Assistant Design Manager

Job Title: Assistant Design Manager

Reporting to: Design Manager or Head of Design Management

Role purpose

The Assistant Design Manager is a key member of the Design Management team. They support the Design Manager in coordinating, monitoring, and facilitating the assurance activities across Energy Transmission projects. The role acts as the primary support function, ensuring information flows effectively, design risks are captured, and design outputs align with standards.

The Assistant Design Manager works closely with designers, planners, commercial teams and PMs, helping manage the programme, documentation, meetings and design interfaces to ensure successful project delivery.

Responsibilities & Duties

Including but not limited to the following:

1. Programme & Deliverable Support

• Assist in developing and updating the design programme.

• Proactively track deliverables, chase outstanding actions and highlight slippage.

• Coordinate sequencing and input requirements across disciplines.

2. Design Assurance & Documentation Management

• Prepare design review packs and meeting minutes.

• Support compliance checking against standards and governance processes.

• Maintain design logs, trackers, risk registers and status reports.

3. Change, TQs & RFI Management

• Maintain registers for design changes, EWNs, CEs, PMIs, TQs and RFIs.

• Ensure correct routing of technical queries between teams.

• Provide early warning of potential issues to the DM and PM.

4. Interface & Communication

• Act as a link between designers, PMs, commercial teams and the site.

• Support stakeholder communication, document control and coordination.

• Assist in ensuring design intent is communicated clearly to construction teams.

5. Risk & Safety Support

• Support the DM in identifying and documenting design risks.

• Ensure CDM compliance data is captured and stored appropriately.

• Maintain communication with Principal Designer support functions.

6. Team & Improvement Contribution

• Promote collaboration and cross-discipline coordination.

• Support lessons learned collection and dissemination.

• Build technical and managerial competence to move toward DM level.

Key interfaces

Relationships with key stakeholders:

• Design Manager

• Design teams (internal and external)

• Project Managers

• Planning & Commercial Teams

• Principal Designer

• Client Representatives

• Site Delivery Teams

Person Specification

Qualifications and experience

The jobholder shall possess:

Essential:

• 4+ years of experience in a related role and possess relevant qualifications (Construction Management, Engineering, Project Management or similar)

• Proven ability to deliver Design related projects, with a high level of attention to detail.

• Exceptional organisational skills and ability to work on own initiative

• Good communication and integration skills, with the ability to work with people at all levels of the organisation

• Project leadership at a management level, delivering a range of projects that vary in complexity, are multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams

Desired:

• Degree qualified in a relevant Engineering discipline or Project Management / Construction management or similar.

• Experience working to energy transmission and distribution specifications, processes and procedures.

• Experience of working in the UK Energy sector or within highly regulated industries

• Membership of a relevant professional institution

Safety, Health, Environmental and Quality

Omexom employees are required to abide by the Company SHEQ policies at all times. These policies are available on the Company’s Integrated Management System (IMS). Employee’s shall ensure they review any updates to these policies and behave accordingly.

Values

In line with Omexom’s values, the jobholder must have the following qualities:

• Team Spirit & Generosity – able to work effectively within and contribute to the Omexom team to deliver results, provide support and drive performance.

• Trust and Empowerment – enjoy managing their responsibilities and time to ensure work is completed efficiently and professionally.

• Integrity and Responsibility – enjoy taking responsibility for their duties and managing these effectively to ensure efficient high quality results.

• Innovation & Entrepreneurship – continually strive to improve processes and introduce new initiatives to improve efficiency.