Production Manager (Design)

Contract Type & location

Role is full-time and based in our office in Bucharest, Romania.

Support the Department Manager in the leading activity of the team, across all transport infrastructure domains.

Egis has been working in Romania for more than 25 years, providing engineering and consultancy services in road and rail transport sectors as well as water and environment, energy, urban development and other institutional advisory services.

Egis is a global consulting and engineering firm working in construction, transport and mobility services. Our mission: create and operate intelligent infrastructure and buildings to further the transition to a low-carbon economy and contribute to more balanced and sustainable territorial development. To support our growth plan, we offer a wide variety of career opportunities.

We are committed to fostering a workplace that values diversity and inclusion. We welcome all qualified applicants and ensure fair consideration without regard to disabilities, medical conditions, race, colour, ethnicity, nationality, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, religion, political beliefs or marital status.

Specific benefits for this include:

• Working in a dynamic international environment as part of a highly regarded global engineering company
• The ability to shape your career across a wide variety of market sectors and activities, including international mobility opportunities
• A structured career development program of continuous learning, review and development
• Option to work flexibly (hours and location) according to latest company procedure and business needs
• Competitive salary and benefits package, including meal tickets and medical subscription
• Office activities and occasional business trips to other sites

• Manage the local design activity, providing overall direction and leadership but also coordinate with other Design centres representatives within Egis (e.g. to facilitate transfer of knowledge/experience), as being the contact point for the exchanges with the other design group teams
• Plan, organise and control workflow within design department and assign tasks, coordinate inter-specialties collaboration
• Foresee idle time and/or need for additional resources and find solutions to optimise workforce
• Ensure successful delivery and customer satisfaction of all projects in the department, in-line with company processes, including performance and risk management
• Understand and oversee the design production needs and priorities and ensure that they are allocated and delivered accordingly
• Ensure implementation of local and group procedures and processes
• Seek to improve the efficiency of company processes, see opportunities, be open-minded to listening and exploring new avenues
• Support the PMs to ensure that project and departmental budgets and overall needs are accurately forecast, monitored and regularly reviewed.
• Maintain relationship and regular contact with Clients, Partners, Subcontractors - accurately identifying needs and effectively finding and support the Project Managers in negotiating solutions to meet them. Represent the wider company effectively and introduce other staff.
• Effectively manage the internal co-ordination of the teams, providing support to the Project Managers and being involved in recruitment
• Assess and elaborate proposals of recruitment, with the detailed description of R&R, level of experience and urgency
• Implement quality control procedures to ensure high standards of delivery and standardised methodologies and production processes
• Support continuous improvement, automation, common data environment (CDE) and innovation in production eg through BIM adoption and digitisation of workflows
• Oversee the planning of works, with clear workflows, standardised deliverables list (MIDP and WBS), schedules and verification plans (GANTT)
• Promote a value engineering approach with strong attention to client needs
• Take part to the technical network of the Group and collaborate with their members in order to promote the technical awareness and sharing
• Actively participate the Technical Risk Management Network and promote the risk assessment culture in Egis Romania design teams

• Preferably 10 years of proven experience in a similar position in the field of road and rail infrastructure design in Romania
• Prior experience in managing teams including the ability to lead and motivate people and to transmit knowledge and expertise
• Experience with managing international contracts (including public procurement laws, international contractual standards such as FIDIC, NEC, etc)
• Effective management style required to formulate and motivate teams
• Flexibility and adaptability, including the ability to work under stress and extended hours and manage priorities and risks at high speed
• Good skills in organising, scheduling, planning, able to delegate tasks and responsibilities where appropriate
• Fluent in Romanian and English with ability to write concise, well-structured and clear reports summarising complex information
• Civil Engineering degree, majoring in railways, roads and bridges
• Strong computer skills (proficiency in recognised design software and Microsoft applications).