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What will you do?
- Define the requirements and scope of specific packages of design work and ensure closure of requirements through to commissioning and handover
- Champion ‘Safe by Design’ with the design supply chain, to maximise the opportunity to improve the health, safety and wellbeing of all those engaged in and impacted by the project
- Operate within the processes and procedures of the civils programme
- Management and reporting of design delivery performance for time, cost, quality and other performance objectives as required from the supply chain, including the application of robust change management
- Interface with all Internal civils programme functions to ensure project and statutory requirements are understood and implemented and recognised in the design
- Ensure that third party requirements and approvals required during the design stage are discharged appropriately
- Engage with other civils programme functions including commercial, procurement, project controls, construction delivery, H, S&W etc. to ensure that technical issues are suitably understood and recognised
- Hold regular collaborative meetings with the designers and wider teams to review and share problems/issues, promote innovative thinking, capture lessons learnt/best practice, provide technical support and ensure consistency of design
- Challenge the designers’ proposals to de‑risk technical solutions, promote and facilitate value engineering solutions, leading to reductions of quantities, costs and optimisation of the construction programme
- Coordinate the inputs and interfaces of the Technical Assurance Team to ensure a Verified, Validated and Configured design
Dimensions
- Competent technical knowledge and experience of Geotechnical Design
- Ability (and experience) to lead and manage multi-disciplinary/organisation design teams
- Ability to communicate and engage effectively at a range of levels: Management Team, client departments, design delivery teams, third party authorisers etc.
- In depth understanding of project scheduling, commercial arrangements and budget control
- Clear understanding of design and engineering interfaces with: construction teams, commissioning teams, supply chain and third parties
What are we looking for?
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Competent technical knowledge and experience of Geotechnical design
- Ability (and experience) to lead and manage multi-disciplinary/organisation design teams
- Ability to communicate and engage effectively at a range of levels: Management xlqdzyr Team, client departments, design delivery teams, third party authorisers etc.
- In depth understanding of project scheduling, commercial arrangements, and budget control
- Clear understanding of design and engineering interfaces with: construction teams, commissioning teams, supply chain and third parties
Qualifications & Experience
- Degree Level qualified and/ or 5-10 years’ experience in this specific field
Desirable
- Professional accreditation and/ or Geotechnical sector specific MSc degree
What we will offer you?
The CWA is a single delivery organisation made up of the client (Sizewell C) and three parent companies – Balfour Beatty, Bouygues and Laing O'Rourke – which offer industry leading packages including market leading salaries, generous annual leave entitlements, pension scheme and other flexible benefits.
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Location: Leiston
Job Description:
What will you do?
- Define the requirements and scope of specific packages of design work and ensure closure of requirements through to commissioning and handover
- Champion ‘Safe by Design’ with the design supply chain, to maximise the opportunity to improve the health, safety and wellbeing of all those engaged in and impacted by the project
- Operate within the processes and procedures of the civils programme
- Management and reporting of design delivery performance for time, cost, quality and other performance objectives as required from the supply chain, including the application of robust change management
- Interface with all Internal civils programme functions to ensure project and statutory requirements are understood and implemented and recognised in the design
- Ensure that third party requirements and approvals required during the design stage are discharged appropriately
- Engage with other civils programme functions including commercial, procurement, project controls, construction delivery, H, S&W etc. to ensure that technical issues are suitably understood and recognised
- Hold regular collaborative meetings with the designers and wider teams to review and share problems/issues, promote innovative thinking, capture lessons learnt/best practice, provide technical support and ensure consistency of design
- Challenge the designers’ proposals to de‑risk technical solutions, promote and facilitate value engineering solutions, leading to reductions of quantities, costs and optimisation of the construction programme
- Coordinate the inputs and interfaces of the Technical Assurance Team to ensure a Verified, Validated and Configured design
Dimensions
- Competent technical knowledge and experience of Geotechnical Design
- Ability (and experience) to lead and manage multi-disciplinary/organisation design teams
- Ability to communicate and engage effectively at a range of levels: Management Team, client departments, design delivery teams, third party authorisers etc.
- In depth understanding of project scheduling, commercial arrangements and budget control
- Clear understanding of design and engineering interfaces with: construction teams, commissioning teams, supply chain and third parties
What are we looking for?
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Competent technical knowledge and experience of Geotechnical design
- Ability (and experience) to lead and manage multi-disciplinary/organisation design teams
- Ability to communicate and engage effectively at a range of levels: Management xlqdzyr Team, client departments, design delivery teams, third party authorisers etc.
- In depth understanding of project scheduling, commercial arrangements, and budget control
- Clear understanding of design and engineering interfaces with: construction teams, commissioning teams, supply chain and third parties
Qualifications & Experience
- Degree Level qualified and/ or 5-10 years’ experience in this specific field
Desirable
- Professional accreditation and/ or Geotechnical sector specific MSc degree
What we will offer you?
The CWA is a single delivery organisation made up of the client (Sizewell C) and three parent companies – Balfour Beatty, Bouygues and Laing O’Rourke – which offer industry leading packages including market leading salaries, generous annual leave entitlements, pension scheme and other flexible benefits.
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Posted: May 15th, 2026