Design Manager

Kier Group plc.; Manchester; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction firm in Manchester is seeking a Civil Engineer to manage design consultant appointments and ensure compliance with standards. You will lead design development, manage engineering deliverables, and chair design review meetings. The ideal candidate should have a degree in Civil Engineering and experience in a design/construction environment. Additional benefits include flexibility in working hours and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Qualifications

• Experience in a design or construction engineering environment.
• Ability to manage and communicate using electronic document control systems.
• Driving licence required for site meetings.

Responsibilities

• Manage design consultant appointments and compliance.
• Lead design development and ensure buildability between teams.
• Develop and maintain schedules and deliverables.
• Chair design review meetings and resolve interface issues.
• Manage design change through TQ process.

Skills

Civil Engineering

Design management

Communication skills

Document control systems

Education

Degree in Civil Engineering or similar

Job description

Hours: 42 hours per week – some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us. What will you be responsible for?

Responsibilities

• Managing design consultant appointments and input into supply chain contracts, ensuring appointed design consultants are carrying out their duties in line with their appointment, interrogating returns confirming compliance with standards and brief, producing design programmes, design scopes, design responsibility matrices, appointments and schedules
• Leading on design development and optioneering, providing a strong focus on buildability between construction and design teams selecting the most efficient and effective solutions, engaging with specialist suppliers both at tender and contract stage, contributing to and recording design decisions including decisions made to embed safe by design, buildability, value engineering, whole life cost and sustainability, recording best practice and lessons learned, providing input to and managing output from the change control process relating to the design and design supply chain, including leading value engineering on projects
• Identifying project inputs early by developing and maintaining survey and investigation schedules and associated deliverables, informing design development of permanent and temporary works, producing and maintaining an engineering deliverables schedule ensuring the timely production and approval of engineering deliverables
• Chairing and recording actions from design review meetings and design integration meetings, resolving interface issues between design and construction teams and closing out discipline specific technical interfaces, attending and providing discipline specific engineering input into interdisciplinary check meetings (IDC), resolving detailing issues requiring input from other parties (e.g. Client, contractors, sub‑contractors and fabricators)
• Maintaining register of TQs / RFIs and chasing close out of TQs / RFIs between BGCL, client and BGCL supply chain (designers and contractors), managing design change through the TQ process and seeking client approval, where required, communicating change to all parties

Qualifications

• A degree in Civil Engineering or a similar discipline.
• You are working in a Design or Construction engineering environment, are able to effectively manage and communicate information through electronic document control systems, can influence design development and manage the compliance during site delivery.
• Driving licence is needed to attend various meeting on sites and in offices.

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.