Primary Design Function Manager

**Job Description Summary**: Become part of a winning team and help to deliver the Green Energy transition.

The Primary Design Function Manager, supervises and coordinates the design teams in your field of activities. Assists lead engineers at project launching phase, controls engineering process follow up, ensures the proper management of interfaces with our partners and main suppliers.

The Primary Design Function Manager is accountable for the proper compliance to the ‘state of the art’ and applicable standard and regulation in his field of activity, he or she is considered as technical referent for the teams.

As manager, the Primary Design Function Manager is in charge of conducting performance assessment of their teams.

**Key missions of the**Primary Design Function Manager**:
**Project management**
- Scope of work, time schedule.
- Consulted on design task list at project launch.
- Review of general time schedule and assignment of resources to start engineering.
- Check that all required engineering tools are available to execute the project for relevant activities.

**Resources**
- Accountable for design budget on ongoing projects.
- One monthly basis allocates design resources to execute all ongoing projects.
- Manage design workload plan for your discipline and proposes resource arbitration.

**Team management**
- Lead & coordinate design teams of your discipline.
- Animate regular internal team meeting.
- Hold performance development meeting with your team members and propose development plan.
- Perform skills mapping for your teams.

**Engineering process control**
- Ensure consistency of process and tools used on all projects.
- Detect any malfunctioning during different engineering phases and implement corrective actions
- Ensures planning and realisation on time of design reviews, and conduct discipline basic design /gate reviews

**Project strategy & risk management**
- Support PEM in design strategy definition.
- Support team to manage scope or design changes (data for claims, VO..).
- Ensure implementation of EMH guidelines.
- Identify and consolidate for discipline technical risks & opportunities and the corresponding mitigation / action plan.
- Validating the result of design reviews and technical risks assessment for the involved discipline.

**Customer knowledge**
- Consulted to understand customer requirement and check that proposed solutions are coherent with solution proposed in the same geographical area, with similar constraints.
- Consulted about answers to be done to customer technical request.

**Document & configuration management**
- Check that traceability from Customer requirements to equipment specifications is done.
- Check that Tracking & management of identified or potential deviations are done.
- Ensure that Management of return status of project documentation internal or external (approved, comments, resubmit, rejected) is performed for discipline.

**Design expediting**
- Consult on basic design phase
- Support to ensure technical consistency of design area and associated performance level.
- Accountable for the compliance to the ‘state of the art’ and applicable standard and regulation in his field of activity.
- Accountable on completeness of subcontracting files (Scope, Deliverables, Inputs, Schedule) in your discipline.

**Process & Tools**
- Deploy GRID Engineering tools associated to your discipline (CAD, PDM/DMS).
- Integrate EHS requirements in engineering process and deploy HAZID (Hazard identification) sessions at different project phases.
- Give necessary support to consolidate engineering KPI’s for the discipline.

**Interface with Procurement, Supplier/Partner management**
- Support Sourcing and Procurement in the definition of the Supplier’s list according to the project strategy.
- For your discipline, consulted for the technical evaluation of offers from suppliers.
- Consulted in the equipment ITP review and approval.
- Consulted in the review of FAT procedure and participant list to support FAT.
- Involved in subcontracting strategy for your discipline & support sourcing for design subcontractor audits.
- Follows Subcontractor competences and workloads on regular basis.
- Verify the quality of services provided on projects and competitiveness of offers received from design subcontractors.

**Return of Experience & Knowledge Capitalisation**
- Accountable for Site / Design return of experience & design validation.
- Organise functional knowledge capitalisation for dedicated practice areas.

**Quality**
- Comply with Quality Procedures, work instructions and Processes defined at Unit, project level, and in EMH.
- Report or resolve any non-conformances and process in a timely manner.

**Health and Safety**
- Deploy design freeze and EHS in design.
- Demonstrate EHS leadership and ensure Zero Deviation Plan is implemented within the team.
- Sets the example by demonstrating the proper acts and actively observes work conditions and behaviors, giving con