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Engineering · Full-time
Lead Design Engineer
Hybrid, UK Full-time
Lead a defined workstream for Thames Water projects from inception through to completion — providing technical assurance across the full design lifecycle aligned to RIBA stages, managing stakeholder coordination and contractor relationships, and ensuring every design meets security, technical and asset-compliance standards.
Responsibilities
- Report to the Design Lead and own lifecycle responsibility for your assigned workstream / project.
- Support other Critec Group team members with their workstreams.
- Maintain reports, documents and records on the Critec Group and Thames Water SharePoint systems.
- Follow established project-management processes using the approved documentation.
- Build strong relationships with Thames Water stakeholders and Tier 1 contractors.
- Manage the RIBA stages — Stage Gate 1–4 and PAD 1–4 presentations.
- Arrange meetings and prepare reports for site surveys, project setup, security risk assessments, workshops and stakeholder engagement.
- Maintain stakeholder-engagement information and review EES Solution Estimates.
- Prepare and deliver Technical Governance reports.
- Draft and review CAD drawings.
- Engage with CIA, Planning, Ecology & Environmental and CTSAs (SIPA).
- Issue Service Orders and Principal Contractor / Design Appointments.
- Carry out HSI 18 / HSI 14 / SHE17 health & safety activities.
- Produce accurate reports that give senior management full transparency.
- Attend weekly progress meetings and site visits, and run monthly project reviews and client-interface meetings.
- Assist with design scope changes and their resolution, and manage design-change processes (TQs and waivers).
- Develop and revise Thames Water briefs.
- Review security, electrical, technical and asset-standard compliance.
- Liaise with framework contractors on detailed-design production and approval, and answer design queries on detailed design and asset standards.
- Review civils / structural design and coordinate the relevant expertise; coordinate electrical design reviews and approvals.
- Present and manage monthly documentation-audit reviews, and attend Commissioning, Collaboration, Design and Progress meetings.
- Monitor RAG reviews and documentation, the Design Programme and Tracker, and the Installation Programme and Tracker.
- Review EWNs and provide assistance, liaising daily with Tier 1 contractor design teams on live issues.
- Develop, review and update KPIs.
- Track, review and report on snagging, coordinating with the Commissioning team.
- Attend site meetings for new designs / sites as requested — and add value as appropriate.