Design Coordinator — Hybrid Work & Career Growth

Story Contracting Limited; Ovingdean; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Award-winning training and development

Health cash plan and wellbeing support

Company car/allowance

Working from home 1 day per week

Volunteering days

Job summary

Story Contracting Limited is seeking a Design Co-ordinator to join our Chorley or Carlisle offices. You will coordinate safe, buildable, well-integrated designs from development to AFC, gathering input from multiple disciplines and ensuring timely delivery.

You will manage design interfaces, monitor deliverables, and support better decision-making to strengthen our reputation for delivering high-quality outcomes for clients.

Qualifications

• Experience in design management or project delivery across construction, infrastructure, or engineering sectors.
• Understanding of drawings, specifications, and design assurance processes.
• Strong organisational skills with ability to manage records, actions and deadlines.
• Effective communication and collaboration with project teams, consultants and suppliers.
• Proactive approach to identify issues and improve design outcomes.
• Knowledge of Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate multidisciplinary design activities and deliverables with Design Manager to support programme, safety, quality and client requirements.
• Maintain design deliverable schedules, responsibility records and action trackers; escalate delays and missing information.
• Collaborate with external designers, clients, suppliers, pre-construction and delivery teams to identify interfaces and coordinate resolution.
• Coordinate design submissions, track review comments, queries and information requests through to close-out.
• Organise design coordination meetings and support IDC/IDR checks and reviews.
• Record proposed design changes and highlight potential impacts to design manager and project leads.

Skills

Design coordination

Project delivery

Organisational skills

Communication

Excel proficiency

Education

Construction/Engineering qualification

Tools

Network Rail standards

Excel

Job description

Story Contracting Limited is seeking a Design Co-ordinator to join our Chorley or Carlisle offices. You will coordinate safe, buildable, well-integrated designs from development to AFC, gathering input from multiple disciplines and ensuring timely delivery.

You will manage design interfaces, monitor deliverables, and support better decision-making to strengthen our reputation for delivering high-quality outcomes for clients.