Design Delivery Manager

The opportunity

Project: Building a fleet of safe, reliable nuclear power stations in the UK to secure a low-carbon energy future. The project is a diverse and collaborative organisation committed to engaging stakeholders, obtaining development consent and preparing for the construction of the power station.

With the construction of the recent project successfully underway, the client is now developing plans to build a further power station in the east of England. Mace has been supporting the client on the development of the nuclear project since 2011 and continues to act as a key framework supplier under a variety of workstreams.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Defining the requirements and scope of specific packages of design work and ensure closure of requirements through to commissioning and handover.

• Championing ‘safe by design’ with the design supply chain, to maximise the opportunity to improve the health, safety and wellbeing of all those engaged in and impacted by the project.

• Operating within the processes and procedures of the civils alliance.

• Managing and reporting of design delivery performance for time, cost, quality and other performance objectives as required from the supply chain, including the application of robust change management.

• Interfacing with all internal NNB/civils pre-alliance functions to ensure project and statutory requirements are understood and implemented and recognised in the design.

• Ensuring that third party requirements and approvals required during the design stage are discharged appropriately.

• Engaging with other civils alliance functions including commercial, procurement, project controls, construction delivery to ensure that technical issues are suitably understood and recognised.

• Holding regular collaborative meetings with the designers and wider teams to: review and share problems and issues, promoting innovative thinking, to capture lessons learnt / best practice, to provide technical support and to ensure consistency of design.

• Challenging the designers’ proposals with a view to de-risking technical solutions, to promote and facilitate emergence of value engineering solutions, leading to reductions of quantities, costs and optimisation of the construction programme.

• Coordinating the inputs and interfaces of the technical assurance team to ensure a verified, validated and configured design.

About you

You have a clear understanding of design and engineering interfaces with: construction teams, commissioning teams, supply chain and third parties with in depth understanding of project scheduling, commercial arrangements and budget control.

You are digitally savvy, can build lasting client relationships and lead strong, motivated teams. You will have a construction or project management background and be hungry to grow your career and enjoy the opportunities Mace has to offer.