Design Project Manager

Our client is looking for a Design Project Manager to lead and coordinate the design delivery of major Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) and substation projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the delivery of all design activities across BESS and substation projects.
• Take responsibility for coordinating the design team from project award through to delivery.
• Coordinate civil and electrical design disciplines, ensuring that designs and interfaces are properly integrated.
• Coordinate design activities with the procurement process, ensuring equipment, specifications and design requirements align.
• Manage the delivery of all project design deliverables in accordance with the agreed programme.
• Develop, implement and maintain the Design Management Plan.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, ensuring responsibilities, interfaces and deliverables are clearly understood.
• Manage design-related project costs and monitor performance against budget.
• Identify and manage design risks, technical interfaces and potential issues before they impact delivery.
• Work closely with internal teams, clients, suppliers and other project stakeholders.
• Provide clear communication between technical teams and wider project stakeholders.
• Lead meetings and discussions, ensuring complex technical issues are clearly understood and resolved.
• Maintain oversight of the overall design programme and ensure key milestones are achieved.
• Support the successful execution and delivery of projects through to completion and, where applicable, energisation/grid connection.

About You

• A degree in Electrical, Civil, Mechanical Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Strong experience in design engineering, design management, or multidisciplinary infrastructure projects.
• Proven ability to manage design in complex project environments with multiple stakeholders and interfaces.
• A good understanding of CDM 2015 roles, duties, and responsibilities.
• Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status, or capable of progressing towards professional accreditation (desirable).
• Proven experience delivering BESS, or Substations, or related infrastructure environments (desirable).
• Exposure to temporary works and construction delivery (desirable).

If you are interested in this role, please apply.

Please note: you must already have the right to work in the country where this role is based to be considered for it.