Required Skills
Design Coordination
Civil Engineering
Water & Wastewater Projects
Temporary Works Knowledge
CDM
BIM
Design Risk Management
Project Design Management
Technical Assurance
Job Summary
Our Client, a leading contractor within Water & Civils sectors, is seeking a Design Coordinator to join their team in Reading.
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 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 Design Coordinator will have the opportunity to work on Water and Wastewater schemes with various clients across Southern Region.
Experience
- 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.
Job 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.
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