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Jacobs Transportation has an enviable reputation in Highways, Rail and Aviation. The Highways UK infrastructure consultancy sector contains a portfolio of high-profile projects with clients that include National Highways (NH), Transport Scotland, Welsh Government, Transport Infrastructure Ireland (NII), international, national and regional contractors and various Local Authorities. Our Highways team provides comprehensive consultancy and engineering services to the highways sector, covering the full spectrum of highway infrastructure requirements, from business case and project development, preliminary appraisal and feasibility studies through to detailed design, implementation, operational management advice, and operations and maintenance.
Jacobs are looking for Design Managers (DMs) who will technically lead and manage the provision of consultancy services to major clients in the Transportation sector delivering a range of multi-disciplinary projects in the UK, Europe and across the globe. DMs are accountable for all aspects of the day-to-day engineering and technical delivery of work on specific projects. They support the technical interface between the Project and the engineering and technical disciplines, providing direction, guidance, and support as required. The DM is responsible for delivering a safe design, ensuring the scope is well-defined, and that there is a clear understanding of the project schedule and the budget for each activity to be carried out by each discipline.
About you
As a Design Manager within our Transportation business, you will undertake a key role in delivering our clients’ requirements. Working closely with the Project Manager you will be the controlling mind over the engineering and technical delivery across all aspects. As an individual we would look to you to show experience in leadership, delivery performance, excellent communication skills combined with being a team player. The knowledge, skills and experience we value are varied as we continue to develop diverse teams.
In delivery you should understand your clients’ requirements and the impacts of the success factors of the project, developing a scheduleand delivery plan to ensure success. You’ll provide a proactive risk identification and mitigation environment that allows for innovation and creative delivery. You’ll have a track record of successfully delivering complex multi-disciplinary projects within budget and on schedule, whilst maintaining the highest of safe working cultures within project teams.
Together with the Project Manager you’ll control budgets for projects, escalation points, key milestones and targets including time, cost, quality and safety to ensure that objectives are achieved in line with programme plans.
Key Responsibilities
- Accountable for delivering a safe& sustainable design that supports decarbonisation and improves social value.
- Accountable for integrating the delivery team, design coordination, quality and ensuring the technical solutions meet the scope and technical delivery to programme.
- Responsible for assisting discipline leads and the project management team in managing budget and forecasting.
- Actively listen across all disciplines, both engineering and technical, to make balanced decisions through reasoning and open discussion.
- Champion the consistent use of Jacobs delivery tools/processes which ensure that all parties have an agreed understanding of the project and their part within it and a culture of getting design and delivery right first time.
- Encourage unconventional thinking and drive innovative solutions. - Drive continual improvement of our deliverables by using digital delivery tools, Lessons Learned from other projects, and Clients’ feedback.
- Implement improvement measures and share good practice. - Technically support Business Development opportunities across the UK.
- Help to maintain a highly motivated team with specific attention to safety and well-being.
- Lead in line with our inclusion and diversity policies so that individuals and teams can develop their full potential.
You will preferably have a Bachelors or Masters Degree (or equivalent Degree) with proven design management experience gained across a range of infrastructure projects in a multi-disciplinary environment. It is desirable to be a member of a relevant professional institution with a sound understanding of design management principles and application in a highways or civil engineering environment. You will have the ability to:
Lead and guide others in implementation of relevant standards.
- Undertake Design Manager role on highways projects.
- Experience in the delivery of multi-disciplinary projects where engineering and technical disciplines all had an equal part to play.
- Apply relevant assurance processes when working on civil engineering projects.
- Apply engineering principles to develop innovative, robust and safe design.
- Take account of the priorities of projects, effectively plan, monitor and control the technical delivery of projects to clients.
- Understand the factors affecting motivation of project team members.
- Excellent organisation skills and an ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines.
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