Barhale has a significant pipeline of work across the water sector due to the projected growth throughout AMP8, alongside a wider portfolio of projects across our Southern Region. As we look to maximise efficiencies throughout projects’ lifecycle, we’re recruiting for a Design Coordinator to be based in our Southern Region.
The Role
The Design Coordinator will be responsible for coordinating designs and supporting the Design Manager in the delivery of designs and technical solutions. Their contributions will help to make sure design aspects of projects are completed on time and on cost, ensuring safety and quality through design and achieving outcomes.
The role includes aspects of design management and looking at technical solutions as well as supervising the inputs of various consultants and disciplines including environmental, archaeological and planning. The Design Coordinator will also work closely with our construction teams to ensure designs meet requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate design in line with the budget and programme, ensuring compliance with the project requirements, standards and specifications.
- Adhere to CDM regulations including supporting the Design Manager to discharge Principal Designer duties.
- Promote safety, buildability, environmental best practice and sustainability through design.
- Help to produce design plans and briefs.
- Coordinate external design consultants.
- Collaborate with other internal disciplines: other technical, operational, maintenance, and strategic stakeholders, and design coordinators.
- Coordinate construction and design teams to ensure site investigations and surveys meet project requirements, that design outputs are buildable and drive efficiency in construction, and that technical queries are addressed.
- Provide input to construction planning activities such as consents and stakeholder management.
- Coordinate and contribute to internal and external assurance, governance and review processes, including review and production of relevant deliverables.
- Have awareness of commercial arrangements within area of responsibility.
- Identify, record and manage design change, risk and opportunity.
- Ensure quality in design to be ‘right first time’.
- Coordinate and support preparation of handover documentation.
Caring and investing in you
Our values have been embedded at Barhale for over 40 years and they are our guiding principle regarding how we care and invest in people. Our values are our commitment to being a people-centric company.
As a Gold Investors in People company and a Sunday Times 100 Best Company to Work For, we are committed to investing in people. We are passionate about creating a working environment where people are supported throughout their careers, where people can enjoy security and be part of a company that cares about them.
From the moment you join us, your wellbeing and career aspirations will be supported by;
- Competitive salary
- Company pension
- Life assurance
- Private medical
- 25 days annual leave in addition to 8 public bank holidays and loyalty days
- 8 hours volunteering
- Employee assistance programme to support your mental, physiological and financial wellbeing
- Flexible benefits via salary sacrifice
- Company car/green car scheme/car allowance/van (dependent on position)
- Leadership and management training and coaching
- Regular line management engagement and appraisal to support your career progression
- Development supported by internal and externally delivered training
- Flexible working arrangements
- Annual salary review
- Continuous service awards
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About Barhale
Barhale is a business founded on family values having been established by our Chairman, Dennis Curran in 1980. We are one of the largest privately owned civil engineering and infrastructure specialists in the UK, with over 40 years of experience in providing design, civil engineering and maintenance services working across multiple sectors including:
- Water
- Transport
- Built environment
- Energy
We operate as a tier one partner for blue chip, regulated and private clients, working as part of large frameworks, joint ventures and alliances, as well as on individual standalone projects developing long-term relationships based on delivering to the Barhale values which have been integral to our business since their inception in 1985.
Our direct delivery model is at the core of everything we do as we believe that people are our greatest asset. Therefore, we robustly source, train and retain all our own frontline delivery teams as well as management and support services. We employ over 1,200 employees nationwide.
We possess a range of specialist skills to support our civil engineering and infrastructure activities including:
- Tunnelling
- MEICA
- Temporary and permanent design
- Steel-fabrication
- Signs (design and fabrication)
- Health & safety equipment and products including PPE
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Why join Barhale?
- As Gold Investors in People, we are committed to a high standard of people practices, creating an inclusive environment and ensuring cultural alignment to business strategy, ethos and philosophies.
- Job security, long-term secured work through various frameworks and large infrastructure schemes
- Broad range of civil engineering and mechanical and electrical schemes across some of the UK’s largest infrastructure projects and clients
- Strong career progression as demonstrated by our track record in promoting from within as we believe this is a key driver to our success