Senior Design Lead

7 days ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom RED Engineering Design Full time £5
Job Description

Company Overview

RED Engineering Design is a leading international consultancy specializing in low energy design and technical expertise. Our mission is to provide exceptional design solutions to clients while enabling the world's digital infrastructure and developing sustainable built environments.

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Design Manager to join our London office. As a key member of our design team, you will be responsible for providing high-quality client-facing relationships, internal management, team leadership, and project delivery while maintaining the highest professional standards.

Key Responsibilities

  • Manage and maintain high-quality client-facing relationships and internal management
  • Lead and manage project teams, ensuring efficient project, team, and external supplier/sub-consultant management
  • Ensure compliance with company policies and scope of contract
  • Proactively take ownership of agreed actions, including adherence to technical and project peer and stakeholder review milestones
  • Manage, mentor, and lead project teams
  • Support project delivery, team performance, and business development
  • Ensure project performance and profitability in line with business objectives
  • Contribute to commercial and business planning processes
  • Support and conduct management and performance reviews for direct reports
  • Conduct project and contract reviews to ensure quality and deliver against contractual obligations
  • Implement and adhere to programme, project, and design procedures and protocols
  • Support the company's ethos and brand reputation, ensuring its core values of ethics, integrity, collaboration, and innovation are maintained and reflected in daily work
  • Manage and issue invoices, prepare and update WiP and cash flow projections
  • Draft and distribute sub-consultant back-to-back contracts in line with contract scope
  • Manage information change and monitoring of deliverables from sub-consultants to ensure submittals align with agreed scope of works
  • Manage consultation with statutory bodies and authorities, including pre-application consultation, planning the engagement process, ensuring integration into the integrated design programme, monitoring compliance, and tracking approvals
  • Produce an integrated design schedule following liaison with all Design Team members and including key milestones laid out by the Client
  • Monitor design progress and identify areas of risk/concern that are approaching
  • Identify design deliverables, who they will be prepared by, and when they need to be delivered
  • Produce project reports and tracking documents to the client's requirements, manage input from others
  • Chair Project, Programme, and Design Team meetings where required
  • Support the delivery of projects in accordance with the expectations of the RED Project Delivery Process from a Project Management, Financial Management, QA/QC, and Technical Review perspective

Requirements

  • Chartered Engineer (CEng) or Chartered Project Professional (ChPP) status
  • Experience in development and implementation of design management tools and procedures
  • Proven experience in excess of 5 years, working alongside Design Teams with a solid understanding and empathy of the design process
  • Enthusiastic, driven, and dynamic self-starter with career progression aspirations
  • Ability to mentor and develop and team to achieve project and business goals
  • Ability to work well either alone or as part of a team under own initiative
  • Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the design process
  • Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite (Word/Excel Outlook/PowerPoint)
  • Proficient in the use of Microsoft Project or similar Project Programming Tools
  • Ability to use it-based calculation and spreadsheet software
  • Proven project and design programming skills
  • Proven ability to deliver high-value projects with fees up to £5m in value
  • Flexible and willing to travel regularly to service international projects and customers
  • Commercial and financial awareness and management of projects and fees

Benefits

  • 23 days annual leave rising to 28 days annual leave over 5 years' service
  • Holiday purchase and buy-back scheme
  • Hybrid Working
  • Contributory company pension scheme
  • Healthcare Scheme via salary sacrifice (Company funded cover is dependant on level)
  • Non-contractual bonus awards
  • Training sponsorship


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