Designer's Site Representative

This role is based on Site in Birmingham** **This role is inside IR35** Qualifications: • Degree qualified in an appropriate engineering discipline (Civil, Structural, Mechanical) • Chartered Engineer (Civil, Structural, Mechanical) • Experience: =>10 years in design and/or construction including proven experience in construction assurance processes on major transportation construction projects. Role: 1. Reports to Construction Phase Support (CPS) Project Manager. 2. Will have responsibility and accountability for the Design Consultant’s Site Support Team within a defined geographical delivery area: a. Tunnels b. Mainline South c. Delta d. Mainline North e. Mainline North 3. Will be responsible for adherence to relevant CPS Management Plan and Contractor’s construction management plans. 4. Will have day to day responsibility for coordinating the CPS technical team and reporting sublot team utilisation and future sublot team resource needs to the CPS Project Manager. 5. Will be the Contractor’s primary point of contact for all technical construction-based queries and field change requests and shall coordinate with the CPS multi-disciplinary sublot team to provide timely reviews and responses to all RFIs, FCRs and NCRs. 6. Will be accountable and responsible for maintaining a clear audit trail for all CPS team communications between the CPS team and the Contractor and all communication in support of the Contractor’s construction assurance documentation and handover packages. 7. Will act as the interface between the design team as required to provide technical support to the Contractor and to escalate queries to the design team when needed, based on significance and complexity of the field changes or queries. 8. Will ensure that the Contractor’s queries are disseminated to the correct disciplines within the CPS team for review / response and will work closely with the document controller to that effect. 9. Will work with the Information Manager to ensure that all systems are in place and working appropriately to manage documentation, models and flow of information. 10. Will establish and maintain regular (at least weekly) meetings with the Contractor to provide updates on construction team queries and to establish what queries are in the process of being raised, as well as any specific resources that may be required to support any construction-based activities. 11. Identifies any technical resources that will be required based on a rolling 3-month lookahead to the CPS Project Manager and any other resource needs that become apparent at short notice. 12. Manage health and safety in design inputs as needed to any construction-based queries. 13. Provides input to dashboard reports with status of open construction-based queries, for discussion in team meetings as well as with the Contractors’ appointed design team contact. 14. Confirmation with the CPS Project Manager for any queries related to scope or informally communicated requests. 15. Checks EWNs, NCEs and QTAs prior to CPS Project Manager review and approval. 16. Oversees, manages and approves any as built drawings/ models/ information for submission