Design Lead

4 months ago

Preston, United Kingdom Eric Wright Group Limited Full time

The Eric Wright Group has a fantastic history. From our beginnings in construction to an award winning group of companies, our reputation is built on our Chairman's founding principles of a company that must be profitable, ethical and farsighted, as a result we have people, community and social value at our heart. Eric Wright Water Ltd is a multi-disciplinary engineering and construction company working in the water and wastewater industry. Our experienced project management and in-house operational teams work with our clients to provide a professional service. Our capabilities allow us to deliver solutions across the civil and MEICA spectrum. We operate framework contracts with a number of the key UK water companies. Our delivery model provides customer service and value to our clients.

Eric Wright Water aims to be the leader in our field, delivering excellence in engineering and construction within the water industry. We are committed to building long term working relationships with both our clients and suppliers and do this in the spirit of the ‘Eric Wright’ ethos of working in an honest, non-adversarial and collaborative manner. Our approach to project delivery is fully aligned to that of our clients in terms of Health and Safety and Environmental management; ‘If I cannot do it safely, I will not do it’. Our clients benefit from our ability to provide a ‘one-stop-shop’ whereby we offer a comprehensive range of service covering project asset design, construction, installation, commissioning and handover, through to ongoing maintenance and management.

**The role**

We have a rare and exciting opportunity for a Design Lead to join our team. You will be responsible for managing internal and external Design Package deliverables with a multi-discipline engineering team (MEICA & Civil). You will manage the tender and detailed design processes ensuring technical governance of project outputs in accordance with CDM requirements. You will ensure all technical deliverables are produced on time and to the satisfaction of the client/project manager and are consistent with engineering standards and best practice including CDM and safety standards. This is an essential to role to our business, which will enable our success in maintaining our highly skilled, competent, and motivated colleagues.

Your main duties and responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

- Assist the project planner in developing and keeping up to date the detailed design management project programme
- Develop and maintain the design deliverables plan in collaboration with the project delivery team including all technical upstream and downstream delivery requirements
- Supply chain management when developing the design including ensuring supplier tenders are checked for compliance and engineering correctness
- Manage resources to ensure that deliverables are delivered in line with project programme
- Development of scheme tender designs and assist with estimating to ensure that Tender deadlines are met
- Manage design inputs and outputs upstream including TQ/RFI register
- Liaise with clients to ensure design considerations are understood in line with CDM requirements
- Attend/Facilitate all Hazard studies and ensure all competencies are present during these processes so the robust, diverse design decisions are made with the correct people present
- Manage design risk register and update key technical risks as they arise
- Ensure designs are delivered putting safety first and that H&S and CDM risks are documented and understood
- Keep up to date as regards engineering standards, systems and procedures including Client Specifications, British standards, codes and best practices
- Provide regular updates to commercial team, project manager and client technical team
- Prepare downstream technical specifications and particular specifications to allow supplier engagement
- Provide technical governance to supply chain and align this with client requirements
- Carry out any reasonable tasks, activities or requirements as instructed by the Design Manager
- Provide engineering authority and instruction to members of the team
- Develop engineering systems and procedures as necessary to improve department function and efficiency
- Complete technical tasks as required to meet the design management plan within area of expertise or ensure this is done by suitably experienced resource in line with the necessary deliverables where other engineering skills are required
- Follow company-engineering standards, systems and procedures
- Assess competency of supply chain, internal and external resources to ensure competency and safe design development against scheme requirements including relevant standards of best practice
- Manage both internal and external resources

**About you**

**In return we offer**

**Competitive Salary**

**Company car / car allowance scheme** - we are working towards 100% hybrid / electric vehicles.**

**Enhanced annu

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