Design House Manager

Responsibilities:
* Manage existing design houses and the contracts 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.
* Manage the budget for external design houses 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.
Core Skills:
* Experience of working with design houses/planning contractors
* Experience of FTTP networks & processes
* Understanding of different FTTP Network topologies
* Contract Management experience
* QGIS experience ideal but not mandatory
* Project Management Experience
* People management experience