Design Manager

Kier Group; Chesterfield; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Kier Group is seeking a Design Manager to join the Severn Trent Water framework based in Sheffield. You will lead design programmes and coordinate internal and external designers, stakeholders and client teams to deliver compliant, innovative solutions.

The role focuses on buildability, budgets, value engineering, and adherence to standards, legislation and Safe by Design principles, with a collaborative, cross-disciplinary approach across projects valued from several million to over £200m.

Qualifications

• This role requires proven experience in managing design teams and coordinating with clients, staff and suppliers.
• Ability to develop design programmes and manage design development with buildability focus.
• Experience in leading value engineering and ensuring compliance with relevant standards and legislation.

Responsibilities

• Manage design consultant appointments and ensure compliance with briefs and standards.
• Develop design programmes, scopes and responsibility matrices, coordinating design development.
• Lead value engineering and ensure designs meet safety, sustainability and lifecycle cost goals.
• Chair design review meetings and resolve interfaces to deliver design information on time.

Skills

Design management

Stakeholder engagement

Buildability focus

Budget awareness

Job description

We're looking for a Design Manager to join our Severn Trent Water framework based in Sheffield

Location: Sheffield
Hours: 45 per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

You'll have the opportunity to work across a wide range of projects from £5M - £200M in value across the Severn Trent Water framework. You'll play a key role in ensuring design programmes and quality standards are met through the effective management of external and internal designers, stakeholders and client teams. This position offers genuine scope to make an impact whilst working collaboratively across teams to deliver innovative and compliant solutions.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Design Manager, you'll be working within the Severn Trent Water framework team, supporting them in delivering design and technical excellence across a portfolio of projects.

Your day to day will include:

• Managing design consultant appointments and ensuring compliance with standards and project briefs
• Developing design programmes, scopes, and responsibility matrices whilst managing design development with a strong focus on buildability
• Leading value engineering initiatives and contributing to design decisions that embed Safe by Design, sustainability and whole life cost principles
• Ensuring designs are compliant with relevant legislation, technical requirements and client standards
• Chairing design review meetings, resolving interface issues between teams and managing the timely delivery of design information

What are we looking for?

This role of Design Manager is great for you if:

• You have proven experience in managing design teams and maintaining effective working relationships with clients, staff and key suppliers
• You can support commercial teams in appointing and managing professional engineering and design services whilst proactively monitoring budgets
• You have a collaborative approach, working closely with teams, clients and stakeholders to reach innovative solutions

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.