Design Manager - Transmission & Distribution
- Oversee engineering design projects across the UK & Ireland, working closely with Discipline Leads, Project Managers, and Directors to build project teams from our global Enterprise Capability offices as needed.
- Act as Technical Project Manager for multi-disciplinary design projects, overseeing various disciplines, including substation primary, cables, protection & control, civils, overhead lines, and environmental scopes.
- You will have the opportunity to be involved in large programmes of work like GGP projects.
- Oversee the entire lifecycle of design projects, from concept to completion, ensuring alignment with industry best practices.
- Manage various project phases, including concept, FEED, environmental assessments, permitting, consenting, planning, cost estimation, detailed engineering.
- Ensure projects meet safety, health, environmental, sustainability, and quality standards.
- Ensure design submissions comply with codes, standards, and quality requirements.
- Ensure adherence to AECOM and client design management processes while leading project and client meetings as needed.
- Provide regular updates on project progress, costs, schedules, procurement, safety, environmental concerns, and design challenges.
- Manage projects or project components, including resource allocation, subcontractor coordination, design integrity, and client feedback
- Support proposal preparation, lead presentations, and participate in contract negotiations.
- Foster a "Safety by Design" culture while maintaining high technical standards by staying informed on industry best practices and client standards to improve safety, constructability, and asset operability.
- Represent AECOM with professionalism and integrity, adhering to ethical standards and the Code of Conduct.
- Provide mentorship, technical guidance, and professional development support to team members.
- Checking and review engineering deliverables such as complex designs, reports, proposals, presentations, and drawing packages.
- Leading the delivery of projects and the development of leading-edge technical skills and their practical application, in ways that add value to AECOM and our clients.
- Perform internal reviews and quality checks of engineering drawings and calculations.
- Identify opportunities for design optimization and cost efficiencies.
- Pursue new opportunities, defining scope, schedule, budget, and exclusions. At AECOM, you'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.
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