Job Description
Job description
Are you passionate about exemplary Healthcare sector Design Management?
Do you have end to end Healthcare sector Design Management experience?
Are you considering what's next for your career?
Then we would love to hear from you!!
Laing O'Rourke has a proven and unparalleled track record of successful delivery in the healthcare sector. We have built 18 hospitals since 2010, delivering world-class facilities for clinical staff and patients, including specialist cancer care facilities. Most recently delivering the Louisa Martindale Building in Brighton, the new Royal Liverpool University Hospital, the Grange University Hospital in Wales, as well as the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, Liverpool, and before that the Cancer Centre at Guy's & St Thomas in London. https://www.laingorourke.com/projects/healthcare/
The Opportunity:
We are looking for an energetic, enthusiastic and people focused Electrically biased Senior Design Manager with healthcare experience to join Laing O'Rourke's Healthcare team supporting our live and pipelined projects in Brighton, Bristol, Calderdale and / or Cambridge. If staying away from home 2 / 3 nights a week we cover expenses for hotels, evening meals and travel.
This Senior Design Manager will lead the delivery of effective design across this single large-scale project. They provide a focus for, and lead the pre-construction phase design processes, liaising with the client, the design team, in-house bid team and the operations team. On live projects, they implement and lead the processes that enable the design to be challenged and interrogated within a collaborative team framework, to enable risks to be reduced.
This Senior Design Manager will be a senior member of the Design Job Family and Technical Function, which is there to ensure technical excellence, assurance and performance across all projects and opportunities from pre-project, early engagement and work winning through to detailed delivery. All our designers are part of our Engineering Enterprise which aims to maximise and realise the potential of design to increase certainty on our projects.
What will the role look like?
• Providing a focus for and lead the pre-construction phase briefing and design processes.
• Leads LOR's design management procedures, providing a functional link between the commercial and construction teams and the designers throughout the project life.
• Implements the processes that enable the design to be challenged and interrogated within a collaborative team framework.
• Implements agreed processes for the production, control and distribution of design information at different project stages.
• Ensures regular progress reporting of the design.
• Ensures design information is thoroughly reviewed: for buildability, safety and maintainability, ‘completeness & compliance' and technical suitability before use.
• Assists the Design Leader in promoting innovation in design management, methodology, processes and practices.
• Assist the Design Leader in promoting the application and adoption of the Company's vision and values in all design management activities.
What skills & experience are we looking for?
• Experience end to end in managing design – from concept to handover.
• First degree in Electrical Engineering / Other appropriate construction related qualification plus design related experience.
• Healthcare sector specialism as well as deep and broad experience managing the design of construction or building services projects.
Don't match all the criteria? We are open and always happy to hear from people with transferable skill sets and a commitment to learning.
Wrong location for you? We have live healthcare projects across the UK plus a huge pipeline of work in the Healthcare sector and would love to expand our talent pools with passionate and technically brilliant people.
About us:
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.
As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.
We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email [email protected]
#LI-KW1
Are you passionate about exemplary Healthcare sector Design Management?
Do you have end to end Healthcare sector Design Management experience?
Are you considering what's next for your career?
Then we would love to hear from you!!
Laing O'Rourke has a proven and unparalleled track record of successful delivery in the healthcare sector. We have built 18 hospitals since 2010, delivering world-class facilities for clinical staff and patients, including specialist cancer care facilities. Most recently delivering the Louisa Martindale Building in Brighton, the new Royal Liverpool University Hospital, the Grange University Hospital in Wales, as well as the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, Liverpool, and before that the Cancer Centre at Guy's & St Thomas in London. https://www.laingorourke.com/projects/healthcare/
The Opportunity:
We are looking for an energetic, enthusiastic and people focused Electrically biased Senior Design Manager with healthcare experience to join Laing O'Rourke's Healthcare team supporting our live and pipelined projects in Brighton, Bristol, Calderdale and / or Cambridge. If staying away from home 2 / 3 nights a week we cover expenses for hotels, evening meals and travel.
This Senior Design Manager will lead the delivery of effective design across this single large-scale project. They provide a focus for, and lead the pre-construction phase design processes, liaising with the client, the design team, in-house bid team and the operations team. On live projects, they implement and lead the processes that enable the design to be challenged and interrogated within a collaborative team framework, to enable risks to be reduced.
This Senior Design Manager will be a senior member of the Design Job Family and Technical Function, which is there to ensure technical excellence, assurance and performance across all projects and opportunities from pre-project, early engagement and work winning through to detailed delivery. All our designers are part of our Engineering Enterprise which aims to maximise and realise the potential of design to increase certainty on our projects.
What will the role look like?
• Providing a focus for and lead the pre-construction phase briefing and design processes.
• Leads LOR's design management procedures, providing a functional link between the commercial and construction teams and the designers throughout the project life.
• Implements the processes that enable the design to be challenged and interrogated within a collaborative team framework.
• Implements agreed processes for the production, control and distribution of design information at different project stages.
• Ensures regular progress reporting of the design.
• Ensures design information is thoroughly reviewed: for buildability, safety and maintainability, ‘completeness & compliance' and technical suitability before use.
• Assists the Design Leader in promoting innovation in design management, methodology, processes and practices.
• Assist the Design Leader in promoting the application and adoption of the Company's vision and values in all design management activities.
What skills & experience are we looking for?
• Experience end to end in managing design – from concept to handover.
• First degree in Electrical Engineering / Other appropriate construction related qualification plus design related experience.
• Healthcare sector specialism as well as deep and broad experience managing the design of construction or building services projects.
Don't match all the criteria? We are open and always happy to hear from people with transferable skill sets and a commitment to learning.
Wrong location for you? We have live healthcare projects across the UK plus a huge pipeline of work in the Healthcare sector and would love to expand our talent pools with passionate and technically brilliant people.
About us:
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.
As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.
We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email [email protected]
#LI-KW1
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Senior Design Manager | Electrical | Healthcare position is now open for candidates interested in the Health Jobs sector. This role in Brighton offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Health Jobs is a plus.
