Head of Design & Engineering in Southampton, United Kingdom
Head of Design & Engineering
About the role
You will provide strategic engineering and design management, strong leadership and control of multi-disciplinary teams comprising engineering resources at all levels throughout the Gated Business Lifecycle.
The Head of Design & Engineering is responsible for the development and implementation of design and engineering strategy across the business unit. Key decision maker in the choice of design partner for projects.
What you'll be doing
As a Head of Design & Engineering, you will have the following accountabilities:
Strategic Development of the design management and engineering processes, including design framework and partner relationships. This will include an alignment between the approach to developing methodology and design solutions. To ensure the integration, technical assurance, compliance, health, safety and sustainability of the design and engineering construction to enable compliant ‘Right First Time’ handover for operational service, delivered to programme and budget.
The role provides functional leadership to the design and engineering community across contracts and projects supporting them as necessary in the engineering delivery. Ensuring that the scope of the work is clear and understood and that design produced meets requirements and the engineering solution is on time and on budget and intervening on Contracts where necessary to ensure delivery in line with company or Customer requirements.
Who we're looking for
You will have the following:
- proven experience at a senior level in delivering design services, within a Work Winning environment and Stage 1 of 2-Stage contracts.
- Experience of successfully implementing design strategies and experience of large complex Major Projects is required.
- Leadership skills
- You will know ‘what good looks like’ in bid submissions and work winning
- Hands on experience of delivering efficient design on a project in a timely manner.
- Should have experience of change management and be able to demonstrate success around organisational transformation.
- Good working knowledge of BIM is required.
- Professional membership with the ICE or equivalent is a requirement.
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