Design Manager

Balfour Beatty; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Balfour Beatty seeks a Design Manager for the A57 Link Roads Scheme, responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of design during project phases. This role involves collaboration with various teams, managing proposals, and promoting sustainable practices in a pivotal infrastructure project.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

25 days paid annual leave

Family friendly policies

Pension plan

Share incentive plan

Volunteering leave

Recognition schemes

Qualifications

• Proven track record delivering design services on major infrastructure projects.
• Experience managing teams in a matrix environment.
• Strong working knowledge of current procurement routes and codes of practice.

Responsibilities

• Manage design proposals aligned with budget, quality, and safety objectives.
• Lead coordination of design teams and oversee technical approvals.
• Support BIM implementation and drive innovation across design packages.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

BIM knowledge

Report writing

Numerical analysis

Proactive mindset

Education

Membership of a relevant professional body (e.g. RIBA, CIBSE, IET)

Valid CSCS card

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

About the role

Are you a skilled Design Manager with a passion for delivering complex infrastructure projects? Join Balfour Beatty on the A57 Link Roads Scheme in Mottram, where you'll lead the design delivery process on a significant and high-impact highways project.

About the Role

As Design Manager, you will be responsible for the successful delivery of the contractor design elements during both pre-construction and construction phases. Working collaboratively with commercial, production, and engineering teams, you'll ensure that the design meets client requirements, legislative standards, and the highest safety and sustainability benchmarks.

What you'll be doing

Key Responsibilities

• Manage development and implementation of design proposals aligned with budget, quality, and safety objectives.
• Ensure designs are buildable, maintainable, energy efficient, and environmentally conscious.
• Lead coordination of internal and external design teams, including M&E disciplines and third-party consultants.
• Oversee subcontractor design packages and technical approvals.
• Engage with statutory authorities and stakeholders as required.
• Lead the production and monitoring of the design deliverables programme, ensuring timely reviews and approvals.
• Drive innovation and value engineering across design packages.
• Support BIM implementation and Lean construction practices.
• Promote continuous improvement, risk mitigation, and knowledge sharing across the business.
• Represent the project and business in relevant forums, such as Safety by Design & Engineering.

Who we're looking for

About You

• Proven track record of delivering design services on-site during the construction phase of major infrastructure projects.
• Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to manage teams in a matrix environment.
• Working knowledge of BIM and current procurement routes.
• Membership of a relevant professional body (e.g. RIBA, CIBSE, IET) is advantageous.
• Valid CSCS card.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and familiar with relevant codes of practice and regulations.
• Strong report writing and numerical analysis skills.
• A proactive, solution-focused mindset with a drive for innovation and excellence.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn't rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package that's right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more

About us

Balfour Beatty's Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: [e-mail]