Design Manager

TN United Kingdom; Rushden; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Design Manager to join their Strategic Projects business. This exciting role involves managing and delivering design information for major projects across various sectors, including Custodial and Healthcare. The ideal candidate will have experience in high-value design work and be adept at organizing and managing workloads. Join a team that values potential and transferable skills, and contribute to projects that make a difference. With a commitment to diversity and inclusion, this company offers a supportive environment where your skills can thrive.

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering complex design work from a contractor perspective.
• Ability to manage workloads and plan effectively.

Responsibilities

• Manage and deliver design information according to the design schedule.
• Provide design input during both preconstruction and construction stages.

Skills

Project Management

Design Management

Organizational Skills

Communication Skills

Job description

We're looking for Design Managers to join our Strategic Projects business at Kier Group. This role will work on a major project in one of our core sectors that include Custodial, Healthcare, Life Science, and Defence.

Location: Rushden, Northamptonshire.

Hours: Full Time, Permanent.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Design Manager, you'll be working within the Design team, supporting them on projects across a variety of different sectors including Commercial, Public Sector, and Health.

Your day to day will include:

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

What are we looking for?

This role of Design Manager is great for you if you have:

1. Experience of delivering high value, complex design work from the main contractor perspective.
2. Ability to organise, plan, programme, and manage workloads.
3. Experience of site/contract procedures would be an advantage.

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferable 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.

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.

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