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Design Co-ordinator

Job Posted: 4 hours ago

Salary: £ Competitive
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Tamworth, Staffordshire

Expire in: a month

Job Description

Are you looking for a new challenge where your engineering experience, management skills, excellent communication and co-ordination skills, and keen eye for detail will be fully valued, nurtured and developed?

As a result of our projected workload, we are seeking a Design Coordinator to strengthen our Design Team. Initially, you will be working on schemes across the Midlands but our portfolio enables you the opportunity to work on projects nationwide. The role involves co-ordinating the activities of our design partners to deliver projects such as new and replacement debris screens on watercourses and enabling fish and eel passage on weirs and other structures for valued clients such as the Environment Agency.

As a Design Coordinator, you will use your industry experience to help our clients scope work packages that meet their needs. You will work with our Company Design Manager to help select design partners with the appropriate skills, knowledge and experience to deliver the work to the high-quality standards we expect. You will support our designers in setting technical standards, creating ambitious programmes of work and driving their delivery to achieve these. This is a partnership approach that requires excellent people skills to foster positive working relationships.

Now is an exciting time to join Jackson Civil Engineering as we experience an increase in design and build civil engineering schemes and look ahead to opportunities presented by future frameworks with our key clients.

Main Duties include:

  * Proactively managing a design team which may include consultants and/or specialist designers.

  * Attending meetings with clients, including presenting and discussing design solutions.

  * Preparation of design documents, briefs, reports and management plans.

  * Development and management of design programmes.

  * Reviewing design documents for compliance with scheme requirements, utilising gained knowledge and experience to advise on buildability and value engineering opportunities.

We’re after someone with:

  * Good collaborative communication skills.

  * Must have an engineering background which allows them to envisage how schemes are built for example at experienced Senior Engineer, Sub Agent, Site Agent or Site Manager level.

  * A liking for detail and accuracy.

  * Programming software skills and experience in coordinating design programmes.

  * The ability to manage and ensure quality throughout design process and approval.

  * An understanding of the need to work to accepted design processes, procedures, guidance, codes and standards.

  * Awareness of applicable CDM Regulation requirements and able to ensure the designers implement them.

  * A general understanding of common construction specifications.

  * Soft management skills to encourage designers to provide on time, right first time, solutions.

We also offer some fantastic perks!

  * Company car or car allowance

  * Life assurance cover (4 x annual salary)

  * Company pension scheme (we match up to 8%)

  * Hybrid working – Up to 2 days at home.

  * The ‘Great Escape’ – leaving work early every Friday.

  * 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (with an option of buying more holiday!)

  * Cycle to work scheme.

  * Employee assistance program

  * Employee platform benefits

  * Free on-site parking

  * A supportive business who wants to help you progress in your career

Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. We also place high importance on our inclusive recruitment policy and will do our very best to support those applicants who may need adjustments in order to take part in the recruitment process. Please do let us know if you require any additional assistance or adjustments. Due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not always possible to respond to unsuccessful applicants. Therefore if we have not responded to your application within two weeks please note that on this occasion your application has not been successful

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