Design Manager

Kier Group; Cheswick Green; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction firm is seeking a Design Manager or Senior Design Manager to join their Strategic Projects business in Warwick. This role involves managing and delivering design information throughout project stages, collaborating with stakeholders, and ensuring high-quality design outputs. Candidates should have experience in delivering complex design work and construction projects, with strong organizational skills. This role offers long-term career opportunities in a rewarding environment.

Qualifications

• Experience of site/contract procedures would be an advantage.
• Experience in Design Management capacity.

Responsibilities

• Management and delivery of design information.
• Design input at both preconstruction and construction stages.
• Production of design programmes and schedules.

Skills

Experience of delivering high value, complex design work

Ability to organise, plan, programme and manage workloads

Experience working on construction projects

Job description

We're looking for a Design Manager or Senior Design Manager to join our Strategic Projects business at Kier Group. Kier Strategic Projects are a specialist business unit that manage and deliver major projects across our core sectors of Science, Health, Commercial, Defence and Custodial.

Location: Warwick, West Midlands
Contract: Full Time, Permanent

What will you be responsible for?

• Management and delivery of design information in accordance with the agreed design programme and deliverable schedule.
• Design input at both preconstruction and construction stage of projects.
• The production of design programmes, design scopes, design responsibility matrices, appointments, schedules.
• Attending/chair necessary meetings and workshops with internal and external stakeholders.

What are we looking for?

• Experience of delivering high value, complex design work from the main contractor perspective.
• Ability to organise, plan, programme and manage workloads.
• Experience working on construction projects in a Design Management capacity.
• Experience of site/contract procedures would be an advantage.

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

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.

Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's conviction history or the details of any convictions disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier #LI-AS2.