Design Co-Ordinator

Story Contracting Limited; Chorley; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Award-winning training and development

Competitive salary, pension, and car/£

Health cash plan and wellbeing support

Working from home (1 day per week)

Two volunteering days per year

Job summary

Story Contracting Limited in Chorley (North West) is seeking a Design Coordinator to join our growing team. You will coordinate safe, buildable designs from development through AFC, gathering input from disciplines and tracking outputs.

You will work with design managers, clients, consultants, and suppliers to resolve interfaces, monitor deliverables, and support decisions. The role offers hybrid working with one day per week remote and opportunities to develop.

Qualifications

• Experience in design management or project delivery across construction, infrastructure, or engineering.
• Identify missing or conflicting information and seek clarification.
• Strong organisational skills to maintain records, actions, and deadlines.
• Collaborate effectively with project teams, consultants and suppliers.
• Proactive in identifying issues and improving processes.
• Understanding of health and safety in design, CDM 2015 principles.
• Proficient in Excel and willing to learn new project systems.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate multidisciplinary design activities with the Design Manager.
• Maintain design deliverable schedules and action trackers.
• Work with external designers, clients, suppliers, and pre-construction teams to identify interfaces.
• Coordinate design submissions, track comments, RFIs, and close actions.
• Organise design coordination meetings and checks (IDC/IDR).
• Record proposed design changes and highlight impacts on scope, safety, cost and programme.

Skills

Design coordination

Project coordination

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Excel

Health and safety in design

Communication

Education

Relevant construction or engineering qualification or apprenticeship

Tools

Network Rail standards familiarity

Job description

Are you a proactive and organised team player? Can you bring structure, energy, and a practical approach to a fast-moving environment? Would you like to develop your career within a growing and ambitious business?
Story Contracting North West is looking for a Design Coordinator to join our Chorley or Carlisle office. You will become part of a supportive and growing team, with the opportunity to build strong relationships, develop your skills, solve challenges, and contribute to the continued success of our projects and business.

The Role:

As a Design Coordinator, you will help coordinate safe, buildable, and well-integrated designs for our projects, supporting the design process from development through to Approved for Construction (AFC) issue. You will bring together input from different disciplines, monitor design deliverables, and coordinate the resolution of interfaces and review comments with the responsible designers. Your contribution will help the wider business identify and manage design risks early, improve project certainty and reduce avoidable change and rework. By encouraging collaboration, maintaining clear design controls, and sharing accurate performance information, you will support better decision-making and help strengthen our reputation for delivering high-quality outcomes for our clients.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate multidisciplinary design activities and deliverables for assigned projects, working with the Design Manager to support agreed programme, safety, quality, and client requirements.
• Maintain design deliverable schedules, responsibility records and action trackers, monitoring progress against key milestones and escalating delays, missing information, and outstanding decisions.
• Work closely with external designers, client, specialist suppliers, pre-construction, and delivery teams to identify design interfaces and coordinate resolution by the responsible parties.
• Coordinate design submissions, track review comments, technical queries, and requests for information, and follow up responses and actions through to close-out.
• Organise design coordination meetings and support interdisciplinary checks and reviews (IDC/IDR), preparing review information, recording actions, and monitoring their completion.
• Record proposed design changes and highlight potential impacts on scope, safety, cost and programme to the Design Manager and relevant project leads.

What We’re Looking For:

Essential:

• Relevant experience within design management or project delivery across construction, infrastructure, or engineering sectors; working with technical information and project teams.
• An understanding of drawings, specifications, and design assurance processes, with the ability to identify missing or conflicting information and seek clarification.
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to maintain accurate records, track actions, manage competing priorities, and meet deadlines.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills when working with project teams, consultants, and specialist suppliers.
• A proactive approach to identifying issues, improving processes, and supporting successful design outcomes.
• An understanding of health and safety in design, design risk and relevant industry requirements including the principles of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015.
• Confidence using excel spreadsheets and other digital tools to track information and progress, with a willingness to learn new project systems.

Desirable:

• A relevant construction or engineering qualification or apprenticeship.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary design activities or collaborating with external designers, consultants, and specialist suppliers.
• Familiarity with Network Rail standards, procedures, and assurance requirements.

Why Apply?

At Story Contracting, we invest in our people. You’ll benefit from:

• Award-winning training and development opportunities
• Competitive salary, pension, and company car/allowance
• Health cash plan and wellbeing support
• Working from home (1 day per week) and agile working policies.
• Two paid volunteering days each year

Why Story Contracting?

Story Contracting is a privately‑owned, award‑winning infrastructure company who is financially secure and agile with a wide range of public, private and third sector clients who enjoy working with our talented and committed team. Our track record for delivery on time and to budget, safely and reliably, has meant repeat business from our clients, which is reflected in our motto of "Do It Right!"

Our values are at the heart of everything we do - the way we work and the behaviours we display. We believe that this is what makes Story Contracting and our people exceptional.

• GROUNDED - Everyone is equal at Story. We are down to earth and treat each other with respect.
• HARDWORKING - We all pull our weight and work hard for each other.
• PROUD - We are proud of our safety, our projects, our people, our clients, and the success we create together.
• FAMILY - We nurture, train, develop and keep our people safe, just like a family. We are inclusive and do the right thing for the business and its people.
• TRUSTED - What we say is what we do. Our clients, our people and our communities trust us to do it right.
• WINNERS - We are hungry for success and want to be the best performing contractor for our clients, our people, and our communities.

Find out more about what it’s like to be part of Team Story here. https://www.storycontracting.com/jobs/

Every Story Matters