Lead Design Manager

We’re pleased to present the opportunity to join Urenco as a Lead Design Manager. Based at our Capenhurst site location, you’ll set the overall technical direction for complex multi-disciplinary projects and act as a key decision maker, ensuring a suitable balance between all potentially conflicting drivers is achieved. To oversee the development of design delivery schedules, ensuring all relevant disciplines are accounted for, and to manage the interface between these disciplines throughout the design development.

To represent the project from a technical perspective at key stakeholder meetings, having overall oversight of the basis for key design decisions, and a detailed understanding of the technical position of the project. To maintain oversight of the design managers who report into you.

Urenco is a trusted, long-term supplier to the nuclear industry, specialising in safe, cost effective and reliable uranium enrichment services. As demand in our sector increases, we are creating career opportunities and growth across our teams.

For us, a happy and engaged workforce is vital to our sustainability. Our aim is to recruit and retain talented people who can help us deliver outstanding customer service and achieve long term commercial success.

Join us on our journey, front and centre, to a net zero future.

What will your day look like?

• Accountable for the identification of proportionate and appropriate design solutions
• Accountable for ensuring appropriate stakeholder engagement in projects Accountable for ensuring a balanced approach between engineering disciplines is achieved
• Accountable for ensuring logical, achievable, integrated cross-discipline schedules are developed
• Accountable for monitoring delivery of the technical aspects of projects in line with the agreed scope and schedule. Ensuring any deviance is appropriately justified, understood and managed.
• Accountable for prioritizing where conflicts of resource exist, based on an understanding of the impact on design development Ensuring LFE is accounted for in design delivery.
• Accountable for ensuring configuration control throughout the project lifecycle
• Accountable for ensuring CAD support is available to support the project requirements across the UUK portfolio.
• Accountable for maintaining oversight of design managers within your team
• Accountable for developing design managers within your team
• Accountable for ensuring UUK processes for design package delivery are robust, efficient and align with CI-Eng-01
What do you need to be great at this role?

• Degree in relevant Engineering discipline.
• Chartered member of a relevant Engineering Institute.
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in the management and development of complex design packages
• Experience of leading teams to deliver technical packages of work.
• Good cross discipline technical knowledge and appreciation.
• Thorough knowledge of and experience applying robust engineering processes, ideally within the nuclear industry.
• Thorough appreciation of international and UK standards, legislation and regulations relating to engineering and design.
• Sound knowledge of current health and safety legislation.
• Excellent IT skills, including Windows and Microsoft applications, Documentum and SAP.
• Ability to maintain and develop own technical knowledge to ensure the best, cost effective and safe solutions are proposed and implemented.
• Skilled in exercising authority in the control of contractors and suppliers. Excellent communication, reporting, & presentation, skills.ng skills.

What can you expect of us?

At Urenco we’re dedicated to offering flexible benefits that support our people across all aspects of their lives. We’re delighted to offer a range of benefits to support our employees’ physical, emotional and financial wellbeing.

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer:

• Annual leave starting at 25 days, which increases by one day for every two years of service up to a maximum of 30 days. In addition, you will be able to accrue 13 additional days off to be used flexibly.
• A diverse range of family friendly policies.
• A generous bonus scheme.
• A defined contribution pension scheme; with up to 16% employer’s contribution.
• Flexible benefits package; including life assurance and income protection. In addition, you’ll have an opportunity to purchase additional benefits that suit your lifestyle and take advantage of tax and NI savings.
• Education and training; we take pride in helping people learn and develop by supporting, accelerating and directing your learning. As well as the completion of mandatory health and safety courses, training packages will be offered to meet your specific needs.

Please be aware that this role is subject to security clearance and medical, drug and alcohol testing prior to start.

Our Promise

At Urenco, everyone is welcome. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where we all have a voice, and you can feel confident being yourself. ?We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. ?We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility. ??