Senior Structural Design Manager

This role is to work as part of a team to support the delivery of projects with a focus on structural design.

• Key Responsibilities:
• Prepare Feasibility Study Reports: Meet brief requirements in the agreed format and review with the project lead.
• Design Specification: Work with the design team to assemble a specification compliant with the client's requirements, agree its format and content, and monitor and review its preparation ensuring delivery by the due date.
• Scope of Works: Agree and monitor scope of works with the project lead.
• Building Requirements: Clearly define building requirements and purpose of use with the project team to allow detailed design.
• Detailed Design: Carry out detailed design to standard ensuring technical review and sign off by the project lead, including complex calculations and co-ordination issues.
• Calculation Review: Review and monitor the production of calculations including technical reviews, and sign off.
• Project Costing: Ensure that information for project costing preparation is completed in requisite detail and to deadlines, and keep the project team informed regarding design progress through explanation of design decisions.
• Tender Documents: Provide documentary information via the project team to assist in the preparation of tender documents, ensuring that information for tender preparation is completed in requisite detail and to deadlines.
• Project Contracts: Co-ordinate project contracts documents (drawings and specifications) and reviews input from team members.
• Day-to-Day Queries: Deal with the day-to-day queries from the project team, ensuring that relevant information is available on time for construction activity.
• Variance Reporting: Report to the project team any variance between the works constructed and the design intent.
• Project Management: Project manage commissions from the project team, using applicable project management tools.
• Design Process: Lead the design process and encourage the rest of the team to deliver appropriate and cost-effective solutions to the agreed programme.
• Document Control: Follow in full the document control, archiving, and QA processes relevant to project work, ensuring drawings, specifications, reports, and correspondence are issued, and filed in an appropriate manner.
• Technical Competence: Raise the level of technical competence within the teams.
• Delivery and Quality Measurement: Implement delivery and quality measurement processes.
• Technical Excellence: Promote technical excellence in all our projects.
• Technical Reviews: Undertake technical reviews and contribute to the concept design.
• Process Improvement: Provide continuous feedback to the project lead on the effectiveness of the protocols and processes in place with a view to continuous improvement.
• Communication: Develop positive professional relationships with the project team, communicating openly about project progress.
• Team Meetings: Participate in team meetings, disseminate information within the team, and communicate with other teams.
• Risk Management: Identify and act on, or refer, potential risk issues and follow in full the company commercial and contracting processes.
• Task Management: Manage delegated tasks to ensure that deadlines are met and flag resourcing concerns to team leader.
• Additional Fees: Identify and flag additional fees / scope agreed to the project lead.
• Timesheet Completion: Complete timesheets accurately ahead of weekly deadlines.

Essential Skills and Qualifications:

Mandatory Skills:

• The applicant will have proven experience in structural design with significant experience in a similar role or demonstration of a good track record.
• Good presentation skills are also required.
• Must be fully conversant with technical structural software, such as RAM, CSC, ETABS, and SAFE.
• A sound understanding of Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and Project is essential.
• Must be fluent in English with an excellent understanding of technical terminology.

Desirable Skills:

• Demonstrate good management, communication, and technical skills and be capable of working both within the team and independently, as dictated by workload.

Qualifications:

• The applicant should ideally have obtained Chartered Engineer status or equivalent, possess a degree in Civil or Structural Engineering, and possess membership to an accredited engineering body.