Senior Design Manager - Mechanical - High Containment Laboratories

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Senior Design Manager - Mechanical - High Containment Laboratories

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Design Manager

Location: London

Project: Science and Research Based Project

Full-Time

About Us

Laing O'Rourke is a leading force in delivering complex infrastructure and construction projects across the UK. Through technical excellence, innovation, and collaboration, we ensure that every project achieves the highest standards of safety, sustainability, and performance.

The Role

As a Design Manager, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring all design information is delivered on time, to the required quality, and in line with contractual obligations. Working closely with senior leaders, project teams, and external partners, you will help to drive design from early concept through to construction and handover.

This is an exciting opportunity to work at the heart of project delivery, ensuring design outputs are fully coordinated, compliant, and optimised for buildability, safety, and sustainability.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the review, control, and distribution of design information across all project stages.
• Support compliance with design management procedures and contractual obligations.
• Oversee the delivery of design outputs with consideration for programme, buildability, safety, maintenance, and technical suitability.
• Coordinate with internal teams, clients, and external designers to ensure effective collaboration.
• Support construction and handover activities, including technical queries, quality assurance, and documentation.
• Report on design progress and contribute to design reviews and risk management processes.

About You

We're looking for a detail-oriented and proactive Design Manager who can work confidently across complex, multi-disciplinary projects. You will bring:

• Degree in an Architectural or Engineering discipline (Civil, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, etc.).
• Chartered status
• 5+ years' experience in design management, with exposure to multiple sectors and procurement routes.
• Strong knowledge of end-to-end design management, from concept to handover.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to manage stakeholders at all levels.
• A proactive approach to problem-solving, adaptability, and continuous improvement.

Why Join Us?

• Shape the success of landmark projects that make a lasting impact.
• Work within a collaborative and expert technical team committed to excellence.
• Access to cutting-edge tools, digital platforms, and innovation initiatives.
• A culture that champions sustainability, inclusivity, and continuous learning.
• A competitive package with opportunities for professional development and career progression.

Apply now to take the next step in your career and play a key role in delivering technical excellence across our projects.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the 'Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email

Company

We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality - this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

"As an engineering enterprise, Laing O'Rourke is committed to playing a vital role in building a stronger and more sustainable economy that benefits society in general."

- Ray O'Rourke KBE, Chief Executive Officer

Our Origin Story:

Diversity & Inclusion:

Laing O'Rourke is committed to inclusion; an employer that maintains the highest standard of employment practice and one which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse society in which we live and work.

Laing O'Rourkebelieves that when we go to work, we should feel we are going to a place where we are accepted, understood and valued and that we should make others we work with feel this way too.

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION SUBCOMMITTEES

Laing O'Rourke have ten Diversity & Inclusion Subcommittees. The purpose of the diversity and inclusion sub-committees is to offer a safe and supportive environment to listen and share personal experiences and insights, as well as play a sympathetic role for each other.

The sub-committees help to drive education, events and initiatives across the organisation as well as help colleagues to understand their purpose.

Current subcommitteesinclude Dis-Ability, Carers, Ethnicity, Gender, Families that live abroad,LGBTQ+, Women & Menopause, & Working Families.

Support for Disabled Employees:

• LOR recruitment, HR Teams, Leadership and management have undertakendisability awareness trainingand are eager to provide an inclusive and accessibility experience to job applicants and new colleagues
• LOR Dis-ABILITY Subcommitteeis an Employee Network Group of colleagues passionate about disability inclusion. Its aims are to raise awareness and remove barriers around disability, neurodiversity and long term health conditions to support creating an inclusive and diverse workplace for everyone.
• Disability Confident Leaders- We are using the requirements of the government scheme to create an inclusive environment for disabled job applicants and existing colleagues.
• LOR are members of theBusiness Disability Forum, giving access to a wide range of resources and information. Our line managers have access to their best practice guides and confidential support line.
• LOR are partnering withEven Breakto have access to exemplary advice around disability inclusion.

Sustainability:

In April 2021 Laing O'Rourke announced new global sustainability targets. These include:

• To be a net zero company by 2050
• By 2033 to achieve equal gender balance across currently 5,500 international staff

Rewards andBenefits:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Pension - basic and enhanced schemes
• Health and Wellbeing
• Virtual GP
• Health Assessment (Age 50+)
• Phased return to work (80% of working week for 100% pay)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 5 days leave extra can be purchased
• Employee Discounts
• Allowances - car or transport allowance, depending on role/grade

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