Graduate Project/Design Manager

Buro Happold Limited; Bath, City Of London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Buro Happold Limited invites applications for a Graduate Project/Design Manager to join our Projects team in Bath and London. The role focuses on ensuring design projects run smoothly, meeting deadlines, and coordinating multidisciplinary teams with practical guidance on contracts and procurement.

As a graduate, you will gain exposure to Battersea Power Station, Temple Quarter Campus, and Everton stadium projects, building experience in design management, planning, risk mitigation, and

Qualifications

• Proven interest in project design management and multidisciplinary coordination.
• Ability to work across design streams and meet deadlines.
• Comfort discussing complex technical issues and guiding teams.

Responsibilities

• Communicate effectively with senior staff and stakeholders across practice.
• Plan ahead to meet deadlines across multiple projects.
• Coordinate with design specialists to optimize delivery.
• Demonstrate initiative and proactive problem solving.
• Maintain organised project documentation and progress updates.
• Deliver high-quality design management support to projects.

Skills

Proficient communication

Organised and plan ahead

Multi-project coordination

MS Office (Excel)

Proactive attitude

Problem spotting

Independent working

Delivery ownership

Education

Design Management

Project Management

Architectural Science

Engineering Design/Construction Management

Tools

MS Office Suite

Job description

Graduate Project/Design ManagerWe are looking for a Graduate to join our Projects team in Bath and London. With a world class reputation, our creativity and our people have delivered positive change to clients, the environment, and communities alike. If you want to be part of something bigger, this is your chance.

What is Project Design Management? We ensure our client’s design projects run smoothly with the help of our expertise in hitting deadlines, mitigating risk and coordinating specialists. Our project design management services include:

• A single point of contact fully informed on the progress of the whole multidisciplinary team
• Guidance on which specialists your project needs and when
• Clear guidance on any complex technical issues
• Maintaining a realistic commercial framework without compromising creativity
• An overview of your project’s progress, risks and timetable across multiple design work streams
• Advice on contract and procurement approaches
• Improving team cohesion, mitigating risks and addressing potential problems early
• Effective change management

See more about our Project Design Management team.

What sort of projects would I work on?

• Battersea Power Station Development The transformation of the 42-acre brownfield site around the formerly redundant Battersea Power Station is one of the most ambitious regeneration projects London has seen in decades. Electric Boulevard, featuring vibrant rows of independent shops with stylish apartments above, will be at the heart of the new community.
• Temple Quarter Emprise Campus (TQEC)The University of Bristol’s new Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus sits at the heart of the city’s vibrant new Temple Quarter and adjacent to the main railway terminus, Bristol Temple Meads. With improvements to the train station planned, as well as new housing, infrastructure, retail and leisure areas, the Temple Quarter initiative aims to create 22,000 jobs over the lifetime of the project.
• New Stadium for EvertonTo give fans the modern matchday experience they expect, Everton is putting everything that makes Goodison Park so special – the character, camaraderie and shared sense of tradition – into creating an inspirational new place to play and watch football. Set on Liverpool’s waterfront, the planned stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock will reinvigorate a semi-derelict site less than two miles along the Mersey from the famous Royal Liver Building.

What skills can you bring to the role?

• Proficient communication skills, comfortable conversing with senior staff members across the practice
• Organised and able to plan ahead to meet deadlines
• Ability to work across multiple projects and prioritise tasks appropriately
• Intermediate level skills in Microsoft office especially Excel.
• Proactive and approachable attitude when dealing with internal and external customers
• Sufficiently perceptive to spot possible problems and take appropriate action to address or elevate as needed
• Able to work independently and demonstrate initiative
• Enthusiastic about delivering excellent performance; takes responsibility for own delivery
• Can identify where processes may benefit from improvement

What degree would I have studied?

• Design Management
• Project Management
• Architectural Science
• Engineering DesignConstruction Management

A place for everyone

Buro Happold values an individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of how you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds, and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing differences allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.