Senior Design Reviewer & Construction Manager

DESOTEC is an international environmental services company that helps protect the planet with sustainable mobile filtration solutions for the purification of liquids and gases.
We have approximately 450 employees, united in Generation D., who are all committed to helping protect the planet by driving positive ecological change across all industries.
Since 2026, DESOTEC has been part of EQT, an international Swedish investment group.

As a Senior Design Review & Site Manager, you are responsible for ensuring technical integrity, contractual compliance, and controlled execution across both the design and construction phases of EPC projects.

Design Reviewer Management

• You lead and coordinate the end-to-end design review process, ensuring full compliance with Employer’s Requirements and project performance criteria.
• You critically assess multidisciplinary design deliverables (civil, structural, MEP, and process engineering) and ensure technical consistency and interface alignment across all disciplines.
• You manage technical queries, design changes, and clash resolution, while proactively identifying and mitigating design risks, deviations, and non-compliances.
• You act as the central interface between engineering teams, external design offices, and client representatives, consolidating inputs and supporting the formal design validation process.

Objective: Deliver a fully validated, coordinated, and constructible design package with minimized technical and interface risk.

Construction Site Coordination

• During project execution, you coordinate day-to-day site activities across project locations in France within a single-point responsibility EPC setup.
• You oversee contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers, ensuring execution in line with approved design documentation, technical specifications, and project schedules.
• You actively monitor progress against the critical path, support resource planning, and contribute to schedule optimization.
• You enforce strict adherence to Health & Safety standards and ensure compliance with applicable national regulations. In addition, you oversee on-site quality assurance and ensure that all works meet defined technical and contractual requirements.
• You lead or support testing, commissioning, and Taking Over processes, ensuring operational readiness and structured handover.

Objective: Oversee construction activities, ensure safe, compliant, and schedule-driven execution with full alignment to EPC deliverables.

Contract & Compliance Management

• You operate strictly within an EPC / FIDIC (Silver Book) contractual framework, ensuring adherence to all contractual procedures, communication protocols, and obligations.
• You identify and assess risks, deviations, and potential claims at an early stage, issuing the required notices and ensuring proper documentation and follow-up.
• You maintain accurate and auditable records of site activities, progress, and contractual correspondence.
• You work closely with project management and contract management to ensure transparent reporting and effective escalation of contractual or commercial risks.

Objective: Safeguard the project against claims exposure, cost overruns, and delays through rigorous contract and risk management.

Coordination & Stakeholder Management

• You act as the central coordination point between internal technical disciplines (engineering, QA/QC, planning), contract management, and external stakeholders including contractors and design partners.
• You ensure structured communication, alignment across interfaces, and timely escalation of critical issues within an international project environment.

Objective: Maintain full alignment between internal stakeholders and external contractors to support efficient and controlled project delivery.

A posssible pathway to Site / Plant Management

 This role offers more than technical responsibility. It might be an opportunity to grow towards a Site or Plant Manager position, taking ownership of industrial operations over time.

We are looking for a strong technical profile with experience in construction, engineering, on industrial environments. You are hands-on, structured, and comfortable working in a dynamic setting, with the ambition to grow into a broader operational role over time.

• Experienced construction professional with 8–10 years in industrial projects, combining site supervision, construction management, and design review coordination.
• Technically versatile: strong understanding of industrial construction, engineering design, and process–construction interfaces.
• Proficient in multidisciplinary systems, capable of reading and interpreting technical drawings across civil, structural, mechanical, and process disciplines.
• Contract-savvy: familiar with EPC project execution and FIDIC contracts (Silver Book), ensuring compliance and proactive risk management.
• Hands-on and present on site, able to influence operations and drive alignment without direct authority.
• Proactive risk identifier, consistently anticipating issues and escalating critical matters early.
• Effective communicator, skilled at liaising with internal teams, external contractors, and client representatives.
• Collaborative and solution-oriented, open-minded with the ability to navigate complex project environments.
• Multilingual capability: fluent in French and English (mandatory), Dutch is an asset.
• Flexible and mobile, ready for hybrid work between Belgium and France and adaptable to shift-based or non-standard hours as project demands..

It goes without saying that you get a lot in return in exchange for your unbridled dedication and enthusiasm: 

• A competitive salary: We guarantee you a (more than) competitive base salary, depending on your experience. 
• Fringe benefits: To optimize your salary package, you can count on a company car with charging or fuel card, a smartphone with a mobile subscription, pension plan and a sales bonus.   
• Work-life-balance / hybrid working: You will work entirely from your comfortable home office. This flexible working arrangement allows you to start your workday in a relaxed manner, avoiding the morning rush, and to enjoy a high level of autonomy. Of course, you’ll be in close touch with your colleagues and manager via Teams, and during our biennial International Sales Meetings in Belgium. 
• Time off to schedule freely: At DESOTEC there is no collective closure. You enjoy 25 paid vacation days and have the freedom to take 10 unpaid vacation days on top of that. This way you can increase your number of vacation days to 35 days!
• Personal & professional growth: You will have every opportunity to immerse yourself in your new role, but also to grow personally and professionally through an extensive range of training courses. 
• Structured onboarding: We prepare a tailored onboarding plan for every new starter, ensuring a smooth integration into your team, tools, and DESOTEC’s mission from day one.  
• Fun and relaxation: You will regularly be invited to one of the many afterworks and other fun activities. Each team also gets a team building budget – it's up to you how you spend it!