Internal Design Manager

Responsibilities:

* Line manage the existing in house designers

* Manage existing designers and to ensure the set deliverables in the contracts are achieved.

* Collaborative working with design houses, internal surveyors and internal design teams to validate designs and costs.

* Implement the new Ghost Plan model for design internally.

* Manage survey output from inhouse mobile designers

* Manage the budget for towns and deliver cost effective designs ensuring high PIA usage.

* To support and implement the roles, processes & procedures and support with automation development

* To support initially with the design target of 80k homes by end of March 2021 and then roll onto 100k homes per year.

* Work with third party providers to develop systems and automation tools that improve the efficiency of Swish's design and integrate into other systems ithin the business

* Establish methods of working with other internal teams as well as our civil contractors

* Manage a robust process for the handover of data from Design to build and as built

* Work with other stakeholders across Swish to ensure wider business objectives are met.

Skills Required:

* Experience of working with design houses/planning contractors

* People management experience

* Experience of FTTP networks & processes

* Understanding of different FTTP Network topologies

* QGIS experience

* Detailed knowledge of PIA product from Openreach

* Project Management Experience

* People management experience