Design Coordinator
The Role:
As part of the Engineering function based in our Southern Region, the Design Coordinator will be responsible for coordinating design aspects throughout the project lifecycle. The Design Coordinator will support the Design Manager in overseeing the delivery of the design and technical solutions for our various projects across a number of clients. Their contributions will help to make sure this aspect of the project is completed on program and on cost, ensuring safety and quality through design, and achievement of outcomes.
The role includes aspects of design management and looking at technical solutions as well as supervising the inputs of various consultants and disciplines including environmental, archaeological and planning. You will also work closely with our construction teams to ensure designs meet requirements.
The Design Coordinator will have the opportunity to work on Water and Wastewater schemes with various clients across our Southern Region.
Please be aware that this role covers various projects in London within M25 as well as the Thames Valley Region (Reading, Oxford, and Aylesbury).
Key Responsibilities:
- Coordinate design in line with the budget and programme, ensuring compliance with the project requirements, standards and specifications.
- Adhering to CDM regulations including supporting the Design Manager to discharge Principal Designer duties.
- Promotion of safety, buildability, environmental best practice, and sustainability, through design.
- Help to produce design plans and briefs.
- Coordinate external design consultants.
- Collaboration with other internal disciplines, other technical, operational, maintenance, and strategic stakeholders, and design coordinators.
- Coordinate between the construction and design team to ensure site investigations and surveys meet project requirements, that design outputs are buildable and drive efficiency in construction, and that technical queries are addressed.
- Provide input to construction planning activities such as consents and stakeholder management.
- Coordinate and contribute to internal and external assurance, governance and review processes, including review and production of relevant deliverables.
- Have awareness of commercial arrangements within area of responsibility.
- Identify, record and manage design change, risk and opportunity.
- Ensure quality in design to be ‘right first time’.
- Coordinate and support preparation of handover documentation.
Audit and Governance:
- To operate in an open and even-handed manner with all personnel across the business.
- Treat all who we interact with, with courtesy and respect, treating everyone equally and embracing differences.
- To proactively contribute to teamwork and cross-functional working.
- To listen to each other and share knowledge enabling us to willingly combine expertise across the business and with our clients and supply chain.
- Behaving with integrity and always demonstrating a professional image.
- To take personal responsibility & accountability for actions, constantly striving to improve and exceed expectations ensuring safety and quality are never compromised.
Key Relationships:
- Designers & Engineers
- Project Managers
- Site Agents and Site team
- Regional HSEQ team
- Quality and Technical Assurance Manager
- Communication team
- Stakeholder Team
Person Specification:
The successful candidate is likely to meet the following criteria:
Essential
- Considerable experience in water and wastewater infrastructure
- Temporary Works: Understanding of what encompasses Temporary Works and the supporting engineering, understanding of the types of temporary works designs available and what responsibilities the associated roles (designer/coordinator/contractor) have, and engagement of internal and external temporary works designers
- Degree/HNC qualified, or equivalent, in Civil Engineering (or working towards through apprenticeship or similar)
- Awareness of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and common data environments
- Proficient in using Microsoft including Excel, Word and PowerPoint
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to liaise effectively with both clients and staff
- Time management, project design management
- Self-driven and results-oriented with a positive outlook
Benefits:
As well as offering a competitive salary, remuneration for this role includes a range of benefits
- 5% Company pension contribution
- Life Assurance at 2 x notional salary
- Single person’s private medical cover
- Permanent Health Cover
- Company Profit Share Scheme
- Company car / or car allowance (Dependent on position)
- Career Development and ongoing training
- Staff Referral Scheme
- 25 days annual leave with additional loyalty days (Full-Time equivalent)
- Volunteering Scheme
- Environmental and Social Value initiatives
About Barhale:
Barhale is one of the largest privately-owned civil engineering and infrastructure specialists with 40 years of experience working UK-wide across the water, transport, built environment and energy sectors. Founded by our Chairman, Dennis Curran in 1980, the group was originally set up as a specialist tunnelling contractor. While we retain our tunnelling roots, repeated success in several construction industry sectors has enabled us to expand our skillset and become one of the largest privately-owned infrastructure specialists in the UK.
What we do
We provide design, construction, and maintenance services to the following sectors.
- Water
- Transport
- Energy
- Built Environment
We also possess a range of specialist skills to support our civil engineering and infrastructure activities including
- Tunnelling
- MEICA capabilities
- In-house design
- A steel-fabrication and supply subsidiary (BCS Group)
Who we are?
Barhale operates as a tier-1 partner for blue-chip, regulated, and private clients. We work as part of large frameworks, joint ventures, and alliances and on individual projects developing long-standing relationships based on Trust, Integrity, and Pride.
Our People
We employ a direct workforce of over 1,000 employees nationwide. We recognise that our business is only as good as the people we employ, which is why we value them so highly and invest in regular training and development, utilising our dedicated training facility in Walsall.
Our commitment to career progression, personal development, innovation, collaborative working, diversity and Inclusion, health and wellbeing and work-life balance is what makes us a Gold Investors in People Company.
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