Design & Build - Design Manager

AtkinsRéalis one of the world’s leading providers of engineering professional consulting and support services with offices across Ireland.

We have an opportunity for an experienced Design & Build (DB) Design Manager to join our exciting and fast-moving multidisciplinary team working on infrastructure projects across water, aviation, buildings and energy markets.

As one of Ireland’s leading consultancies, AtkinsRéalis offers a comprehensive service on major projects throughout Ireland and across the globe.  AtkinsRéalis reputation is built on the skills, excellence, and commitment of our people in all aspects of infrastructure consultancy.

The successful candidate will work directly with senior members of the team across Ireland and shall be based in either the Dublin, Cork, Galway, or Dundalk offices, with the option to work remotely within Ireland in a hybrid work environment.

Role Description and Duties:

• Management of multi-disciplined design-build teams to the successful delivery of the project to agreed targets, e.g., programme, budget, and quality.
• Identifying and agreeing project objectivities with the Project Director and developing a strategy for achieving these.
• Identifying, escalating, and managing any matters that could pose a potential contractual/commercial risk to AtkinsRéalis to the Project Director (PD) at the earliest opportunity.
• Setting objectives and defining tasks for the project team (including internal and external agreements), delegating authority and agreeing how risks will be shared (with PD) as necessary.
• Actively managing the project – both technically and financially, in accordance with corporate and business policies, directives, guidance and procedures. Whilst monitoring and reporting performance against programme, technical quality, financial and KPI targets; taking, or advising the PD on the requirements for, any necessary mitigation actions to prevent targets being missed, controlling change and managing effective change control process.
• Leading the project team – building, motivating, maintaining, coaching, guiding and developing the team; including providing regular feedback to all team members and ensuring staff have the necessary H&S training for discharging their design duties and defining line of communication and the responsibilities for co-ordination within the project.
• Facilitating communication, co-ordination, and information flow with the Client and within the project team, including any subcontractors and partners (internal and external).
• With input from the Discipline Leads, agreeing commercial trading arrangements and communication plan for working with other teams, issuing Task Orders to all internal teams and purchase orders to external teams; agreeing resource levels, project personnel and milestones internally (with the project delivery team) and externally (with the Client and other project contributors) and establishing a ‘bottom up’ estimate of project costs.
• Assembling and owning the project delivery programme and delivery plans; providing project reports on a regular basis to convey cost and schedule information (monthly Client report, in a timely manner, as required internally or externally).
• Protecting the commercial interest of AtkinsRéalis, including timely and accurate invoicing and effective credit control for optimal cash flow (with the support of the finance community), comparing revenue with predicted costs and identifying risk allowances, margin and provisions – at project set-up and monthly thereafter, including Earned Value reporting.
• Closing out the project on completion, archiving project documentation, updating market information, ensuring that lessons learnt are captured and disseminated internally and ensuring that a Client Satisfaction survey is initiated.

Candidate Requirements:

• Relevant experience of DB design / project management.
• A Level 8 Honours Degree in Civil Engineering, Project Management or related field.
• Chartered Engineer or equivalent with experience managing design commissions on large infrastructure projects.
• Experience in a design consultancy office managing design teams.
• Experience across a range of building construction projects.
• Excellent interpersonal, organisational and communication skills both verbal and written.
• A hard working and flexible individual, who is a team player, possesses great attention to detail, is reliable, proactive and shows initiative whilst able to keep cool under pressure and when working to often demanding deadlines.
• Ability to manage and motivate a team and demonstrate good leadership qualities.
• Understands and has experience in deploying various forms of construction contract, in particular NEC4.
• Experienced at preparing Scope Definition papers, Project Execution Plans, Risk Registers, Change Control Logs and Client & Stakeholder Management plans.
• Experience of managing design projects to time, cost and quality objectives and familiar with programming and earned value techniques.
• Self-motivated and able to work both independently and within a larger multi-discipline team.
• Familiar with BIM and understands the use of CDE and 3D modelling tools for design and coordination purposes and the associated Information attributes that can be assigned and managed within the Model.
• Working competency in relevant project management and data management software applications.
• A high expectation of performance for themselves and other members of the team.
• Customer focused with excellent client relationship management skills.
• A supportive and encouraging approach to mentoring less experienced members of the team.
• Ability to adapt to different cultures and working environments to build rapport with clients.
• Fluent in spoken and written English.
• The successful candidate shall have the ability to time-manage, set priorities and work to strict deadlines, with an established strategic mindset and organised and methodical style of working.

The position also includes the following benefits:

• Attractive salary
• Professional membership fees
• Comprehensive pension benefits
• Accident and illness cover
• CPD Training & Education
• Flexible working hours and hybrid working (office /home)
• PSRA pension contributions

About Us:

At AtkinsRéalis we put Environment, Sustainability and Health & Safety at the heart of our business strategy. We possess a significant breadth of knowledge and depth of skills and experience for the ultimate benefit of our clients. We build long-term trusted partnerships to create a world where lives are enriched through the implementation of our ideas. Together with our clients, we’re always striving to find better ways to get things done. We are a certified CPD Accredited employer with Engineers Ireland and we were named Engineers Ireland CPD Employer of the year in 2021.

We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop. To help embed inclusion for all, from day one, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures, and ability.