Design Manager

Job Description
Are you ready to be part of a team that delivers top-notch mechanical, electrical, and telecommunication engineering solutions? Look no further than VVB, where expertise and experience converge to create sustainable solutions across Rail, Highways, Power, and Tunnels.
At VVB, we are more than just engineers - we are collaborators, innovators, and stewards of our environment. Our projects are guided by our CORE values:
C- Care & Collaboration
O- Opportunity & Ownership
R- Responsibility & Respect
E - Excellence & End Result Focus
Join us in shaping the future of infrastructure while upholding these values at every turn. Explore more about who we are at www.vvb-eng.com
What We Offer:
Competitive salaries with yearly appraisals
Travel expenses covered for assignments outside your base location
Perkbox membership for 24/7 access to rewards, benefits, discounts, and wellbeing tools
Life Assurance and Private Medical Insurance schemes provided by leading providers
Generous pension scheme
25 days holiday plus bank holidays (this includes a Christmas shutdown)
What we are recruiting for: Design Manager
Join VVB as a Design Manager, leading the charge in supervising design and engineering activities across medium to larger-scale projects within Power, Utilities, and Infrastructure sectors. Electrically, you'll be tackling projects up to 33kV voltage level. Your role will encompass planning and directing design assignments, ensuring seamless coordination and execution.
As a Design Manager, you'll interpret, organise, and oversee design tasks while managing a talented group of Design Engineers within VVB and our supply chain. Your expertise will be pivotal in supporting tendering, procurement, and construction activities.
Ready to take your career to new heights? Apply now and be part of our dynamic team at VVB!
Key Responsibilities:
Supervise design and engineering activities across multiple disciplines on projects, overseeing a team of engineers, Design Managers, lead engineers, specialists, BIM coordinators, and CAD draughtsmen.
Plan, develop, coordinate, and review engineering and design work within the project or assignment, ensuring compliance with sector business unit standards.
Manage design registers, meeting minutes, and drawing registers, adhering to VVB and project requirements.
Facilitate formal communication processes such as RFI's, TQ's, EWN's, and MAR's.
Ensure design risk assessments align with installation parameters and prepare Design Management Plan.
Maintain communication with Client representatives, Suppliers, Construction Managers, and Consultants/Contractors to ensure project coordination and compliance.
Obtain Client approval on project phases as necessary and ensure lead discipline design engineers adhere to VVB's Engineering and Design Management procedures.
Collaborate with the Commercial Discipline to track design changes and variances.
Key Requirements:
Apply technical skills to manage Engineering and Design deliverables across multiple projects, integrating with other functions.
Demonstrate knowledge of engineering and design processes and associated compliance requirements.
Proficient in Low and High Voltage (up to 33kV) power distribution system design and engineering, including HVAC support in Power, Utilities, and Infrastructure sectors.
Utilise 2-D and 3-D Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools such as BIM for project coordination.
Have exposure to BIM and design modelling standards.
Possess substantial experience in a 'Design Manager role' within Power, Utilities, and Infrastructure Design and Engineering projects.
Hold a recognised degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering (or equivalent).
This contracted location will be a Project Location in London. You will be required to travel to other sites and offices as and when required.
This role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to the success of our projects while honing your skills in a collaborative environment. If you are ready to take the next step in your career, apply now and become part of the VVB family!
Note: This job profile may be subject to future amendments following appropriate discussion.
VVB values the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all prospective and current employees with dignity regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. All employees must demonstrate commitment and enthusiasm in promoting the principles of equality in employment and service delivery.
NO EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES.