to effectively support the anticipated business growth from 2023 onwards.
- Consistently meeting service level agreements for design completion with both internal and external design resources.
- Enforcing rigorous, industry-leading quality standards in output and drawings at every stage of the design process.
- Responsible for supporting Senior Delivery Managers in producing WPO Surveys and Designs are delivered to Connected Kerb engineering specification/design standards and estimates are processed through governance processes.
- Promoting ongoing enhancement of all business processes associated with design, whether directly or indirectly connected.
- Onboarding, and ongoing management, of third-party design partners.
- Reducing the risk of health and safety incidents through thorough, safety-oriented design output.
- Mitigating commercial and operational risks by conducting thorough design reviews and implementing effective governance measures.
- Defining and executing the future strategy of the design function to ensure its alignment with the projected business growth.
- Ensure Connected Kerb's Quality 3 Lines of Defence are adopted for quality across the delivery programme.
- Evaluate the feasibility and address risk mitigation for EV projects, while delivering the most cost-effective and functionally optimised proposal.
Requirements
Key competencies/behaviours:
Engineering amp; Design Leadership
- Ability to define, shape and design support to deliver infrastructure projects.
- Experienced approach to influencing senior stakeholders.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Ability to provide authoritative risk-based advice, acting as a source for the resolution of unique or complex problems.
Accountability and Commitment
- Client focused and able to manage counterparties at the heart of everything we do.
- Commitment to collective decisions and team player mindset.
- Has authority and responsibility for all aspects of a significant area of work, including policy formation and application.
Performance and Development
- Sets and communicates contribution expectations, metrics and outcomes for the team.
- Empowers and inspires team members to take stretch assignments.
- Delegates appropriately - monitors progress and provides support, resources and cover.
Execution and Results
- Reinforces the Company’s purpose and how each person contributes to it.
- Focuses on identifying and championing integrated solutions for clients and stakeholders.
- Involves colleagues with the right expertise to optimise decision making.
Engineering amp; Innovation
- Proven value engineering to overcome delivery issues.
- Thinks strategically to anticipate future trends and changing client needs.
- Systematises and continuously improves processes as we grow.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- gt;6 years of infrastructure design experience with a strong technical and design background with the ability to review design information and identify both value management and risk elements as appropriate.
- Record in developing long term partnerships with inte