Design Manager

Sisk; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction company in Milton Keynes is seeking a Design Manager/Senior Design Manager for a healthcare project. The role involves managing design requirements, overseeing teams, and ensuring compliance with building regulations. Ideal candidates will have experience in design management and team leadership. The position offers a competitive salary, company car or allowance, healthcare, and flexible working options.

Benefits

Competitive Salary with yearly increase

Company Car or Car Allowance

Healthcare

26 days holiday (option to purchase 5 more)

Employer pension

Death in service – life assurance

Competitive mileage rate

Travel expenses

Flexible and remote working

Enhanced parental leave

Professional and Educational development

Qualifications

• Experienced as a Design Manager/Senior Design Manager, ideally in Healthcare.
• Manage a full design team and oversee design managers and coordinators.
• Strong organizational and planning skills.

Responsibilities

• Select and agree on the design team's responsibilities.
• Advise on selection of specialist sub-contractors.
• Hold and minute regular design meetings.

Skills

Design management

Change control

Building Regulations knowledge

Project management

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

View Point for Projects

Job description

Overview

We are recruiting for a Design Manager/Senior Design Manager to join our UK South Construction division on a Healthcare project. To fully understand and manage the design requirements of the tender/project and to provide assistance and guidance to design co-ordinators where and when appropriate. John Sisk & Son have been building excellence as a family-owned international construction company by offering trust, certainty and value to our clients whilst being at the heart of change.

Responsibilities

• Have input into the selection of the design team.
• Agree the design team’s responsibilities and scope of services
• Agree tender and construction programme with the design team
• Hold and minute regular design meetings and involve critical sub-contractors as necessary
• Advise on the selection of specialist sub-contractors
• Consider alternative building methods, sub-contractor and materials

Experience

The ideal candidate would be an experienced Design Manager/Senior Design Manager with strong internal package experience, change control, ideally with BSA experience/Healthcare experience.

Qualifications

• Be able to manage a full design team and oversee design manager and design coordinators
• Experience of site/contract procedures
• Ability to organise, plan, programme and manage workloads
• Good working knowledge of Building Regulations and Planning Permission procedures.
• Be able to use Microsoft Word / Excel / PowerPoint / View Point for Projects (4Projects)

Additional Information

• Competitive Salary with yearly increase
• Company Car or Car Allowance
• Healthcare
• 26 days holiday (option to purchase 5 more)
• Employer pension
• Death in service – life assurance
• Competitive mileage rate
• Travel expenses
• Flexible and remote working
• Enhanced parental leave
• Professional and Educational development

Our people are at the heart of our success and our proposition to them is work with purpose, have time for life, build a career with no limits and surround yourself with great people. Our Internal Recruitment Team fulfil all vacancies on a direct basis. Unsolicited contact by unapproved agencies (sharing speculative CVs) will not be accepted and introductory fees will not apply. The full job specification is available on request At Sisk we are committed to attracting and hiring diverse talent into our organisation. We know the confidence gap and imposter phenomenon can get in the way of meeting remarkable candidates. We also know that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't feel they meet all the criteria. Give your transferable skills the chance to tell the full story. It’s not all about your technical expertise. Don’t hold back, we’d love to hear from you.