Design Manager

Kier Group; St. Neots; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Kier Group is seeking a Design Manager to join the Assured Delivery team on a nationwide basis. The role focuses on delivering design excellence across Transportation, Water, Environment and Energy sectors, coordinating designers, stakeholders and client teams.

You will manage design programmes, ensure buildability and quality standards, and drive innovation while contributing to a supportive, collaborative environment where your expertise is valued.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in an engineering discipline.
• Experience managing design for multi-disciplinary engineering and construction projects.
• Knowledge of CDM 2015 and design-related health and safety risk management.
• Strong technical and information management skills.
• Full driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Support the Assured Delivery team in delivering design excellence across sectors.
• Ensure design programmes and quality standards are met.
• Manage relationships with designers, stakeholders and client teams.
• Lead design review meetings and resolve design interfaces between teams.
• Collaborate with commercial teams and manage the design supply chain.

Skills

Design management

CDM 2015

Health & safety risk management

Information management

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Driving licence

Job description

We're looking for a Design Manager to join our Assured Delivery team based Nationwide within the Transportation Rail team. Kier Design are a highly regarded Tier 1 Contractor, with a 750 plus strong design consultancy team, recognised as a Top 30 employer on Glassdoor.

Location: Nationwide

Hours: 42 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role

• A holder of a Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) in an engineering discipline
• Experienced in managing design for multi-disciplinary engineering and construction projects
• Knowledgeable about CDM 2015 and design-related health and safety risk management
• Someone with strong technical and information management skills
• In possession of a Full driving licence

What will you be responsible for?

As a Design Manager, you'll be working within the Assured Delivery team, supporting them in delivering design excellence across a diverse range of industries, including Transportation, Water, Environment and Energy. In this role, you'll play a key part in ensuring design programmes and quality standards are met, whilst managing relationships with designers, stakeholders and client teams. This position offers genuine variety, the chance to contribute to innovative solutions, and the opportunity to develop your career in a supportive, collaborative environment where your expertise will be valued.

Your Day To Day Will Include

• Supporting tenders and Early Contractor Involvement with technical input and management of innovative, compliant design solutions
• Producing and maintaining design programmes, scopes, responsibility matrices and engineering deliverables schedules
• Managing design development and ensuring buildability between construction and design teams to achieve efficient solutions
• Chairing design review meetings, resolving interface issues and closing out technical interfaces between teams
• Collaborating with commercial teams and managing the performance of the internal and external design supply chain

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.