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’ ECI phase we’re recruiting for an experienced Design Manager to be based in our St Albans office.
The Role
The Design Manager will lead design consultants and multi-discipline engineering teams to deliver design solutions to schedule and budget. It will also be crucial that the Design Manager supports the project delivery teams by providing concept, basic and detailed design solutions based on client and site-specific requirements for clean water, wastewater and biosolids treatment solutions, pipelines, trunk mains, sewers pumping stations and networks.
Key Responsibilities
- Taking ownership and accountability for the technical appropriateness of solutions delivered throughout project life cycles.
- Ensuring design work is correct and complies with the customer and statutory standards, regulations, and specifications.
- Managing the agreed contract with external design consultants ensuring that duties are discharged under the contract and if not, that appropriate action is taken.
- Managing the development and delivery of appropriate, robust, reliable, operable, and maintainable asset designs that meet the project objectives.
- Managing multi-discipline teams of Barhale engineers, consultants, and partner companies in the production of project solutions to the required level of design.
- Producing and managing project engineering budgets and schedules for review by the head of engineering before submission to the Project Manager.
- Implementing change control processes to track and manage the development of the Engineering element of a project to ensure all budgetary, programme and scope changes are correctly managed.
- Ensuring that all engineering outputs provided are following Health and Safety Legislation, documented Business Processes, Quality Management Systems & best practices.
- Evaluating designs and solutions.
- Understanding of Temporary Works and the supporting engineering, understanding of the types of temporary works designs available
Audit and Governance:
- Ensuring the Barhale Code of Conduct is thoroughly understood, adhered to, and promoted across the business to ensure safe, compliant, and consistent working practices.
- Operating in an open and even-handed manner with all personnel across the business.
- Encouraging all colleagues to achieve maximum potential.
- Proactively contributing to teamwork and cross-functional working.
- Sharing knowledge to help combine expertise across the business and with our clients and supply chain.
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
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