Design Support Manager - Utilities

Design Support Manager - Utilities (Multi) - Permanent - Hamilton Area - £30000-£40000 Toro Consulting represent a large Multi Utilities (MU) organisation currently searching for a Design Support Manager to join their expanding team. The successful candidate will play a vital role in the management of the Design Support Team. The candidate will be responsible for the management of all technical design work, managing both projects and people to ensure that the designs are to our clients and industry standards, as well as to customer requirements. As Design Support Manager, the successful candidate will be required to effectively manager the design support process from quote acceptance to adoptions, ensuring that organisational priorities are achieved. You will provide accurate and timely reporting on project status and manage direct reports to ensure that project work is completed to the required specification. If you are an experienced Design Support Manager or an Assistant Design Manager who can successfully improve operational efficiency within our clients design department, we want to hear from you! Key tasks: *Contribute to the evaluation and development of process and systems to improve operational efficiency *Monitor performance of direct reports, implementing appropriate strategies to improve performance and efficiencies *Management of departmental performance including target setting, monitoring and review *Manage departmental interface with other business units, ensuring appropriate liaison with other unit managers *Implementation of performance improvement techniques to increase operation efficiency within the department *Undertake line management duties including appraisals, performance management and coaching *Liaison with Sales and Marketing teams to prioritise design schedule *Provide appropriate administrative leadership within area of expertise *Work with business stakeholders to increase departmental capability through recruitment, development and training in line with objectives and targets *Lead, maintain and implement process and procedure changes to improve quality and productivity within the department *Actively monitor and manage key project parameters ensuring accuracy in system updates and monitoring Essential Qualifications: *HNC/D in Engineering or Business Management *Experience of undertaking line management duties including performance management, appraisals and recruitment *Significant Experience of managing a team to achieve required outputs *Knowledge of industry standards *Demonstrable experience of planning, monitoring and prioritising work-streams within a business unit *Experience of managing and reporting on a variety of data types *Experience of reviewing administration processes and implementing new processes and systems of work *Effectively use a range of IT software including MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel and MS Outlook *Strong, dynamic leadership style *High level of interpersonal skills and the ability to convey technical information For further information on this position, please contact either Mehmet or Matteo on (Apply online only)