Design Manager

Kier Group; Witham; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Kier Group is seeking a Design Manager for their Eastern South Construction team in Witham, Essex. The role involves managing design processes on a major education project, ensuring compliance with building regulations, and delivering innovative solutions. Ideal candidates will possess strong planning, organisational, and management skills, along with experience in complex design work.

Benefits

Diverse and inclusive work environment

Variety of benefits tailored to individual needs

Qualifications

• Experience from the main contractor perspective essential.
• Understanding of Building Regulations and Planning Permission procedures required.
• Experience with site/contract procedures preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage the design process during pre-construction and construction phases.
• Ensure innovative and cost-effective solutions in the design.
• Drive design issues within strict timescales.

Skills

Organisational skills

Planning

Management

Education

Experience delivering high value, complex design work

Job description

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We're looking for a Design Manager to join our Eastern South Construction team based in Witham, Essex.

Location: Witham, Essex

What will you be responsible for?

As a Design Manager, you'll be working within the Eastern South team in Witham, Essex team, initially on a large Education project.

• Manage the design process during the pre-construction and as required, the construction phase.
• Interrogation of enquiry documents, in the form of an Employer's Requirements.
• Production of a Contractor's Proposal document in liaison with other internal departments.
• Manage our design process via external consultants.
• Drive innovative and cost effective solutions into the design.
• Progress design issues within a strict timescale & ensure designers meet information delivery dates.
• Attend tender launch /tender adjudication and launch meetings as required.
  
  
  

What are we looking for?

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

• Experience of delivering high value, complex design work from the main contractor perspective
• Ability to organise, plan, programme and manage workloads
• Understanding of Building Regulations and Planning Permission procedures
• Understanding of different Client procurement routes
• Experience of site/contract procedures would be an advantage
  
  
  

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

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology

• Industries

  Construction

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