Position Summary:
We are looking a talented Design Lead with strong water/wastewater sector design experience to join our team. Your role as a Design Lead will be to work collaboratively with a Contracts Manager and Quantity Surveyor to deliver the design for multiple projects, or a single large project.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the delivery of multi-disciplinary design for either water, or wastewater infrastructure projects.
- Undertake line management for multiple staff, including being responsible for their welfare and development.
- Deliver detailed design to meet the construction needs and client acceptance.
- Provide direction and oversight of project control processes, with an emphasis on planning and monitoring performance, to achieve time and cost requirements, minimise risk, and ensure the output complies with the required standards and quality requirements.
- Have strong technical skills to lead the development of affordable and low carbon solutions, including managing risk.
- Provide clear and visible leadership to your project design team, including those working remotely from yourself.
- Drive an excellence culture in your team including supporting the Design Manager to recruit and address competency gaps.
- Represent MMB in technical meetings with the client to achieve acceptances.
- Continually develop and challenge project delivery to improve our performance and provide positive challenges to your team to innovate and arrive at value driven designs.
- Develop and lead your design team to successfully deliver projects and create a positive environment where staff are engaged and able to reach their potential.
- Form collaborative relationships with the Contracts Manager and Quantity Surveyor, and balance the competing tensions of time, cost and quality, to successfully deliver outcomes to our clients.
Required Education & Experience:
- Positively engage with our clients to further develop relationships, influence and enhance our reputation, as well as seeking new opportunities.
- Contribute to achieving high internal and client KPI scores