Senior Design Manager
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Job Description
Start here. Grow here.
Here’s what you’ll do:
The job holder is expected to apply the following responsibilities on Data Centre projects.
Managing the Design Process
- Lead Design Management projects across the UK and Internationally.
- Management of AECOM financial process and invoicing.
- Review of work outputs from team prior to issue to ensure quality and compliance with contractual obligations.
Managing Sub-consultants
- Prepare responsibility matrix to identify sub-consultant responsibility for each area of scope.
- Draft and distribute sub-consultant back-to-back contracts so that all scope is accounted for.
- Manage updates to sub-consultant contracts and prepare final documents.
- Prepare and update cash flow projections.
- Establish procedures for invoice submission for sub-consultants and monitor.
- Track and report on the progress of all sub-consultant invoices and prepare a monthly Financial Report.
Establishment and Implementation of Design Management Procedures including:-
Roles and Responsibilities/Scope Delineation
- Preparing design programmes, monitoring and reporting progress
- Managing Deliverables/outputs
- Managing Design Quality
- Managing Design Budgets/Change
- Managing Approvals
- Organising Project Meetings & Design Workshops
- Managing Design Coordination
Assist in the Management of the Design Management Team
- Achieve AECOM PM accreditation, take active role in management of design projects in accordance with AECOM financial systems and processes.
- Lead/Support Design Management projects across the UK and Internationally as appropriate.
- Assist in the development of junior Design Management team members through mentoring, training and reviews. • Review work outputs from junior Design Management team members prior to issue to ensure quality and compliance with contractual obligations.
- Support the Design Management team Leadership as required.
If you're passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you. Join our team, where we don't just construct infrastructure but also uplift communities and enhance lives. Why not give our AECOM page on LinkedIn a follow to stay updated on the impactful projects we're working on and see firsthand the difference we're making in the industry!
Qualifications
Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?
Here’s what we’re looking for:
The jobholder will be expected to display a range of competencies, both behavioural and technical in undertaking the role. These are included in the Design Management Induction Plan and include areas such as:
- Understanding of the design process.
- Project and design programming skills.
- Experience in development and implementation of design management tools and procedures.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Commercial awareness of projects.
- Construction knowledge/experience.
- Proficiency in MS Project/Excel/InDesign.
Here’s the relevant experience which would be preferable:
Preferably the jobholder is expected to have experience in the following sector or similar:
- Data Centres
Additional Information
About AECOM
AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.
Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity
You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.
You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.
AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.
Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [email protected] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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