Assistant Design Manager

Cundall Johnston & Partners LLP; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company where you will support the management of innovative data centre projects. As an Assistant Design Manager, you will play a vital role in coordinating design teams, managing project documentation, and ensuring effective communication across all levels. This position offers a unique opportunity to develop your skills in a supportive environment while contributing to the future of data centre design. With a focus on collaboration and excellence, this role is perfect for individuals eager to make a meaningful impact in the field of critical systems.

Qualifications

• Strong organizational and planning skills to manage tasks effectively.
• Ability to communicate effectively with team members and clients.
• Knowledge of construction project design processes.

Responsibilities

• Assist in managing large-scale data centre projects and design teams.
• Coordinate project meetings, workshops, and site visits.
• Maintain document management systems and design management tools.

Skills

Organizational Skills

Time Management

Communication Skills

Proactive Approach

Problem-Solving

Education

Degree in Engineering or Architecture

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Our dedicated Critical Systems team play a key role in making mission critical buildings more energy efficient, sustainable and cost effective to operate. The team works almost exclusively in the data centre field, keeping abreast of current best practice while researching breakthrough technologies that shape future trends.

Our team are a source of world leading expertise and offer a pro-active and collaborative approach to skill development, and professional excellence.

We work closely with our clients to develop, improve and deploy their standard ‘template’ designs across the world and so have the unique opportunity to influence the future of data centre design. We also work on many bespoke data centre projects.

The Role

The Role

The Assistant Design Manager is responsible for providing support to the Cundall management team of Data Centre design projects in the UK and overseas. This includes assisting the Senior Design Manager to liaise with all design discipline teams, tracking progress and coordination of design stage issues.

The role requires controlling design management tools used on the projects such as trackers of client requirements and comments, design meeting trackers, outstanding action trackers, deliverable schedules, project filing systems and protocols.

The assistant design manager will also act as support for project team organizational issues such as scheduling and setting up meetings and reviews, assisting in workshops, and site visit arrangements.

MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assisting the Senior Design Manager and Project Partner to help successfully manage delivery of large-scale data centre project.
• Following up with the design team on assignments and actions.
• Assisting in document management including setting up and maintaining project filing system.
• Assisting in creating and managing the design management tools including design meeting minutes and action trackers, information requested trackers, deliverable trackers, variation trackers, and client comment trackers.
• Assisting in managing and controlling the design change management processes and procedures.
• Assisting in coordination of design stage issues including tracking and following up on each design team deliverables status, compiling project issue documents, liaison with document controllers for issue completion.
• Assisting in organizing project meetings, workshops, site visits and events. Coordinating required agendas, invites, travel arrangements and meeting facilities.
• Participating in design team meetings and client meetings and taking notes.
• Assisting in liaison with commercial team, providing required input as directed.
• Appreciating QA procedures and monitoring if they are being followed by all disciplines.

Our established critical systems team has a wealth of experience, as well as an excellent project pipeline. This is a great place to develop your skills and gain experience within a supportive team atmosphere.

The Skills

The Skills

You will have a proactive approach to take on responsibility and aspire to drive issues through to completion independently. You will possess strong organisational, planning and time management skills in order to manage your tasks and objectives.

Collaborative in nature, you’ll be able to empathise with your team’s needs and utilise excellent communication skills, both in writing and verbally. You will be expected to use your initiative to overcome challenges and have a positive, can-do attitude.

You will be expected over time to develop and maintain technical knowledge of the projects to achieve understanding of the design principles and take part in discussions on project issues between various internal and external parties involved.

KEY ATTRIBUTES:

• Knowledge and understanding of construction project design processes.
• Basic knowledge of the technical aspects of building design and construction including systems and processes.
• High level of competence of working with MS Office environment.
• Ability to plan and programme own work and coordinate that of others.
• Ability to multi-task and work efficiently under pressure with careful attention to detail.
• Attitude of taking initiative, enthusiasm, and self-motivation.
• Strong communication skills, ability to work alongside all levels of the team.

We know that to be the best at what we do we need a diverse workforce underpinned by an inclusive culture. Creating environments where everyone can find joy doing their best work is also great for everyone. That’s why we positively welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and identities, and encourage, support, and celebrate the diverse voices of our people.