Design Manager

Reading, England, United Kingdom

1/7/2025

Job Description

Costain are working with Thames Water on a variety of water and wastewater projects and have fantastic opportunities for individuals to join our growing AMP7 design team, working predominantly across the Thames Valley and Thames South regions. There is a mix of projects ranging from smaller capital maintenance to large civil new build schemes.

Responsibilities

• Delivering engineering solutions at a project / framework level from initial definition of need through optioneering, solution development, detail design and construction support.
• To lead a team of discipline design engineers in the development of wastewater technical solutions from initial need statement through optioneering, solution development, value engineering, detail design and construction support.
• Ensure affordable design solutions are developed within project budget and solution risk is appropriately managed and communicated throughout the solution development process.
• Establish collaborative working relationships with the client, design teams, construction staff and supply chain representatives to promote buildability and supply chain efficiency in design outputs.
• Ensure sustainable design solutions completed in accordance with CDM Regulations
• Provide design solutions that meet all the requirements of the programme’s systems and governance procedures
• Agree design budgets, monitor performance against the budget and provide forecast costs to completion for individual projects
• Record, monitor and control design changes in order to maximise cost efficiency
• Establish and agree design costs and programme timescales with the Programme Manager
• Organise the work required and document the Design Management Plan / Project Execution Plan
• Deliver the design stage outputs of each project within the agreed timescale and budget
  
  

Qualifications

• Academically qualified design engineer.
• Ideally chartered.
• Experience of managing design quality control processes.
• Able to collaborate and work effectively within a multidiscipline and diverse team.
• Ability to successfully deliver design and tenders to program, budget and quality requirements.
• Proactive approach and growth mindset, with an ability to adapt to changing scenarios.
• Understanding of responsibilities under CDM.
  
  

About Us

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.